Reuters - The Israeli army said on Sunday it was
investigating the death of a Reuters cameraman in the Gaza
Strip last week and declined to say why one of its tanks opened
fire, killing the journalist and five other Palestinians.
AP - As of Sunday, April 20, 2008, at least 4,039 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,295 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass and American Catholicism in storied Yankee Stadium on Sunday, telling his massive U.S. flock to use its freedoms wisely as he closed out his first papal trip to the United States.
AFP - At least eight Palestinians were killed Sunday after Israeli forces launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip, a day after Hamas militants detonated explosives-laden vehicles at a border crossing.
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said
on Sunday he would consult President George W. Bush this week
on ways to advance peace talks so that a deal with Israel can
be reached by the end of the year.
AFP - Pope Benedict XVI paid a solemn visit Sunday to the site of the attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York before celebrating a huge mass at Yankee Stadium to close a historic US visit.
AP - The Israeli army announced Sunday it will investigate the killing of a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, after a human rights group said it found evidence suggesting that an Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist.
AP - The family of a contractor kidnapped in Iraq said Sunday that U.S. officials have notified them they've found a body that could be his.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD_ U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad Sunday for an unannounced visit one day after the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr threatened an all-out war against the Iraqi government.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.