The Pentagon on Wednesday requested new bids on a $35 billion contract for aerial-refueling tankers, and Boeing supporters on Capitol Hill said the highly technical document apparently favored a European airplane.
CONFLICT IN IRAQ
After weeks of late-night negotiations and under intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi lawmakers failed to pass a much-debated provincial elections law Wednesday before adjourning for the month.
THE ARCTIC
A new cold war is breaking out in the race for Arctic oil, natural gas and minerals, and it involves front-line icebreakers. Russia has seven and the United States has three, if you count one that's laid up in Seattle and won't be seaworthy for a year.
When Regina Molokomme's father, stepmother and brother died of AIDS, those setbacks propelled the South African educator out of her comfortable situation and into a life dedicated to helping others cope with the disease.
GERMANY | NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
Germany's allies are dismayed that the German government has granted a German firm permission to supply three natural gas plants to Iran at the same time they're trying to pressure Iran into suspending its nuclear program, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday.
CHINA
As tens of thousands of foreign journalists arrive to test China's pledges to respect media freedom during the Olympic Games, the nation offered apologies Tuesday for the beatings that police gave two Japanese journalists who were covering a deadly assault by separatists.
MOSCOW
Russian mourners braved heavy rain Tuesday to file past the body of former Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who lay in an open coffin at the Russian Academy of Sciences, flanked by an honor guard of four Russian soldiers.
THE OLYMPICS
With four days left before the start of the 2008 Summer Games, Chinese officials have not lived up to key promises they made to win the right to host the Olympics, including widening media freedoms, cleaning up their capital city's polluted air and respecting human rights.
CHINA
China said Monday that two assailants in a truck mowed down a group of jogging policemen, then tossed grenades and slashed gasping survivors with knives in an attack that left 16 officers dead in this restive Muslim region in the nation's far west.
IRAN
World powers agreed Monday to toughen U.N. sanctions against Iran after the Islamic Republic failed to accept by the weekend deadline a proposal aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear program, the State Department said Monday.
OLYMPICS | CHINA PREPARES
On Friday evening, as princes, kings and presidents look on, China will fill the sky over its capital with an awesome display of fireworks and make its case to the world that it was no mistake to award Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympics.
A lawyer for a Guantánamo Bay detainee appealed to Britain's High Court on Friday for the release of secret government documents that he says could raise questions about whether evidence in his client's upcoming trial was obtained by torture.
It seemed like another routine trip as the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq boarded his helicopter in Amara, where a battalion of U.S. troops is based.
ISRAEL
Embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday that he will resign in September, bringing a premature end to his hopes of leading Israel into a stable era of peace with its Arab neighbors.
CHINA | THE OLYMPICS
The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite promising repeatedly that the foreign news media could ''report freely'' during the Games, Olympics officials acknowledged Wednesday.
IRAQ
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr on Wednesday offered full support for Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's government if it refuses to sign an agreement President Bush has sought to allow semi-permanent stationing of U.S. troops in Iraq. Sadr warned at the same time that he would oppose any agreement between Iraq and the United States.
CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Iraqi infantry, supported by artillery, the Iraqi air force and U.S. forces, on Tuesday began what was described as a major operation in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. Iraqi forces said they had encountered no resistance to the crackdown, which the army had announced six days earlier.
CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Iraqi infantry, supported by artillery elements of the Iraqi air force and U.S. forces, began a major operation in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, early Tuesday morning. As many as 30,000 troops from the 4th and 8th divisions of the Iraqi army are already in place, Ali Ghaidan, the commander of Iraqi ground troops in that province, announced.
OLYMPICS
Activists savor the chance to steal the spotlight during the Olympic Games and air their grievances. They would like to unfurl banners, streak across playing fields and hack into stadium screens.
PAKISTAN
An unmanned U.S. aircraft blasted missiles Monday at a religious school in Pakistan's remote tribal area and may have killed a senior al Qaeda explosives expert who once oversaw the manufacture of crude chemical weapons at a camp in Afghanistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials said.
