KIEV – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Ukraine yesterday that the door to joining NATO remained open even though its new leadership has abandoned alliance membership as a long-term goal.
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HOUSTON – Washington was preparing a revised offshore oil drilling moratorium and cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico returned to normal yesterday after hurricane Alex passed through the region without doing major damage.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. private payrolls rose only modestly in June and overall employment fell for the first time this year as thousands of temporary census jobs ended, indicating the economic recovery is failing to pick up steam.
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KABUL – The United States’ top field commander arrived in Afghanistan yesterday to take charge of the faltering war, pledging to tackle the nine-year-old Taliban insurgency with a strategy he successfully pioneered in Iraq.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey intensified yesterday after Turkish planes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.
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BERLIN – Just one in five Germans think Chancellor Angela Merkel has a firm grip on her ruling centre-right government after she suffered a major rebellion in a presidential election this week, a poll showed yesterday.
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LAHORE – Pakistanis demanded a tougher government crackdown on militants at protests yesterday a day after suicide bombers killed dozens in the country’s most economically important province and traditional seat of power.
