Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in London this month on the political and economic situation in the Middle East, he said on Wednesday.

AP - Escalating aggression by extremist Israeli youths holed up in a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron approached the boiling point Wednesday as Israel's government vowed to evict them.

AP - The U.S. government was finally releasing $400 million on Wednesday to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels.

AP - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court cautioned the U.N. Wednesday to be prepared for reprisals in Darfur if he obtains a warrant to arrest Sudan's president on genocide charges.

AP - The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai says he was promised that his impoverished family would get $1,250 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said Wednesday.