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DENVER (Reuters) - Two offices of John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign, in Colorado and New Hampshire, were evacuated on Thursday, and several staffers were hospitalized, after a threatening letter arrived in the mail containing an unidentified white powder.

NEAR ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - After a century of broken promises, a paved road linking Kenya to Ethiopia is no longer a mirage for a desert region choked by remoteness.

QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) - Affluent Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia said it was on course to complete a partial pullback of troops from Georgia by Friday night but that a number of "peacekeeping forces" would stay in the country, something bound to anger the West.

LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's north African wing has claimed responsibility for two car bombs in Algeria which killed 12 people and wounded 42 this week, the Al Jazeera television network said on Thursday.

DENVER (Reuters) - A suburban Denver campaign office of U.S. presidential candidate John McCain was evacuated on Thursday, and several people went to a hospital, after receiving an envelope containing a threatening letter and an unidentified white powder, a campaign spokesman said.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A slim majority of Americans, including more conservatives and Republicans than previously, want to keep religion out of politics, a survey released on Thursday found.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police are in a "real war" against militias and drug gangs, the state governor in charge of the region said on Thursday, two days after gunmen murdered seven slum residents.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have agreed to speak at a New York City forum on public service to be held on September 11, the organizers said on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A white South African farmer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for feeding a black worker to a pack of lions was released on parole on Thursday after serving 3 years in jail, the SAPA news agency reported.

TBILISI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy warship will head through the Bosphorus on Friday taking relief supplies to Georgia, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy in Europe said.

PARIS (Reuters) - France paid tribute on Thursday to its 10 soldiers killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, and the government said parliament would debate the army's presence there after the country's worst military loss in 25 years.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court.

CHESTER, Virginia (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Thursday he would assemble a foreign policy team of the "best and the brightest" and mentioned some people who may be considered for jobs if he wins the White House.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health officials released a regulation on Thursday to protect health professionals who do not want to provide abortions or certain other health care services.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic got his wish for a different judge on Thursday when the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia assigned his war crimes case to a new chamber on procedural grounds.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Democrats gather in Denver next week to nominate Barack Obama for president, they'll be joined by such uninvited guests as Republicans Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday thanked Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned this week, for efforts in fighting terrorism and called Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to pledge support for going after extremists, the White House said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's show time for Barack Obama and John McCain, with back-to-back presidential nominating conventions offering them tightly-scripted spectacles designed to polish their images and highlight their messages.

QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) - Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.