AP - Struggling homeowners who can't afford their mortgages and banks facing big losses would get government help under a foreclosure rescue that has broad bipartisan support.
AFP - Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed Palestinian militant on the border in the Gaza Strip Thursday, the first fatality of a fragile three-week-old truce, prompting retaliatory rocket fire.
AFP - Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition held talks in South Africa Thursday for the first time since Robert Mugabe's one-man election ahead of an expected UN vote on new international sanctions.
Reuters - Georgia recalled its ambassador
from Moscow on Thursday after Russia said it had sent its
fighter jets into its neighbor's airspace to prevent Georgian
troops attacking a separatist region.
Reuters - An accused
September 11 conspirator told the U.S. military war court at
Guantanamo on Thursday that he should have access to classified
evidence against him, arguing that if he is executed the
secrets will be safer than in the hands of the FBI or CIA.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate
John McCain raised $22 million for his White House bid in June
and had nearly $27 million in the bank at the end of the month,
campaign manager Rick Davis said on Thursday.
Reuters - The Czech Republic protested to Russia
on Thursday over what it called threats following the signing
of a pact this week to host part of a U.S. missile defense
shield.
Reuters - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
pledged on Thursday to boost ties with Iraq and urged the
region to do more to help the Baghdad government rebuild after
years of war.
Reuters - Police detained four suspects and
patrolled the high-walled perimeter of the U.S. consulate in
Istanbul on Thursday after 3 policemen and 3 gunmen were killed
in what a minister said was a suicide attack.
Reuters - Policy-makers said on Thursday they
were doing everything possible to restore calm to financial
markets, but stressed to lawmakers that a longer-term
regulatory overhaul was vital to avert future crises. -- read full article
Reuters - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on
Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded
Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.
AP - Colorado's Matt Holliday will replace injured Chicago Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano in the National League starting lineup for Tuesday's All-Star game at Yankee Stadium.
AP - Christie Brinkley's lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end Thursday when lawyers for the former supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children.
AP - It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be. -- read full article
