AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy energetically greeted President Bush on Saturday for private talks, the latest sign of the warming in U.S.-European relations that Bush has touted all week in his travels abroad.
AP - Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown moments on his hot seat.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe raised the spectre of war on Friday if his arch-rival triumphs in a June 27 election, while the opposition accused authorities of trying to "cripple" their campaign.
AFP - Irish voters dealt a stunning blow to the European Union's grand reform plans Friday by rejecting a new treaty and plunging the bloc into a new crisis.
Reuters - The U.S. general who recently handed
over command of NATO troops in Afghanistan cast doubt on Friday
on the ability of Pakistan's Frontier Corps paramilitary force
to combat Islamist militants.
Reuters - The EU's top diplomat said he would hand
Iran a generous offer on Saturday aimed at resolving a
deepening dispute over its nuclear ambitions that has helped
push up oil prices to record highs.
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
Guantanamo prisoners have constitutional rights has
fundamentally changed the rules for trying them and could bring
down the special war crimes court, defense lawyers said.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said
on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he
loses a June 27 presidential run-off vote.
Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said
on Friday talks with the United States on a long-term security
pact were at a stalemate because of U.S. demands that
encroached on Iraq's sovereignty.
Reuters - Irish voters rejected a treaty on Friday
to overhaul the European Union's unwieldy institutions, putting
the entire bloc's reform plan in peril and humiliating
Ireland's political leaders.
Reuters - Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain failed to
agree on Friday on holding a series of face-to-face town hall
meetings and each side blamed the other for an inability to
reach an accord.
Reuters - Officials in Iowa's capital
city urged residents threatened by the rising Des Moines River
to evacuate on Friday, calling the situation "extremely
dangerous."
AP - The jury in the R. Kelly child pornography case has reached a verdict after less than a day of deliberations. Judge Vincent Gaughan is scheduled to read the verdict Friday afternoon.
