Turkey - Kurdistan - Iraq'No timetable' for Turkey assault
BBC News - 59 minutes ago
A senior Turkish official has said there is no timetable for an end to military operations against Kurdish PKK separatists in northern Iraq.
Israel - Palestine
Israeli Air Strikes Kill 6 Militants in Gaza
Voice of America - 1 hour ago
By VOA News The Palestinian militant group Hamas says five of its members were killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza Wednesday.
Pakistan
US cautions Pakistan over TalebanBBC News - 2 hours ago
The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that any new government in Pakistan should be wary of holding talks with pro-Taleban insurgents.
Election Victors Pressure Musharraf The Associated Press
Pakistani opposition claims two-thirds majority in parliament Monsters and Critics.com
Kenya
Annan to Press Feuding Kenyan Factions to Reach Agreement
Voice of America - 2 hours ago
By VOA News Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the chief mediator in Kenya's political crisis talks, is pressing the nation's rival leaders to reach some level of compromise.
Afghanistan - Iraq - U.S. Military
More troops for Iraq and Afghanistan, Defense Department says
Christian Science Monitor - 51 minutes ago
By David Montero The Defense Department says it needs more troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. But an Army general warns that troops already in the fight are under too much strain.
US Army aims to cut Iraq tours in summer -general Reuters
Azerbaijan - Kazakhstan
Drug-Resistant TB Rates Soar in Former Soviet Regions
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN Drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded globally, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
India - United States
Gates in India to Expand Security Ties
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By MARK MAZZETTI and SOMINI SENGUPTA NEW DELHI - With a landmark nuclear pact between the United States and India stalled, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Wednesday that the two nations would nonetheless strengthen their security ties as India ...
India urged to sign nuclear pact BBC News
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1 comment:
What a beautiful and reverent thing- prayer for the world.
Now having said that, let my more base self say this- you have never heard me go off on Israel have you? The land that I have been to twice, that tears my heart in two?
Another blogger wants me to write about this topic on his blog but I am simply too busy and frankly, too apoplectic to do so at this moment.
God have mercy on us all.
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