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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to overturn President George W. Bush's second veto of the 2008 farm law, a step that would enact 35 pages on trade programs accidentally omitted from the original bill in May.

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (Reuters) - Republican John McCain would put the United States on course to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 if elected president, the Arizona senator said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. phone companies would be shielded from potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits under an anti-terror spy measure that appears headed toward approval, congressional sources said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers considering new funding for the World Bank on Wednesday sought assurances that the development agency will not provide loans to Iran, which Washington accuses of seeking to develop nuclear bombs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea will soon produce a long-overdue declaration of its nuclear programs, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban President Fidel Castro's appearance in a televised video on Tuesday night put to rest the latest rumors of his imminent demise and suggested he still plays a significant role in Cuba's government.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Students and teachers clashed with police in Chile on Wednesday to protest an education bill they say doesn't go far enough to bring equal access to schooling for the poor even with a government flush with copper dollars.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michigan, Ohio and Florida, three states seen as critical in November's U.S. election, have the worst job-market conditions among the so-called battleground states, a study showed on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors on Wednesday charged three men with a role in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was critical of the Kremlin's rights record in Chechnya, but her newspaper's editor said he did not believe the crime was solved.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Wednesday it would curb the use of Taser stun guns after the federal force's watchdog issued a stinging report accusing officers of zapping suspects unnecessarily.

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour voiced concern on Wednesday over "taboos" on discussion in a key U.N. forum of subjects that Islamic countries see as offending their religion.

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.