Without a shift in the Israeli policy that doesn???t allow building materials into Gaza, much of the $2.8 billion that Palestinians hope to raise at a donors??? conference Monday will be limited to humanitarians needs.
The government also agreed to loosen the terms of its first loan to the insurer, which will report a $62 billion quarterly loss on Monday, people involved in the discussions said.
Factories and services are faltering, the currency is wilting and a government default seems possible, posing a real threat to other European economies.
AP - Struggling insurer American International Group Inc. will receive up to $30 billion in additional federal assistance in the fourth government rescue of the company, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Sunday.
AP - A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of the Southeast with snow Sunday before barreling toward the Northeast, where officials prepared snowplows and road-salt for a wintery assault.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first foray into Middle East politics as U.S. secretary of state, arrived at an international donors conference Monday with a U.S. pledge of about $300 million in humanitarian aid for the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Two NFL players are among a group of four boaters reported missing off Florida's Gulf Coast, officials say. Detroit Lions defensive end Corey Smith and Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper disappeared while on a fishing trip on Saturday. "It feels like my greatest fear coming true -- it doesn't feel real," Cooper's wife, Rebekah, told WTSP.
A snowstorm that could last up to 18 hours is headed toward southern New England, and Boston faces up to 15 inches of snow, the National Weather Service says. Monday's commuters could face a nightmare with blowing and drifting snow. Meanwhile, winter storm warnings straddled Interstate 95 from Maine to the Carolinas, including parts of Georgia and Alabama.
The "most worrisome" part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.