¤ Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a US-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed.

¤ President George W. Bush, addressing America's leading civil rights organization for the first time since he took office, lamented the poor relationship between blacks and his Republican Party.

¤ Nato urged the international community not to neglect Afghanistan at a time of conflict in the Middle East and Iraq, as the alliance gears up to take over security in the violence-plagued south of the country.

¤ Somalia's Islamists vowed a "holy war" against Ethiopian troops crossing into the Horn of Africa nation, while Addis Ababa threatened to "crush" any attack on the interim government it supports.

¤ A prosecutor has asked Italy's new justice minister to request the extradition of more than 20 CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in 2003, a judicial source said.

¤ Forecasters issued storm warnings for some of the vacation playgrounds of the northeastern United States as Tropical Storm Beryl headed toward the coast of Massachusetts.

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