WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush bailed out U.S.
automakers on Friday with $17.4 billion in emergency loans as he
sought to stave off a collapse that would have cost hundreds of
thousands of jobs.
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BRUSSELS - Belgium was left scrambling for political
leadership for the third time in a year on Saturday after the
government collapsed following its botched attempt to bail out
troubled financial group Fortis .
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MOSCOW - Russia will stop developing some strategic weapons
if the United States drops plans for a missile shield in Europe,
Interfax news agency quoted the commander of Russia's strategic
missile forces as saying on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a
U.S. Army combat aviation brigade to Afghanistan as part of a
buildup of forces to counter rising insurgent violence,
officials said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD - Muslim preachers from both sides of Iraq's
once-bloody Sunni-Shi'ite divide appealed to the government on
Friday to release the journalist who threw his shoes at U.S.
President George W. Bush.
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GAZA - Armed Islamist factions in Gaza went on alert on
Friday after declaring an end to a six-month truce with Israel
and warned the Jewish state not to attack the coastal enclave.
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CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said on Friday he
had done nothing wrong and would not resign in the wake of
charges he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by
President-elect Barack Obama.
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WASHINGTON - Mark Felt, the mysterious "Deep Throat" source
who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down
President Richard Nixon, has died at age 95.
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BAKU - Azerbaijan on Friday edged closer to a referendum on
scrapping a two-term presidential limit, a step that could
prolong the Aliyev family's grip on the oil-producing state.
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BINDURA, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
announced on Friday he had invited rival Morgan Tsvangirai to be
sworn-in as prime minister in a shared government, but expressed
doubt whether he would accept.
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TOKYO - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has
slumped to 16.7 percent, a survey by Jiji news agency showed on
Friday, as the gaffe-prone premier struggles to revive the
nation's recession-hit economy.
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