Terrorist Morale In Trouble
CBS News - 28 minutes ago (AP) The US military released on Tuesday a letter it believes was addressed to terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from an underling complaining that incompetence of leaders in his al Qaeda in Iraq network is hurting morale among his fighters.

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 51 minutes ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). BAGHDAD: Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century was sworn in Tuesday, but the line-up remained incomplete as wrangling continued over the attribution of key portfolios to the minority Sunni Arabs.

Father Tells Jilted Groom to Go Slowly
ABC News - 7 hours ago In this undated image taken from television and provided by FOX News Channel, John Mason is shown during an interview on FOX News. The jilted groom from Georgia whose bride-to-be ran away four days before

Chirac drives for EU ‘oui’ vote
EUpolitix - May 2, 2005 Jacques Chirac has stepped up the French ‘yes’ campaign as the clock ticks on a May 29 vote on the EU constitution. The French President set out his European vision to a meeting of EU culture ministers in Paris on Monday.

Fed Raises Target Rate to 3%, Keeps `Measured Pace' (Update2)
Bloomberg - 41 minutes ago May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers raised the benchmark US interest rate a quarter-point to 3 percent and restated a plan to carry out further increases at a ``measured'' pace to head off faster inflation.

Country waiting to hear Dems say something other than 'no!'
Whittier Daily News - 14 hours ago By Morton Kondracke. DEMOCRATS can bask, if they wish, in President Bush's gloomy poll ratings. But it's hard to see how they will win the next election without a positive program. So far, from Social Security

Qwest Reports First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Edges Down
NewsFactor Network - 1 hour ago Analyst Anna Maria Kovacs of Regulatory Source Associates expects Qwest to demand that the merging companies divest assets before combining -- and then to capitalize by snapping up divested local facilities to feed its long-distance network.

Report on Calipari killing sparks withdrawal debate
Daily Star - Lebanon - 41 minutes ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). ROME: Italy's diplomatic spat with the United States amid sharply differing accounts of the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by US troops has revived a debate over the withdrawal of Rome's 3,000 troops from Iraq.

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 34 minutes ago UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iran's foreign minister said Tuesday that the country will press forward with its pursuit of "peaceful" nuclear technology, calling it an "unalienable right.". "It is unacceptable that

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 40 minutes ago CHINA opened a new round of panda diplomacy yesterday, offering a pair of the animals to Taiwan. But the gesture quickly became bogged down in a spat over whether state leaders rather than cuddly mammals should visit the island.