ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded on Thursday by a car bomb which ripped through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the local governor said.

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Washington demanded on Friday that Russia pull its troops out of Georgia “now”, but Moscow said it would be another 10 days before the bulk of its force left Georgian soil.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic got his wish for a different judge on Thursday when the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia assigned his war crimes case to a new chamber on procedural grounds.