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North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui Chun sits down next to his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi as they attend the plenary session of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)
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An Indian policeman gestures to his colleagues to move ahead during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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A Kashmiri boy tries to cross barbed wire set-up by Indian police as a barricade on a deserted street in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout pro-freedom slogans as they carry effigy of Jammu and Kashmir state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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An Indian policeman jumps in air to avoid stones thrown at him as he and his colleagues chase the protesters away in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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An Indian policeman fires tear gas shell towards Kashmiri Muslim protesters in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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Kashmiri Muslim protesters burn an effigy of Jammu and Kashmir state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 23, 2010. The predominantly Muslim region, where resistance to rule by Hindu-majority India is strong, has witnessed curfews and strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 17 people, mostly teenagers, in the demonstrations. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, arrives to attend the opening of the ASEAN Regional Forum on Friday July 23, 2010, in Hanoi. The forum is attended by foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their counterparts from partners countries including U.S., China, Russia, Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/HOANG DINH Nam, Pool)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, answers questions about ethics charges on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has been called on to resign by the leader of a watchdog organization.
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Associated Press Industrialist John Raese, seen here in April 2006 in a prior bid for office, is again seeking a Senate seat in West Virginia.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (center), discusses global warming on Capitol Hill after Senate Democrats abandoned plans to pass an energy bill. Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, and White House energy adviser Carol Browner look on. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House on Thursday. The legislation, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously, calls on agencies to crack down on improper government payments.
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Associated Press Serbia's envoy to the Netherlands, Cedomir Radojkovic (left), and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic (center) await a ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence from the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday.
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Associated Press 'RIGHT ANSWER': Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci hailed the ruling Thursday on Kosovo independence.
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** FILE ** Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander, is the federal government's point man for the BP oil-well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo)
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The White House said on Thursday, July 22, that the president (shown in this composite in a March 2010 photo) expressed to Ms. Sherrod his regret about the events of the last several days, noting that the phone call lasted seven minutes. (Credits: Sherrod file photo: AP/United States Department of Agriculture; Obama: Pete Souza for Associated Press)
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An undated photo provided by the United States Department of Agriculture shows USDA official Shirley Sherrod. Mrs. Sherrod is at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP. Mrs. Sherrod was ousted Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago. (AP Photo/United States Department of Agriculture)
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pauses as he speaks with reporters on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at the White House in Washington, about the apparently wrongful firing of a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, Shirley Sherrod, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative website. Mr. Gibbs says Mrs. Sherrod is owed an apology for the rush to judgement after the full video indicated those remarks were taken out of context. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. On Thursday, Mr. Reid said the Senate Democrats are abandoning an energy bill, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this Thursday, July 15, 2010, file photo, Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, hold a symbolic key to the U.S. Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper during a ceremony transferring the facility to Iraqi control in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's justice minister says four al Qaeda-linked detainees have escaped from the Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago. (AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo, File)
