AP – Two American soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder for allegedly killing three Iraqis and then planting weapons on their bodies to portray them as combatants, the U.S. military said Saturday.

SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Commission said Sunday it is working on measures to create an active market for credit derivatives trading as part of a measure to nurture the derivatives market in Korea.

AP – Reports of 20 beheaded bodies found south of Baghdad earlier this week were untrue and may have been fabricated by insurgents aiming to incite violence and revenge killings, the U.S. military said Saturday.

AP – As of Saturday, June 30, 2007, at least 3,577 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,934 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

AFP – US forces found around 40 bodies, bound and shot, in a fresh mass grave south of Fallujah, the military said Saturday as it reported 26 militants were killed in heavy fighting in Baghdad.

AFP – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged Sunni lawmakers to end their boycott of his cabinet on Saturday, insisting that the case of a Sunni minister accused of terrorism is a purely judicial matter.

AP – President Bush, who faces mounting congressional pressure to end the war, called Saturday for patience as U.S. forces conduct stepped-up operations in Iraq.

AFP – Two US soldiers have been charged with the deliberate murder of three unarmed Iraqis and with dropping weapons by their bodies to frame them as gunmen, the military said on Saturday.

AP – Two U.S. soldiers were charged with the premeditated murder of three Iraqis, while 26 people died in American raids in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, the U.S. military said Saturday.

AFP – US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters killed 26 militants suspected of links to "Iranian terror networks" in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City on Saturday, the US military said.