Today's News

E.U. says it won't support military action against Iran

US lawyer seeks to sue US over Iran threats

Crude oil price drops below $127 a barrel

OBAMA FAKING IT

A private, blunter Bush declares: 'Wall Street got drunk'

Hurricane Dolly Set To Hit Texas Coast

Economic News

Oil, Gold, Crops Drop as Stronger Dollar Cuts Commodity Demand

Oil Market Bill Touches Off Partisan Blame Game in Senate

Oil-shale debate moves West

Woes Afflicting Mortgage Giants Raise Loan Rates

Paulson & Co. Plans Fund to Provide Capital to Financial Firms

UAL rallies as investors applaud latest moves: United parent secures a $1 billion boost to liquidity, posts solid results

Miscellaneous Non-Integrating States News

Pakistan: PPP security chief is shot dead

Lebanon: Government wants a national dialogue to discuss Hizbullah's weapons

African Continent: 15m Africans on brink of hunger

Afghanistan: NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

Somalia: Hardline Islamist takes over Somali opposition

Korean Peninsula: Rice to push N Korea on disarmament

Korean Peninsula: Six-nations talks on NKorea denuclearisation start

Non-Integrating States News - Iraq (Mystery Babylon)

Iraq plans crackdown in Diyala Province

British PM Brown predicts major Iraq troop withdrawal by 2009

'Political solution' needed in Iraq says Obama

Iraq's stance may boost Obama

Iraqis cast doubt on regional elections this year

Pack your bags for Baghdad? Iraq looks to tourism

Bush may cut U.S. troop levels: Seems likely to order thousands more soldiers home by year's end

President Ahmadinejad: Iran ready for fair talk

Obama In Israel: Iran's nuclear program problem for entire world

Iran's president vows no retreat in nuclear stalemate

Israeli - Palestinian War

Prepare For Change: Barack Obama won’t be lying to us, but he won’t be telling us the truth either

Obama arrives in Israel; justifies attack on suspected Syrian nuclear site

Obama vows to tighten Israel ties as marathon talks begin

Israel has no reason to fear Obama

Bulldozer welcome to Obama: Palestinian terrorist seized bulldozer and drove it on rampage before being shot dead

'Reconsider employing East Jerusallem Arabs': In aftermath of latest bulldozer attack

Shin Bet Security Sources: East Jerusalem security measures ineffective

Palestinian Authority Reveals: Israel pardoned another 24 wanted Fatah men

FM Livni calls for national unity gov't

Russian President Medvedev’s Message to Ambassadors: Russia now ready to bring the world to its knees

United Airlines to slash 7,000 jobs by 2009

Apple hints at something new, something really exciting in September

Presidential Politics

McCain slams American media's love affair with Obama

McCain works hard to polish skills as orator

McCain calls Obama's war strategy 'wrong'

Where's Obama? War zone trip typical of low-key congressional visits; hard for press to cover

Eventually, we will all hate Obama too: British viewpoint

Wolfowitz says US will OK Taiwan arms deal

Europe's worst genocide since Hitler: How Dutch peacekeepers looked on as Karadzic's men butchered 8,000 at Srebrenica

U.S. depicts Salim Hamdan as insider during Guantanamo war crimes trial