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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida employers cannot bar their employees from keeping guns locked in their cars at work but businesses can stop customers from keeping firearms in cars while shopping, a U.S. judge has ruled.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno said on Tuesday he was worried about a possible plan to send U.N. troops to Somalia when it is unclear who controls militants on the ground.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate lawmakers remained deadlocked on Tuesday over legislation to rein in excessive energy speculation, as they haggled over adding amendments to the bill.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush urged China's leadership on Tuesday to use the Beijing Olympics to show a commitment to human rights, the White House said, as he nudged his Chinese hosts about U.S. concerns 10 days before attending the games' opening ceremonies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday that Washington must restore confidence in mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Obama's spokesman said.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior Pakistani figures have accused the Islamabad government of buckling to U.S. pressure not to hold up a nuclear trade deal between Washington and Pakistan's arch-rival India.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to break up scuffles with youths during a demonstration by hardline Serbian nationalists in support of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's ruling Kadima party said on Tuesday that a primary election that could replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would be held on September 17.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called Israeli settlement building "a problem" on Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began fresh talks in her uphill push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has installed Internet-spying equipment in all the major hotel chains serving the 2008 Summer Olympics, a U.S. senator charged on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chris Dodd said on Tuesday he plans to meet Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to discuss provisions of recently-passed housing legislation aimed at helping borrowers with mortgages they cannot afford.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should begin weaning itself from gasoline taxes and unwind other programs to make way for more state involvement and private investment in road construction and transit, the Bush administration proposed on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was charged on Tuesday with concealing more than $250,000 worth of gifts, including home renovations, that he received from an Alaska oil services company, the Justice Department said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the U.S. economy and Obama's proposals to bolster it, a campaign aide said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ratcheting up sanctions against Myanmar's military leaders, the U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday it moved to block assets and transactions by two government-controlled business conglomerates with operations from mining and gemstones to banking and construction.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official on Tuesday shrugged off anti-Russian remarks by U.S. presidential candidate John McCain and said Moscow could handle any unwanted turn in relations with Washington.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is concerned about an International Criminal Court case against Sudan's president for alleged genocide in Darfur and its impact on the peace process, a senior Chinese leader told a visiting Sudanese official on Tuesday.

ISTANBUL/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dispatched two top aides to Turkey on Tuesday for a fourth round of indirect peace talks with Syria, an Israeli official said.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court gave the green light on Tuesday to the expansion of a U.S. military base at Vicenza, overturning a lower court's order for it to be stopped due to locals' fears about terrorism and environmental damage.