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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Wednesday overturned President George W. Bush's second veto of the $289 billion U.S. farm law, enacting 35 pages omitted from the original bill in the third veto override of Bush's tenure.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting between Islamist-led insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops has killed at least 17 people, residents said on Wednesday, underlining the lack of impact of a U.N.-brokered peace agreement.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel are putting the final touches to an agreement to exchange prisoners, a Lebanese political source said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michelle Obama wrote a thank-you note to Laura Bush after the first lady spoke up in defense of the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, Obama said on Wednesday in an appearance on TV talk show, "The View."

RIGA (Reuters) - Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis injured his head in a car crash on Wednesday and was taken to hospital, but his life is not in danger, a spokesman said.

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania has held no talks on hosting a U.S. missile shield, but would consider the idea if Washington's negotiations with Poland failed and the Americans suggested it, officials said on Wednesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Career diplomat William Lacy Swing was chosen as head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday after an unusually heated race.

MALABO (Reuters) - The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a leader of a 2004 coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea that was backed by Spain and South Africa, a British mercenary told a court on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to end a ban on offshore oil drilling, responding to consumer anxiety over soaring gasoline prices with a plan sure to anger environmentalists.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A former CNN journalist could lead a leftist party of former Cold War Marxist guerrillas to power for the first time in El Salvador's presidential election next year, opinion polls show.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has named a panel of former U.S. officials to advise him on foreign policy, some of whom may be considered for Cabinet posts if he wins in November.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament could hold a preliminary vote as early as June 25 on whether to dissolve itself and force an election that could replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, legislative officials said on Wednesday.

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Indian soldiers evacuated thousands of stranded people from submerged villages on Wednesday, as floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept across the country's east and northeast.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a narrow 5-point lead on Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, but holds a big early edge with the crucial swing voting blocs of independents and women, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will never surrender to an "illegitimate" demand by major world powers that it halt uranium enrichment, Iran's state radio on Wednesday quoted the country's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog as saying.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates ranked among the top five nations globally for consumer confidence despite fears over rising inflation in the oil-fueled economy, a U.S. research agency said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People living in the United States could travel to Cuba more often and visit a broader list of family members under legislation approved by a congressional panel on Tuesday.

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Two thousand Turkish soldiers took part in an operation against Kurdish separatists on Wednesday, killing three rebels in southeast Turkey, security sources said.

HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and his rival on Wednesday to try to mediate an end to a violent election crisis.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama misused a "code word" in Middle East politics when he said Jerusalem should be Israel's "undivided" capital but that does not mean he is naive on foreign policy, a top adviser said on Tuesday.