Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav hit Jamaica with
near hurricane-force winds on Thursday after killing at least
59 people elsewhere in the Caribbean, and was on a path to
reach New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil fields as
potentially a powerful hurricane.
AFP - Barack Obama was Thursday to summon America to join his crusade for change, as the Democratic convention climaxes in a historic echo of Martin Luther King's" "I have a dream" speech.
Reuters - Russia faced diplomatic
isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday,
with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France
saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of
cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak
financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.
Reuters - Top U.S. and Pakistani military
officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the
Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in
Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on
Thursday.
AP - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.
Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a
plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes
against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
AP - Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.
