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At the top of the cargo ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III, Keith Stansell hugs one of the people who helped him return to the U.S. at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas at 11:31PM July 2, 2008.

Military: Freed American hostages in good shape
San Diego

U.S. Air Force Three American hostages rescued from leftist guerrillas in Colombia were back in the United States Thursday, more than five years after their plane went down in rebel-held jungle. Video Three US contractors who were released after five years in captivity at the hands of Colombia rebels, arrived at a military hospital in Texas where...

photo: U.S. Air Force / Lance Cheung

Opinion Worldwide

Winograd panelist regrets not calling on Olmert to resign
Daily Star Lebanon

By Agence France Presse (AFP) Friday, July 04, 2008...

President, PM await Aoun's answer to latest proposal
Daily Star Lebanon

Rival parties still squabbling over portfolios By Hussein Abdallah Daily Star staff...

Peace talks are Olmert's ticket to political survival
Daily Star Lebanon

By Gerald M. Steinberg Commentary by Friday, July 04, 2008...

Serena sets up all-Williams final

Serena Williams of the US reacts after winning her semifinal match against China's Zheng Jie on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Thursday, July 3 , 2008.

London Evening Standard

04.07.08 Serena Williams reached her fourth Wimbledon final and her third against her sister Venus after wrestling aside the plucky challenge of China's Zheng Jie 6-2 7-6 (7/5) on Centre Court. Williams produced another performance bristling with...
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus

Russia rated UK's biggest threat after al-Qaeda and Iran

A Russian police officer walks along a wall, left, as a British security officer, right, guards the British Embassy building in Moscow on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006. Andrei Lugovoi, a key witness in the radiation poisoning case of former Russian agent Alexa

The Times

Britain's security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown's first meeting with President Medvedev. Security officials say that only al-Qaeda terrorism and Iranian...
photo: AP/Misha Japaridze

US extends job loss streak; more pain seen ahead

An assembly worker looks down an empty assembly line after a red convertible 2004 Ford Mustang GT rolled off the line amid as the last vehicle built at the Dearborn Assembly Plant in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, May 10, 2004. Ford Motor Co.'s oldest plant, the creation of founder Henry Ford that contributed to two U.S. war efforts and later was the birthplace of the iconic Mustang, opened in 1918. With the shuttering of the 86-year-old plant, Ford is moving production of the next-generation Mustang to a factory in Flat Rock, southwest of Detroi

Inquirer

WASHINGTON US employers cut workers for a sixth straight month in June for the longest such streak since 2002, and the country's vast service sector unexpectedly contracted, underscoring the economy's frailty. The Department of Labor said on...
photo: AP / Paul Sancya

American Airlines to cut 7000 jobs

American Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Wednesday, July 16, 2003. The parent of American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, said Wednesday, July 21, 2004, it earned $6 million in the second quarter, helped

The Australian

FACING a hefty financial loss in 2008 and the loss of its spot as the world's biggest airline by passenger traffic, American Airlines is initiating long-range plans aimed at shoring up financial stability and keeping a competitive edge. The soaring...
photo: AP Photo/James A. Finley

Dow’s 21% drop from its peak may signal more losses

Clerks looks at a monitor as they work at their post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly before the closing bell Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007.

The Times Of India

NEW YORK: The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 21% retreat from a record may foreshadow more losses for the 112-year-old stock gauge, based on its performance in previous bear markets....
photo: AP / David Karp

Iranian Embassy insists diplomats kidnapped in 1982 still alive in Israel

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottakai, speaks during a press conference as he sits in front of poster shows the portraits of the four Iranian diplomats who were missed during the Lebanese civil war, at the Iranian embassy, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday May 26, 2008. Mottaki praised Monday the agreement that ended Lebanon's crisis, saying "the implementation of the agreement guarantees calm and stability in the region." Mottaki, whose country is the strongest backer of Hezbollah, accused the United States of interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs while saying that Iran's role in Lebanon was "transparent.

Daily Star Lebanon

'All news which has been provided to us proves it' By Agence France Presse (AFP) Friday, July 04, 2008 BEIRUT: Iran's embassy in Lebanon said Thursday that its four nationals, seized in 1982 by a Christian militia in Lebanon, are still alive and...
photo: AP / Ahmad Omar

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