Cairo - Washington would "never permit Syria to intervene militarily in Lebanon," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview to Al-Arabiya TV broadcast Friday.
"A clear message has been delivered to Damascus stating that Washington will not tolerate a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon." Rice said.
Recent military attacks in Tripoli and Damascus should not be used as a justification for Syrian military intervention in Lebanon, she said.
New York - Wall Street took another tumble on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiralling down by more than 700 points amid renewed worries the United States is already in the grip of a recession.
US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke warned that the emergency action taken by the Bush administration in response to the financial crisis is unlikely to produce a swift economic recovery.
"Stabilization of the financial markets is a critical first step, but even if they stabilize as we hope they will, broader economic recovery will not happen right away," Bernanke said to the Economic Club of New York.
Washington - Seven new countries will be added to the United States' visa-waiver programme after meeting new security requirements aimed at reducing the threat of terrorism, President George W Bush announced Friday.
In about one month, citizens of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and South Korea will be able to visit the US for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa.
The admission was part of a long process that began some two years ago and has strained relations with US allies. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the US has placed a variety of new security requirements on all foreign travellers.
Prague - Czech officials and travel agents welcomed Washington's decision, announced Friday by US President George W Bush, to allow Czechs to travel to the United States without visas.
But some citizens said the new policy, set to go into effect within a month, came too late.
"It is virtually the largest success we could have achieved. It lifts the last relic of communism and the Cold War. I am thus very happy," Czech Prime Minister Topolanek said in a statement.
Some Czechs pointed out that the relic held out for a long 19 years.
Washington - North Korea is again making progress in dismantling its nuclear facilities after the United States and North Korea broke an impasse last week over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the US State Department said Friday.
Washington - With only 18 days left before presidential elections, the US Supreme Court Friday ruled against a voter registration request by Ohio Republicans that could have limited participation by newly registered, mostly Democratic, voters.
The challenge mounted in Ohio was among nationwide protests being filed by Republicans in key battleground states where Democratic nominee Barack Obama has put Republican John McCain on the defensive on normally Republican turf.
Cairo - Washington would "never permit Syria to intervene militarily in Lebanon," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview to Al-Arabiya TV broadcast Friday.
Prague - Czech officials and travel agents welcomed Washington's decision, announced Friday by US President George W Bush, to allow Czechs to travel to the United States without visas.
Washington - North Korea is again making progress in dismantling its nuclear facilities after the United States and North Korea broke an impasse last week over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the US State Department said Friday.
