AP - Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces
AP - The White House said Thursday that North Korea's secret work on a nuclear reactor with Syria was "a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the world," raising doubts about Pyongyang's intention to carry through with a promised disclosure of its nuclear activities.
Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
assured Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that
Palestinian statehood remained a high priority in his final 10
months in office despite faltering peace talks.
Reuters - The United States on Thursday
released photographs of what it said was a Syrian nuclear
reactor built with North Korean help, in an effort to pressure
Pyongyang to fully disclose its nuclear activities.
AP - President Bush sought Thursday to inject some confidence into the flagging Mideast peace process, pledging that the contours of a Palestinian state can still be reached before he leaves office. But old obstacles, mainly disputed West Bank settlements, continue to threaten that prospect.
AP - As of Thursday, April 24, 2008, at least 4,050 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 3,301 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - The Palestinian group Hamas is proposing a six-month cease-fire with Israel, saying it will stop firing rockets out of Gaza if the Jewish state simultaneously lifts its blockade of the coastal strip, Egypt's state run MENA news agency said Thursday night.
Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on
Thursday proposed a six-month truce between Israel and
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with an option to extend it to
include Palestinians in the West Bank.
AP - Defying President Bush's threatened veto, the House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill making the Coast Guard enforce security zones around eight liquefied natural gas terminals and any arriving tankers _all potential terrorism targets.
AFP - The United States accused North Korea on Thursday of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor, charging that the secret facility had a military purpose until Israel destroyed it in a September raid.