AP - Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar shells Saturday as the government launched a major offensive against Taliban fighters threatening the main city in the country's volatile northwest, officials said.
AP - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday sought the love of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship with a pivotal swing-voting constituency.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed North Korea Saturday to take the next step and give up its atomic weaponry after it disclosed some nuclear secrets and demolished part of its reactor.
AFP - Counting was under way in Zimbabwe on Saturday with President Robert Mugabe certain of victory after a one-man election marked by intimidation of voters and branded a sham by the opposition and the West.
Reuters - The commander of the Revolutionary
Guards said Iran would impose controls on shipping in the vital
Gulf oil transit route if the Islamic Republic came under
attack, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The United States and the European
Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security
agencies obtain private information like credit card
transactions and travel histories about people on the other
side of the Atlantic, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
Reuters - The Taliban has created a "resilient
insurgency" in Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase
the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Reuters - North Korea did not answer U.S.
suspicions of enriching uranium and proliferating technology
when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans this week,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday.
Reuters - Votes were being counted on Saturday in
Zimbabwe's single candidate presidential election and state
media predicted a landslide victory for President Robert Mugabe
despite reports of low turnout in many areas.
AP - Roger Federer's next opponent at Wimbledon is the last man to win the title before the Swiss star began his run of five straight championships. And beyond that could be a matchup with the last player to beat him at Wimbledon six years ago.
AP - Steven Tyler sought the "safe environment" of rehab last month to recover from more than just surgery — the Aerosmith frontman now says was fighting a dependency on pain and sleep medication.
AP - A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday — undone by a burrowing muskrat.
