By DAN BILEFSKY By Dan Bilefsky The New York Times TBILISI, Georgia Hundreds of Russian troops retreated from checkpoints across western Georgia on Saturday ahead of a deadline for their withdrawal brokered by the European Union.

By Dan Bilefsky and Bostjan Videmsek Demonstrators attacked the U.S. Embassy here and set part of it ablaze Thursday as tens of thousands of angry Serbs took to the streets of Belgrade to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence. Witnesses said that at least 300 rioters broke into the U.S.

By Judy Dempsey and Dan Bilefsky Trying to gain more time to find a compromise over Iran's nuclear program, Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy minister, and Ali Larijani, the Iranian nuclear negotiator, postponed a meeting scheduled for Thursday.