• OAS chief says sanctions likely in Honduras (AP)
    Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya hold hands as they stand in front of a line of soldiers guarding the entrance to a park during a protest through downtown Tegucigalpa,Thursday, July 2, 2009.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)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.


  • Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign (AP)
    U.S Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines climb on to a rooftop of a house after arriving in an an overnight night air assault near the Taliban stronghold of Nawa in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009. Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)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. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.


  • UN chief to lobby Myanmar for Suu Kyi's release (AP)
    AP - The U.N. secretary-general said he planned to lobby Myanmar's junta chief directly Friday for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, acknowledging that his high-profile mission will be "very difficult."
  • NKorea fires missiles; launch toward US feared (AP)
    South Koreans watch a television broadcasting undated image a North Korea launch missile at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009. North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment. The Korean read 'North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday.


  • US vice president in Iraq (AP)
    Iraqi security forces secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The attack was the first in Baghdad since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)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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