Bush Says Russian WTO Agreement `Almost Reached' (Update2)

Bush Says Russian WTO Agreement `Almost Reached' (Update2)
Bloomberg - 15 hours agoJuly 15 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization stalled over its barriers to US meat exports, officials from both countries said, hours after a statement from President George W. Bush that a deal was ``almost reached.''. ...

Microsoft, Yahoo Finally Start Merging Instant-Message Systems
FOX News - Jul 13, 2006SEATTLE Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) are beginning a limited test of plans to make their instant messaging systems work together. The much-vaunted pairing comes a bit later than the two companies had originally hoped. ...

Mumbai police detain and questin more than 100
Sydney Morning Herald - 22 hours agoPolice searching for clues in Mumbai's deadly serial bombings swept through a number of neighbourhoods overnight, detaining and questioning more than 100 people, news reports said on Saturday. The sweeps were ...

Gunmen kidnap Olympic team chief
Telegraph.co.uk - 6 hours agoBy Paul Willis. The head of Iraq's Olympic committee was kidnapped along with about 30 officials and others when camouflaged gunmen attacked a conference centre in Baghdad yesterday. A bodyguard was shot dead ...

More airstrikes as Hezbollah rockets hit deeper
International Herald Tribune - 12 hours agoMETULA, Israel In another day of cross-border shooting exchanges, Israeli airstrikes killed more than 20 Lebanese civilians on Saturday, including at least 15 who died when their convoy of vehicles was attempting to flee the south Lebanon border area ...

Indonesia bird flu toll hits 41
BBC News - Jul 14, 2006Indonesian authorities have confirmed that a child who died last week was the country's 41st victim of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. The three-year-old girl died in a Jakarta hospital on 6 July. Officials ...

Bush, Putin announce anti-terror program
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 14 hours agoBy TOM RAUM. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, making a united stand against terrorism, announced a new program on Saturday to detect and track terrorists trying ...

UN Demands End to North Korean Missile Program
New York Times - 5 hours agoUNITED NATIONS, July 15 The Security Council condemned North Korea s missile launchings on Saturday and demanded that the country suspend its ballistic missile program, in a resolution that was weakened at the 11th hour to forestall a veto by China. ...

Escalation need not be inevitable
The Japan Times - 5 hours agoThe sickening downward spiral of violence in the Middle East continues. Last week, Hezbollah, the militant Shiite Muslim group, opened a second front against Israel by launching a border attack from southern Lebanon. ...

Reporters could be subpoenaed again if Plame suit advances
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Jul 14, 2006Conversations White House officials had with journalists in 2003 are central to a lawsuit filed Friday by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, who claim the officials violated their free speech rights. ...