The victims of shifting borders, politics, or the happenstance of birthplace, the world's 12 million stateless people and their need to become a citizen are rising on the international human rights agenda.
AP - Gen. David Petraeus boldly declared "we are in this to win" Sunday as he took command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan at a time of skepticism over a counterinsurgency strategy he himself pioneered and confusion over goals in an increasingly violent war.
AP - Vice President Joe Biden urged rival Iraqi politicians Sunday to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy, predicting a peaceful transition of power even as suicide bombers struck government centers in two major cities.
ABC's Mike Gudgell tells the first-person story of Sgt. James Hunter, a U.S. Army public affairs officer, the first army journalist to be killed in the fighting in Afghanistan. He was killed by an IED left by Taliban forces, and he was Gudgell's friend.
The July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan is unrealistic and unhelpful, Afghan Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad told CNN today.
Polls opened in Mexico today in an election that could help the opposition party. Drug cartel violence has shaken the vote -- a gunman killed a candidate last week.