WASHINGTON (AFP) - - With fireworks displays lighting the skies from coast to coast, Americans celebrated Independence Day as White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain geared up Saturday for new clashes on the campaign trail. More »
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - - Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a member of Afghanistan's parliament in the troubled southern province of Kandahar, a district governor told AFP Saturday. More »
MOSCOW (AFP) - - A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 hit the region of the Sea of Okhotsk early Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported. More »
PARAMARIBO (AFP) - - Witnesses told a court martial Friday that Suriname's ex-dictator Desi Bouterse was present at the killings of 15 political opponents more than two decades ago. More »
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - - Four people were injured late Friday in a roller-coaster accident at the Tivoli fairground in Aarhus, eastern Denmark, a police spokesman said Saturday. More »
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - - Three decapitated corpses were discovered in Mexico's northwestern Sinaloa state Friday, bring to a total of seven headless bodies found and 11 police assassinated in a bloody week of often drug-related violence in the country, officials and news reports said. More »
YEREVAN (AFP) - - Several thousand opposition supporters rallied Friday in the Armenian capital Yerevan to call for a series of anti-government protests. More »
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) - - The Bosnian Serb speaker of parliament on Friday warned of anti-Muslim violence during the commemoration of a 1995 massacre next week after a recent "scandalous" UN verdict. More »
TBILISI (AFP) - - Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia ordered its residents to mobilise on Friday and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in intense shelling. More »
WARSAW (AFP) - - Poland refused to budge Friday from its demands for extra air defence-type security guarantees from the United States in exchange for agreeing to host elements of a US missile shield. More »

Bill backs Obama as Hillary returns to Congress





