World Aug 17 France Offers Few Troops to Lebanese Peace Force President Jacques Chirac said France would only deploy 400 troops to Lebanon even as U.N. officials said they hoped for more troops from the country slated to lead the force to end the clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah militants.
Nation Aug 15 Lebanese Refugees Return Home as Tense Cease-fire Holds Israel began pulling its troops out of southern Lebanon Tuesday and made plans to hand over territory to U.N. peacekeeping forces and the Lebanese army on the second day of a delicate cease-fire tested by skirmishes and rocket fire.
Politics Aug 14 Photographs Show Cuba's Castro Ailing, But Alert After Surgery Cuba's Communist daily newspaper published photos of President Fidel Castro in his bed during a visit with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in town for Fidel Castro's 80th birthday Sunday.
Nation Aug 10 Suicide Bomber Attacks Shiite Shrine in Iraq A suicide attacker detonated his explosives outside a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, killing at least 35 people and injuring at least 122, the Iraqi army said.
World Aug 10 Terrorism Alert Raised to High After Bomb Plot Foiled British authorities on Thursday arrested 21 people reportedly planning to detonate explosives aboard aircraft flying from the UK, prompting U.S. officials to raise the terror alert to "red," its highest level yet, for commercial flights from Britain.
Politics Aug 09 Leftists Blockade Foreign Banks in Mexico to Protest Vote Recount Mexico began a partial recount of presidential ballots Wednesday, while protesters blockaded the offices of three major foreign-owned banks, demanding a full recount of the July 2 election.
World Aug 08 U.N. Works to Hammer Out Terms of Mideast Truce Arab leaders met with U.N. officials Tuesday to seek an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon as part of a U.S.-French draft resolution outlining terms of a truce between Israel and Hezbollah.
Economy Aug 07 Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown May Force Government to Open Emergency Stockpile Britain's BP PLC, a major international oil company, was forced to begin shutting down production at the largest oil field in the United States on Sunday.
Politics Aug 07 Amid Corruption Probe, Ohio's Bob Ney Drops Out of Race Dogged by a federal corruption investigation, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, announced Monday he was abandoning his re-election campaign for his family's sake.
Nation Aug 03 Daily Attacks Mar NATO Takeover of Southern Afghanistan Attacks against NATO forces in southern Afghanistan killed 21 civilians and four Canadian troops Thursday.