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NKorea fires missiles; launch toward US feared (AP) — 2009-07-02

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.

Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign (AP) — 2009-07-03

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.

US vice president in Iraq (AP) — 2009-07-02

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.

OAS chief says sanctions likely in Honduras (AP) — 2009-07-02

AP - A top diplomat said Thursday he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint В— a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.

Court decriminalizes gay sex in Indian capital (AP) — 2009-07-02

AP - New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality В— a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.

India's Historic Ruling on Gay Rights (Time.com) — 2009-07-03
Time.com - India's High Court decriminalizes homosexuality, winning applause from activists, the ire of conservatives, and possibly opening the way for gay rights groups in neighboring countries
 

New Swiss firefighting tool: TV remote control (AP) — 2009-07-03
AP - It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. When they arrived, they discovered no signs of fire or smoke.
 

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322 (AP) — 2009-07-03
AP - As of Thursday, July 2, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
 

Peru bus collision kills 23 near Lake Titicaca (AP) — 2009-07-03
AP - Two buses crashed head-on Thursday on a mountain road near Lake Titicaca in Peru, killing at least 23 people and injuring 50 more, police said.
 

Philip Morris to buy South Africa snuff maker (AP) — 2009-07-02
AP - Philip Morris International, maker of Marlboro and other cigarettes for sale overseas, has agreed to buy a Swedish company's South African snuff and pipe tobacco operations for 1.75 billion South African rand, or roughly $222 million.
 

UN chief heads for difficult Myanmar mission (AFP) — 2009-07-03

AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon was due to arrive in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday on a diplomatically risky mission to seek the release of political prisoners including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Canada's recession losses to be long term: report (Reuters) — 2009-07-02
Reuters - More Canadians will be out of work in 2014 than prior to the recession, even if the economy recovers quickly and expands at a healthy clip for the next five years, a prominent economist forecast on Thursday.
 

Aussie officials to visit India after student attacks (AFP) — 2009-07-02

AFP - A high-level Australian delegation will travel to India next week to give safety assurances following a wave of attacks on Indian students, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Thursday.

Pakistan desperately short of money to resettle Swat residents (McClatchy Newspapers) — 2009-07-02
McClatchy Newspapers - PESHAWAR, Pakistan В— Major Western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, haven't pledged the money needed to resettle the population now that the fighting is mostly over, and humanitarian organizations fear that 2 million people will be sent back home before it's safe to go.
 

US operation aims to smooth road for Afghan elections (The Christian Science Monitor) — 2009-07-02
The Christian Science Monitor - With national elections less than two months away, the Afghan government is hoping to bring more areas under its control with the help of a new US-led military campaign.