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NKorea fires missiles; launch toward US feared
2:20PM CT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast Thursday, a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the July Fourth holiday.
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Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign
4:00PM CT
NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.
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US vice president in Iraq
4:21PM CT
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns.
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OAS chief says sanctions likely in Honduras
4:00PM CT
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A top diplomat said Thursday he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint — a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.
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Court decriminalizes gay sex in Indian capital
11:00AM CT
NEW DELHI (AP) - New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
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FBI notes: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refuge
2:15PM CT
BAGHDAD (AP) - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.
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French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first
1:06PM CT
LE BOURGET, France (AP) - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.
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Iran reports more protest arrests
10:43AM CT
(AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
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Comoros crash spotlights 3rd-world air travel risk
3:20PM CT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - First there was smoke, then flames burst out of the aircraft engine. But I was having difficulty communicating with the Mozambican flight attendant who was fussing with warm sodas and soggy sandwiches and did not speak English.
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Bomb targeting police kills 2 in Pakistan
9:18AM CT
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Bombs targeting police and employees of a Pakistani nuclear facility killed two people and wounded scores more Thursday — the latest attacks to hit Pakistan as it battles Taliban insurgents near the border with Afghanistan.
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