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05.06 09:29 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's army chief said before meeting U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke Friday that his forces had "turned the tide" against Taliban fighters and aimed to completely eradicate them from the Swat valley.

05.06 01:28 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats are considering fast-tracking legislation to boost auto sales by offering Americans vouchers to trade in older, less fuel-efficient vehicles for ones that get better mileage, a congressional aide said on Thursday.

04.06 23:51 MIAMI (Reuters) - South Carolina's top court on Thursday ordered Governor Mark Sanford, a fierce critic of President Obama's economic stimulus program, to take $700 million in federal stimulus money.

04.06 23:32 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sonia Sotomayor's ruling against white firefighters in a discrimination case will be scrutinized by the Senate and the Supreme Court over the coming weeks, but the court's first Hispanic nominee does not consider it to be among the most significant decisions of her career.

04.06 23:23 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are considering adding to a pending war funding bill provisions to offer car buyers vouchers to trade in their older, less fuel-efficient vehicles for ones that get better mileage, a congressional aide said on Thursday.

04.06 22:44 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even though he is 15th in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency, Energy Secretary Steven Chu still thinks he's a nerd.

04.06 16:28 SHAH MANSOOR CAMP, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke urged European and Muslim nations Thursday to help families who have fled the conflict in Pakistan's Swat valley and avert a humanitarian crisis.

04.06 07:31 (Corrects last paragraph to say F-22 replacing aircraft lost in combat)

04.06 01:37 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Congress on Wednesday he was open to making mandatory health insurance part of an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system but only with exemptions for the poor and for small businesses.

04.06 00:48 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign of improving relations between Washington and Damascus, the United States is sending a military delegation to Syria in the coming weeks to discuss Iraq, U.S. and Syrian officials said on Wednesday.

03.06 23:14 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats have pared a war funding bill to buy seven Lockheed Martin C-130 military transport aircraft from the 11 that the U.S. House of Representatives initially approved, a congressional source close to the matter said on Wednesday.

03.06 22:47 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign of improving relations between Washington and Damascus, the United States is sending a military delegation to Syria in the coming weeks to discuss Iraq, U.S. and Syrian officials said on Wednesday.

03.06 22:21 BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd has issued a security patch for the popular device, whose users include U.S. President Barack Obama, warning that it is vulnerable to attacks by hackers.

03.06 22:11 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Wednesday said President Barack Obama may not get the extra $2 billion he requested to combat the H1N1 flu strain that has infected thousands of Americans.

03.06 21:26 DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said U.S. President Barack Obama had planted the seeds of "revenge and hatred" toward the United States in the Muslim world and warned Americans to prepare for the consequences.

03.06 18:41 NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya summoned the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to explain the last-minute cancellation of new Delta Air Lines flights on security fears.