Venezuela - Colombia
Chavez and Uribe: big falling-out for 'odd couple'
Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, March 5 (Reuters) - Latin America's one-time 'odd couple' is in no mood for hugging. A simmering dispute between Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe, the hard-willed, politically opposed presidents of Venezuela and Colombia, ...
Venezuela Troops, Tanks Mobilizing to Colombia Border (Update4) Bloomberg
Iran - European Union
Iran says will hold nuclear talks only with IAEA
Reuters - 51 minutes ago
By Edmund Blair TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday rejected a call by world powers for more nuclear talks with their envoy and said it would in future discuss its uranium enrichment program only with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Iran rejects new EU nuclear talks BBC News
United States
Justice Department finds improper use of subpoenas in terror, spy ...
USA Today - 2 hours ago
FBI Director Robert Mueller says a new report from the Justice Department will show that federal agents misused "national security letters" to obtain personal information about Americans during terrorism and espionage investigations in 2006.
Serbia - European Union
Serbian Nationalist MPs Seek Resolution Freezing Push Toward Ties ...
Voice of America - 47 minutes ago
By VOA News Nationalists in the Serbian parliament, angered by European backing for Kosovo's independence, have introduced a resolution that would freeze Belgrade's movement towards membership in the European Union.
EU calls on Serbia to commit to Europe Reuters
Crude Oil Prices - OPEC - Venezuela
Oil Rises Above $104 to Record on OPEC Output, Venezuela Tanks
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
By Mark Shenk March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose above $104 a barrel to a record in New York after OPEC gave no indication it will increase production, US fuel inventories declined and Venezuela sent tanks to its border with Colombia.
California Supreme Court and Gay Marriage
California Supreme Court in gay marriage storm
San Jose Mercury News - 2 hours ago
By Howard Mintz (Lt. to Rt.) Yevgeney Myknoylenko, of Sacramento, and Nickolay Gelis, of Sacramento, protested same sex marriage, while Luis Ituriol, of San Francisco, showed his support for it across the street from the California State Supreme Court ...
United States - Iran - Iraq
US-Iran talks on Iraq planned for Thursday
USA Today - 1 hour ago
BAGHDAD (AP) - US and Iranian officials will meet Thursday to discuss Iraq's security for the fourth time, just days after Iran's president demanded in Baghdad that American troops withdraw, Iraqi and Iranian officials said.
US envoy says no date set for Iran-US talks on Iraq Reuters
Israel - Palestine
Israel and the Palestinians 'agree to restart talks'
Times Online - 3 hours ago
Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to restart peace talks, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, said today. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, suspended discussions on Sunday after Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip ...
Abbas calls for calm before talks BBC News
The hartred which divides nation from nation,
race from race, class from class,
Father, forgive.
The covetous desires of people and nations
to possess what is not their own,
Father, forgive.
The greed which exploits the work of human hands,
and lays waste the earth,
Father, forgive.
Our envy of the welfare and happiness of others,
Father, forgive.
Our indifference to the plight of the imprisoned,
the homeless, the refugee,
Father, forgive.
The lust which dishonors the bodies
of men, women, and children,
Father, forgive.
The pride which leads to trust in ourselves
and not in God,
Father, forgive.
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,
as God in Christ forgave you.
--from Coventry Cathedral (1962)
I have retained the gender-limited language of the original litany.
--the BB
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