Back-channel discussions between Syria and Israel are being facilitated by Turkey, which has close ties to Israel and growing ties to Syria. The United States is supportive of the effort.
An international relief operation was being mobilized as the government raised its estimate of the death toll and reported 41,000 people still missing.
AP - The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battled in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries on Tuesday, the last big-delegate prizes left in their marathon race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
AP - Nearly 100 people, most of them students, were arrested in an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student's fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday.
Poll workers in Indiana and North Carolina report heavy turnout for today's primaries that could be crucial to the Democratic presidential nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Polling officials at one Indianapolis precinct said that they almost matched the record for an entire day after just 4 hours.
President Bush joined a chorus of international leaders urging Myanmar's reclusive military government to allow the flow of aid after a disastrous weekend cyclone killed tens of thousands of people.