http://www.ey3news.com/content/topic_000011_page.shtml Updated with the latest news for Hot Topics en-gb Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:03:17 EST Copyright: (C) Ey3News.com, see http://www.ey3news.com/terms_and_conditions.shtml for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.ey3news.com/ http://www.ey3news.com/images/icons/ey3news_logo_rss.gif http://www.ey3news.com Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219807 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219807 2007-08-10 18:01:53 Voters concerned about where presidential candidates stand on gay rights may have their question answered tonight. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219808 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219808 2007-08-10 18:01:53 Charges have been dropped for two Marines accused in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Iraq, the U.S. Marine Corps said Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219809 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219809 2007-08-10 18:01:53 Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, are in custody in connection with the execution-style slayings of three college students in a Newark, New Jersey, schoolyard, authorities said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219800 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219800 2007-08-10 18:01:52 A 2½-inch drill hole should reach six trapped Utah coal miners Thursday evening, the mine's operator said at a lunchtime news conference. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219801 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219801 2007-08-10 18:01:52 Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday, while rainy weather cooled off many of the mid-Atlantic states. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219802 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219802 2007-08-10 18:01:52 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219803 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219803 2007-08-10 18:01:52 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219804 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219804 2007-08-10 18:01:52 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219805 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219805 2007-08-10 18:01:52 With white sandy beaches and a laid-back atmosphere, Fort Lauderdale has long billed itself as a gay-friendly tourist destination. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219806 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219806 2007-08-10 18:01:52 AP - Relatives of Sept. 11 victims upset by plans to move this year's commemoration have reached a deal with Mayor Michael Bloomberg that will allow them to mourn at ground zero, the mayor's office said Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217703 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217703 2007-08-10 18:00:33 AP - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Thursday he had exposed himself to the same health risks as workers at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spent as much time at the site as those involved in the recovery. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217704 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217704 2007-08-10 18:00:33 FT.com - The European Central Bank might have called it "fine-tuning" but its decision to inject nearly EU95bn into the eurozone banking system, the largest such intervention since the September 11 2001 attacks, is anything but. Does the ECB know something the rest of the world does not? After all, the Federal Reserve on Tuesday gave no inkling that a systemic threat might arise from the stream of banks and funds confessing to subprime-related problems - BNP Paribas being the latest on Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217705 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217705 2007-08-10 18:00:33 U.S. News & World Report - With the scribble of a pen last Friday, President Bush signed into law a bill that would implement the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 commission report. It was a victory for victims' family members who have pushed vehemently for national security reforms after the catastrophic events of September 11. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217706 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217706 2007-08-10 18:00:33 Reuters - Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said on Wednesday he expects to speak with OPEC ministers ahead of their September 11 meeting and relay the Bush administration's message that the producer group needs to pump more oil. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217707 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217707 2007-08-10 18:00:33 AP - Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday, asking a federal court to let them interview investigators who can tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or whether it had acted reasonably. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217708 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217708 2007-08-10 18:00:33 Reuters - Airlines sued by victims of the September 11 attacks filed complaints with a U.S. court on Tuesday to compel testimony from FBI and CIA agents in a bid to make the federal government more culpable for not preventing the attacks. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217709 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217709 2007-08-10 18:00:33 AP - Military leaders on Thursday welcomed home Lithuania's small contingent of combat troops from Iraq. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217166 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217166 2007-08-10 18:00:16 AFP - Iraq's neighbours, some accused by Washington of not doing enough to improve security in the war-torn country, agreed in Syria on Thursday to cooperate with Baghdad in a bid to restore stability. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217167 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217167 2007-08-10 18:00:16 AFP - The UN Security Council delayed on Thursday its vote on a resolution to expand the United Nations role in Iraq by 24 hours to give the Iraqi government time to review it, diplomats said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217168 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217168 2007-08-10 18:00:16 Reuters - After earthquakes, tsunamis and floods such as those ravaging south Asia, aid agencies invariably warn of serious disease outbreaks -- but in reality better prevention and education mean they rarely happen. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217141 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217141 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's main island of Java early Thursday, including the capital Jakarta, could trigger activity at some of the island's many volcanoes, experts said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217142 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217142 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea rattled Indonesia's capital early Thursday, violently shaking tall buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217143 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217143 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - A look at some earthquakes in Indonesia since 2000: http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217144 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217144 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - A giant wave described by local residents as a "mini-tsunami" claimed the lives of 12 Algerian bathers last week on a beach in the west of the Mediterranean-rim country, officials said Wednesday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217145 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217145 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Reuters - A powerful earthquake struck a coastal area in Indonesia's West Java on Thursday, sparking panic in many parts of the densely inhabited island, although there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217146 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217146 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia's main island of Java early Thursday, but meteorologists said there was no risk of a tsunami and there were no immediate reports of casualties. