AP - Negotiators from six nations agreed have agreed on steps to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament, opening the final phase in tortuous efforts to rid the North of nuclear weapons.
AFP - Lebanon announced a 30-member national unity government on Friday tasked with resolving the country's worst political crisis since a 1975-1990 civil war.
AFP - International Criminal Court prosecutors will seek the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir for genocide in Darfur, it emerged Friday, prompting Khartoum to warn of a threat to peace efforts.
Reuters - A former U.S. Defense Department
analyst was sentenced on Friday to nearly 5 years in prison for
passing classified information about Taiwan to a Chinese
government agent, the Justice Department said. -- read full article
Reuters - The U.S. military has identified the
remains of two soldiers who were kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007
after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad, the
Pentagon said on Friday.
Reuters - Barack Obama raised well over $30
million in June, a top aide said on Friday, outpacing his
Republican rival John McCain again as the Democratic White
House hopeful's fundraising picked up after a lull in May.
Reuters - President George W. Bush urged
Congress on Friday to act before its August break to open new
areas for oil exploration in the United States to help ease
record high oil prices.
Reuters - Apple Inc's new iPhone made
its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores
in Asia and queues forming in Europe and the United States.
Reuters - Oil prices jumped $5 to a record high
above $147 a barrel on Friday amid growing worries of threats
to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and a strike by Brazilian oil
workers next week.
Reuters - Lebanon ended weeks of wrangling on
Friday and formed a unity government in which Hezbollah and its
allies hold effective veto power, as agreed under a deal that
ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country.
Reuters - Fear spread on Friday that the U.S.
housing crisis would drag down the nation's major mortgage
finance agencies, and the government offered no hint that it
would swiftly step in to help. -- read full article
AP - Unable for weeks to agree on terms for a new contract, Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild have now found themselves unable to agree on whether negotiations will continue.
AP - The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
