GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top ranks of the Islamist group in a Gaza offensive that has claimed more than 400 Palestinian lives.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich defied fellow Democrats by appointing a successor on Tuesday to fill Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat — the seat the governor is charged with trying to sell to the highest bidder.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday expanded its bailout of the U.S. auto industry, saying it was buying $5 billion in equity in auto and mortgage finance company GMAC and increasing a loan to General Motors by $1 billion.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes killed 10 Palestinians on Tuesday in attacks that targeted Hamas government buildings and other symbols of the Islamist group on the fourth day of the fiercest air offensive in Gaza in decades.
SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - Crumbling home and auto sales pushed three Japanese insurers into merger talks and data from Europe showed the region’s economies faced a bleak 2009.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s president promised on Saturday to rid the country of terrorism and his prime minister said the military would not take action first in any face-off with India.