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217147 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217147 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Reuters - An earthquake that hit Indonesia on Wednesday was at magnitude 7.4 and 282.1 km (175.3 miles) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217148 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217148 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - Two US Marines facing charges in connection with the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha two years ago were cleared of wrongdoing Thursday, the military said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217149 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217149 2007-08-10 18:00:15 CQPolitics.com - Despite frequent statements by President Bush and his political allies that U.S. troops are making progress in the Iraq war, the conflict remains highly unpopular among most Americans. A CBS News-New York Times poll conducted July 20-22 showed 69 percent of respondents disapproved of Bush’s handling of the war, and 66 percent said the war was going somewhat to very badly. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217150 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217150 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - All charges have been dismissed against two Marines accused in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the Marine Corps announced Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217151 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217151 2007-08-10 18:00:15 McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— The Iraqi government, acting on tips that car bombers were on the move with plans to kill Shiite Muslims during a major religious festival, imposed a scheduled curfew almost a day early and caught millions of residents off-guard— and, in some cases, without food. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217152 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217152 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Time.com - Newly in charge of the upper house of the legislature, an opposition leader calls for an end to Japanese involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. His target is Prime Minister Abe, but his country's alliance with the U.S. could suffer collateral damage http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217153 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217153 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - Iranian officials told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday that only a U.S. pullout would bring peace to his nation and claimed the Tehran government was doing its best to help stabilize neighboring Iraq. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217154 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217154 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Reuters - An end to violence in Iraq depends on the United States withdrawing its troops, Iran told Iraq's prime minister on Thursday, seeking to deflect accusations from Washington that it is responsible for bloodshed there. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217155 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217155 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - US President George W. Bush sternly warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday against cozying up to Iran, amid what Washington sees as unsettling signs of warming Baghdad-Tehran relations. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217156 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217156 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - Even some critics of President Bush's Iraq war policies are conceding there is evidence of recent improvements from a military standpoint. But Bush supporters and critics alike agree that these have not been matched by any noticeable progress on the political front. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217157 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217157 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - The director of Iraq's National Library appealed Thursday for troops to keep the institution's books and archives out of the fight, warning their recent security moves had put one of the nation's most important cultural facilities at risk. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217158 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217158 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Reuters - A U.S. Marine general dropped all charges on Thursday against two Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, scene of what Iraqi witnesses said was a massacre by American troops. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217159 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217159 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - Anyone who still wonders what America's top two officials in Baghdad will report to Congress next month just hasn't been listening. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217160 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217160 2007-08-10 18:00:15 Reuters - President George W. Bush insisted on Thursday that Iran is a destabilizing force in Iraq despite Tehran's assertion to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that it is helping secure his country. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217161 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217161 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - The goalkeeper of the Kirkuk soccer club was kidnapped as he was traveling from northern Iraq to visit relatives in Baghdad, a sports official said Thursday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217162 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217162 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - Iran's leaders on Thursday told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that US troops must leave his country, in talks that reinforced growing bilateral ties and sparked unease in Washington. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217163 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217163 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - Hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to a gold-domed mosque in harsh heat and sun Thursday in a pilgrimage of devotion to an 8th century saint that also starkly demonstrated their political power. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217164 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217164 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AP - Q: In your previous conversations with Prime Minister Maliki, have you been confident that he shares your view on Iraq (sic)? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217165 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003217165 2007-08-10 18:00:15 AFP - A suicide bomber sped into a Shiite village and blew up a truck packed with explosives unleashing a massive blast that killed 30 people and pulverised mud-brick homes in northern Iraq on Monday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215560 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215560 2007-08-10 06:00:13 AFP - Iranian, Iraqi and US experts on Monday held the first meeting of a joint security committee looking to ease the insurgency in Iraq that has put arch-foes Washington and Tehran at loggerheads. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215561 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215561 2007-08-10 06:00:13 Reuters - The United States and Iran held the first meeting on Monday of a new sub-committee set up to find ways for the two arch foes to cooperate in ending Iraq's sectarian violence. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215562 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215562 2007-08-10 06:00:13 AP - A suicide bomber slammed his truck into a densely populated residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people, including 19 children, local authorities said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215563 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215563 2007-08-10 06:00:13 Reuters - U.S., Iranian and Iraqi officials held the first meeting in Baghdad on Monday of a sub-committee intended to improve cooperation on Iraqi security among the three countries, officials said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215565 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215565 2007-08-10 06:00:13 The Christian Science Monitor - When Najaf unplugged its power station from the national grid last week, it was a sign of provincial dissent over the unequal distribution of electricity. But it also indicates a new assertiveness in the south, as Iraq's regional leaders seek to wrest control from a central government in Baghdad paralyzed by political infighting. