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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will be symbolically put forward as a presidential candidate at the Democratic convention later this month even though she narrowly lost the nominating battle to Barack Obama, the two campaigns said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters are expected to jam the streets of Denver and St. Paul at the Republican and Democratic conventions in a noisy counterpoint to the parties' carefully scripted speeches.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Four people have been killed in flooding and landslides in Laos, where the Mekong river has hit its highest level in at least 100 years after several months of unusually heavy rain, officials said on Friday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - President Lee Myung-bak, stung by months of protest against his brief rule, marked South Korea's 60th anniversary on Friday with a call for a fresh start and a warning to demonstrators who have hobbled his plans for change.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska urged a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the criminal charges against him, arguing that only the Senate may discipline him for any violations of Senate rules.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism.

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Barack Obama was leaving Hawaii on Friday and hoping to return the next time as president of the United States if he beats Republican rival John McCain in November.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The school priest wanted to convert Andrei to Romania's Orthodox Christianity, because his school could not hire a teacher for religion classes for the 12-year-old Adventist.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The narrow tunnel that ran beneath Sarajevo airport was people's only escape route during the longest siege in modern history, a symbol of a brutal war that split families and pitted neighbors against each other.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stepped-up international pressure and sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are hurting its economy, making trade financing and payments difficult and discouraging foreign investment, according to an IMF report published on Thursday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its Web site, citing government officials and a member of his circle.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India rolled out a security clampdown on Friday ahead of annual Independence Day celebrations following recent bomb attacks on some of its cities and violent protests in its northern region of Kashmir.

ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain said Thursday he supports a strong dollar and said the currency would respond to the economy if the right policies were implemented to make it grow faster.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska urged a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the criminal charges against him, arguing that only the Senate may discipline him for any violations of Senate rules.

LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its website on Thursday, citing government officials and a member of his circle.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that seeks to protect college students from lending abuses while boosting student aid was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Thursday as students across the United States prepare to head to college.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland agreed on Thursday in the midst of the Georgia crisis that it would host elements of a U.S. global anti-missile system after Washington agreed to boost Poland's own air defenses.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police shot dead a Muslim protester as huge crowds shouting "we want freedom" took to the streets of Kashmir on Thursday over a land row that is testing New Delhi's hold on the troubled Himalayan region.