¤ 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.