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215567 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215567 2007-08-10 06:00:13 The Christian Science Monitor - Since Democrats took control of Congress seven months ago, they provoked several showdowns over the Iraq war and fired off hundreds of probes of the Bush administration. But until recently they passed few laws. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215568 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215568 2007-08-10 06:00:13 AFP - The US government cannot account for more than half of all small arms given to Iraqis in the hope of bolstering their security forces, raising fears the weapons may have found their way to insurgent groups, according to a new congressional probe. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215569 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215569 2007-08-10 06:00:13 AFP - A suicide bomber blew up a truck packed with explosives in a largely Shiite village in northern Iraq on Monday, killing 27 people, police Brigader General Abdulkarim Khalaf al-Juburi said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215570 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215570 2007-08-10 06:00:13 Reuters - A truck bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed 25 people and destroyed about 10 homes on Monday, police said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215571 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215571 2007-08-10 06:00:13 Reuters - The Pentagon cannot account for 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, or about half the weapons earmarked for soldiers and police, according to a government report. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215572 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003215572 2007-08-10 06:00:13 AFP - US President George W. Bush on Friday signed legislation implementing key counter-terrorism recommendations that emerged from the independent probe into the September 11, 2001 attacks. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213334 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213334 2007-08-06 18:00:28 Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill on Friday aimed at avoiding another September 11-like attack by providing more money to high-risk cities and expanding air and sea cargo screening. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213335 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213335 2007-08-06 18:00:28 Reuters - Iraq's air force commander said on Sunday he hoped Iran would return some of the scores of Iraqi fighter plans that flew there ahead of the Gulf War in 1991, but conceded many of them were probably beyond repair. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213051 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213051 2007-08-06 18:00:14 AFP - Mortar rounds slammed into cars queueing at a Baghdad petrol station on Sunday, killing 11 civilians and wounding more than a dozen in the morning rush hour, security officials and medics said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213052 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213052 2007-08-06 18:00:14 AP - U.S. troops killed an al-Qaida leader behind the bombing of twin minarets at Iraq's prized Golden Dome shrine in Samarra, the military said Sunday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213053 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213053 2007-08-06 18:00:14 Reuters - The House of Representatives early on Sunday approved more money for the Pentagon but not the unpopular Iraq war, which is expected to be the subject of a major legislative clash this fall. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213054 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213054 2007-08-06 18:00:14 AFP - A US soldier was sentenced Saturday to 110 years in jail for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and slaying her family, the army said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213055 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213055 2007-08-06 18:00:14 AP - As of Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007, at least 3,668 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,002 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213036 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213036 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - Rogue Shiite militiamen with Iranian weapons and training launched three-quarters of the attacks that killed or wounded American forces last month in Baghdad, stepping into the void left as Sunni insurgents have been dislodged, a top U.S commander said Sunday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213037 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213037 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AFP - Democrats claimed power in Congress vowing to end the war in Iraq, but seven months on are frustrated at their inability to wrest control of national security policy from President George W. Bush. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213038 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213038 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AFP - US forces killed the mastermind of two attacks on a revered Shiite mosque at the heart of Iraq's bitter sectarian conflict during a crackdown on Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, the military said Sunday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213039 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213039 2007-08-06 18:00:13 Reuters - U.S. forces in Iraq said on Sunday they had killed the mastermind of an attack on a gold-domed Shi'ite shrine last year that triggered the worst phase of the country's spiral into sectarian violence. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213040 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213040 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AFP - The United States envisions a long-term residual US military presence in Iraq, amid "disappointing" political progress that will force a strategic reassessment next month, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213041 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213041 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - The lawyer for a soldier accused of fatally shooting an Iraqi man said the evidence exonerates his client. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213042 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213042 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - The Republican presidential candidates walked a delicate line in their latest campaign debate, seeking some distance from President Bush and an unpopular war in Iraq while offering assurances of change in a new Republican administration. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213043 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213043 2007-08-06 18:00:13 CQPolitics.com - All nine of the declared candidates seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination participated in a 90-minute debate Sunday at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The event was broadcast by ABC and moderated by George Stephanopoulos, the host of the network’s Sunday morning news-talk show, along with veteran political reporter David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213044 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213044 2007-08-06 18:00:13 Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday he was disappointed with the Iraqi government's lack of significant progress and said the nation's parliament should not have taken a summer break. