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The Bush administration announced Sunday that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit.
The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic tensions with Washington.
Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.
Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday.
An estimated 2.5 million U.S. grandparents are responsible for the basic needs of one or more grandchildren who live with them, ...
An explosives-packed pickup blew up a police security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding ...
Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered ...
Hurricane Ike strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm and barreled toward the Turks and Caicos with 135 mph winds Saturday, ...
Authorities in northern Illinois say an explosion has destroyed a house and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home have been found in the wreckage
The next big hurricane could leave the state not merely damaged but in financial ruin
While the U.S. goes slow on withdrawing troops from Iraq, Baghdad is seeking sophisticated warplanes to defend itself
Russian money and Chechen workers pour into South Ossetia to help rebuild - and to win locals to Moscow's side
U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of Haitians left hungry by Tropical Storm Hanna, but had yet to reach thousands even as powerful Hurricane Ike approached the nation
washingtonpost.com - World
CAIRO -- Iraqi refugee Jenan Adnan Abdel-Jabbar arrived for the Iraqi government's free airlift back home with eight suitcases, five children and a knotted skein of hope and fear in her heart.
NAIROBI -- In Kenya these days, tourists are slowly returning to safari camps across the Masai Mara game reserve. The economy is hobbling back to life, and the country's once-feuding political leaders often shake hands and exchange conciliatory words in public.
HYDERABAD, India, Sept. 6 -- International negotiators revoked a 34-year-old ban on nuclear trade with India on Saturday and backed a contentious nuclear energy agreement between the country and the United States.
ALGIERS, Sept. 7 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed leaders of two oil-rich, autocratic North African countries on Saturday for better cooperation on counterterrorism and help in reducing the number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept. 6 -- Vice President Cheney on Saturday called Russia's actions in the conflict with Georgia an "affront to civilized standards" and urged Western nations to stand united against any effort by Russia to use its dominance as an energy supplier to intimidate its neighbors.
Reuters: Top News
HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic tensions with Washington, a pro-government newspaper reported on Saturday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all shareholders of the two mortgage giants will take a hit, an influential lawmaker said on Saturday.
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama warned the elderly on Saturday that Republican rival John McCain would put their retirement income in danger.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Mexican soccer fans dressed in white at an international game in the Azteca Stadium on Saturday to protest rising crime and a brutal drug war that has killed more than 2,700 people this year.
AP - Ike ripped off roofs, swept away boats and collapsed a bridge on the last road into a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit.
AFP - Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) set up an election showdown Sunday, picking Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to run against Chancellor Angela Merkel in elections in 2009.
AP - A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer.
AFP - Danny Jordaan, the chief executive of the organising committee for the 2010 World Cup, insisted Sunday South Africa "is on time" to host the tournament and dismissed rumours Germany could step in as a replacement.
AP - Posing for a snapshot with a glittery championship belt in a packed theater, Seigi Nishiyama was among some 600 fans who can't get enough of World Wrestling Entertainment.
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