After Netanyahu's visit to Washington on Tuesday, the US may pressure Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to drop his precondition for face-to-face talks with the Israelis: a permanent settlement freeze.
Amanda Knox will celebrate her 23rd birthday in a sweltering Italian prison. Her mother and sister have brought food and gifts. Amanda Knox's mother is in Italy to face charges that she defamed the Italian police.
The Indian government must divert funds from more critical poverty alleviation measures to sustain fuel subsidies that primarily benefit the middle and upper classes.
A majority of the 10 suspects have agreed to plead guilty in what is believed to be an effort to facilitate a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States.
The three men were suspected of having links to Al Qaeda in a terrorism conspiracy tied to plots in the United States and Britain, police officials said.
AP - The largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion Thursday, with up to 10 guilty pleas expected in New York by defendants accused of spying for Russia in exchange for the release of convicted Russian spies. A Russian convicted of spying for the United States was reportedly plucked from a Moscow prison and flown to Vienna.
AP - New claims for unemployment benefits dropped sharply last week, a sign that layoffs could be slowing. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing jobless aid because Congress has yet to pass an extension of benefits.
AP - Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested Thursday for what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to bomb New York's subway and blow up a shopping mall in England.
Anna Chapman, the sexy redhead accused Russian spy whose good looks and party-hopping made headlines, will appear in New York court today and then head directly to the airport to fly back to Moscow, her attorney tells ABC News. Chapman is presently inside the courthouse meeting with her lawyer to go over court proceedings.
After six days, 100,000 hours of work and hundreds of searched acres, the United Kingdom's hunt for an alleged gunman continues. Raoul Moat, 37, is suspected of three shootings that left one man dead and a police officer critically injured in Northern England. He has been on the run since Saturday and is believed to be a threat to the general public.
In an unusual move, the Israeli military has released detailed intelligence material on Hezbollah's military build up in South Lebanon to the media. As the 4th anniversary of the "Second Lebanon War" approaches on July 12, Wednesday's release of the information seemed designed to prepare international opinion for any future conflict.
BP is ahead of schedule on a relief well intended to stop the leak in the Gulf, but federal officials are sticking with mid-August as the "kill" time for the blown-out well.
Ten suspected Russian spies may enter guilty pleas today and be deported as soon as tonight, a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation tells CNN.
Prosecutors plan to charge 58-year-old Lonnie David Franklin with 10 counts of capital murder when he is arraigned Thursday morning in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case. Authorities will hold a news conference later in the day.
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