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213045 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213045 2007-08-06 18:00:13 CQPolitics.com - Separating the war against terrorism from the war in Iraq has always been tricky for Democrats up against George W. Bush’s insistence that the two are one and the same. Making a distinction between the “bad” occupation of Iraq and the “good” fight against terrorists can make the brain ache — for both the speaker and the listener. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213046 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213046 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged Sunday that political stability in Iraq won't likely happen before the Bush administration makes its critical September assessment on whether its war strategy is working. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213047 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213047 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - A soldier convicted for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager was sentenced to 110 years in prison, the longest of four soldiers found guilty in the case. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213048 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213048 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AFP - Iraq's most senior leaders are to hold a crisis summit this week to find a way to heal the sectarian split in their beleaguered national unity government and head off more violence, they said on Sunday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213049 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213049 2007-08-06 18:00:13 AP - The House approved modest changes to President Bush's record Pentagon budget proposal early Sunday, but Democrats signaled plans to resume a more contentious debate over the Iraq war after the August recess. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213050 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003213050 2007-08-06 18:00:13 Protecting the Earth has never been easier, thanks to these most environmentally friendly cars. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212454 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212454 2007-08-06 06:03:28 The ones to play in Fall 2007. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212455 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212455 2007-08-06 06:03:28 Fifteen of the candidates for the presidency ranked by perceptions of how kooky-wacky they might be. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212456 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212456 2007-08-06 06:03:28 Thanks to affordable housing and healthy local economies, areas in California, Arizona and Texas are seeing explosive growth. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212457 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212457 2007-08-06 06:03:28 Our list charts the development of a maturing market for A-List images worth tens of millions. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212458 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003212458 2007-08-06 06:03:28 AP - A plan to move this year's Sept. 11 commemoration from the World Trade Center site may be just one of several concerns victims' relatives raise with Mayor Michael Bloomberg when they meet next week. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211689 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211689 2007-08-06 06:00:25 AFP - A US Marine sergeant was found guilty at a court martial Thursday of unpremeditated murder and conspiracy to murder in the killing an Iraqi civilian in 2006, the US military said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211545 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211545 2007-08-06 06:00:12 Bloomberg - Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- For Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the difference between ``real'' and ``reasonable'' is the distance he's traveled on President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211546 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211546 2007-08-06 06:00:12 AFP - The United States and Britain Thursday presented a draft resolution in the UN Security Council to enhance and expanded the role of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI). http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211547 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211547 2007-08-06 06:00:12 AP - Britain said Thursday that it expects quick approval of a resolution that would expand the U.N. mandate in Iraq to promote political reconciliation, settle disputed internal boundaries, and plan for a national census. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211548 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211548 2007-08-06 06:00:12 Time.com - U.S. forces in Madain are the last line of defense against insurgent bombs entering the capital http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211549 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211549 2007-08-06 06:00:12 AP - As of Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007, at least 3,659 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,000 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211550 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211550 2007-08-06 06:00:12 AFP - Iraq's victorious football team was homeward bound Friday for a heroic welcome after winning the Asian Cup, but a third of the squad members decided to skip the festivities in the war-torn capital. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211535 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211535 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AFP - Iranian, US and Iraqi experts will meet next week to discuss the makeup and responsibilities of a tripartite security committee, Tehran's ambassador in Baghdad was quoted as saying on Friday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211536 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211536 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AP - Prosecutors rested after struggling to overcome a soldier's recanting of his story that a comrade accused of conspiring to rape and kill an Iraqi girl and her family took part in the attack. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211537 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211537 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AP - Iraq anxiously awaited the arrival of its Asian Cup soccer champs Friday, but most Baghdad residents would be barred from the homecoming celebration because of security. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211538 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211538 2007-08-06 06:00:11 Reuters - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday, underlining U.S. President George W. Bush's grim prediction of "a very difficult August" for U.S. troops in Iraq. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211539 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211539 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will visit Iran and Turkey next week to discuss security issues and the need for cooperation amid tensions with both countries. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211540 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211540 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AP - As the senior member of an eight-man squad accused in the killing of an Iraqi civilian, Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III was always a focus of the investigation. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211541 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211541 2007-08-06 06:00:11 Reuters - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad on Thursday, three of them when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb, the U.S. military said on Friday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211542 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211542 2007-08-06 06:00:11 AFP - Four more American soldiers have been killed in the Iraqi capital in two separate attacks, the US military said on Friday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211543 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211543 2007-08-06 06:00:11 The Christian Science Monitor - Throngs of Iraqis were busily shopping for the weekend when a truck bomb and barrage of rockets ripped apart the market in central Karrada. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211544 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003211544 2007-08-06 06:00:11