AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.

AP - As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.

AFP - One of the two French students murdered in a frenzied knife attack in London in June was due to be buried in the northern French city of Amiens later Wednesday, his mother said.

AP - Paraguay's new president is replacing the nation's police commander four days into the new administration.

Reuters - A double car bombing in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, a day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy, the Algerian press agency APS said quoting the Interior Ministry.

AFP - Thailand will deport former glam rocker Gary Glitter to Britain "as soon as possible," the immigration chief said Wednesday, a day after his release from a Vietnamese prison where he served time for child sex offences.