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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday unveiled legislation that would require federal energy market regulators to oversee all over-the-counter crude oil trading, including action on overseas exchanges like the IntercontinentalExchange.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will veto the new version of the 2008 farm law pending in Congress, spokesman Scott Stanzel said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday pressed fellow rich nations to make good on their pledges to provide $60 billion to help African countries combat diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is freezing the assets of three Gulf-based militants on Thursday, saying they provided financial and material support to al Qaeda.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A planned $10 billion global fund for cleaner emissions technology backed by the Bush administration drew a skeptical bipartisan response from members of Congress and environmentalists on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made energy a key focus of his first trip to western Europe on Thursday, promising Germany closer energy cooperation and offering Europe more say in Russian oil and gas deliveries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled Congress on Thursday adopted a $3 trillion U.S. budget for next year as the House of Representatives put the finishing touches on a measure to eliminate deficits by 2012 while spending more than President George W. Bush wanted for domestic programs.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations, European Union and United States on Thursday condemned a Rwandan rebel attack on a refugee camp in east Congo as a "terrorist act" and said those responsible must be brought to justice.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Senate Banking Committee said on Thursday he hopes Congress will complete a housing rescue package and send it to President George W. Bush before lawmakers take a July 4 holiday break.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a final step to correct a clerical error, the Senate was scheduled to vote on Thursday for the second time on the $289 billion U.S. farm bill, this time including food aid and trade programs, leaders said.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police detained U.S. and British diplomats for several hours on Thursday, slashing the tires of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential vote.

EL FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Byrd, who at 90 is the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, was released from a hospital on Thursday after three days of treatment for a mild infection, his spokesman said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Thursday that Europe needed a new comprehensive security pact to address key issues dividing the continent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and his top policymakers misstated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programs as they made a case for war, the Senate intelligence committee reported on Thursday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it had given U.N. investigators more than 200 pages of answers to questions about intelligence reports that it secretly researched how to make atom bombs and declared "the matter is over".

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK party appeared to move a step closer to being shut down on Thursday when the Constitutional Court overturned a reform that would have allowed women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark's embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

LONDON (Reuters) - The sight of a family mourning a teenage child, killed by young assailants with no obvious motive, is becoming increasingly familiar in Britain.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military is cooperating with Iran by sharing information and coordinating strikes against PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish general said on Thursday.