President Bush?s vision for two-state peace is ambitious but his strategy is cautious, and the real measure of the talks will be what happens afterward.
Reflecting on his first year, the governor said that he knew he needed to temper his bluntness with diplomacy ? but also that problems overshadowed his administration?s real accomplishments.
Nawaz Sharif, the religiously conservative former prime minister, demanded an end to emergency rule and called for the reinstatement of fired Supreme Court justices.
AP - President Bush stepped cautiously into the most direct Mideast peacemaking of his administration on Monday, meeting separately with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to explore whether peace is possible. "Difficult compromises" will be required but the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are committed to making them, he said.
AP - A woman believed to be the mother of a 2-year-old whose body was found in Galveston Bay told police she and the girl's stepfather beat and tortured the child to death, court documents show.
AP - Two Republican senators said Monday that unless Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki makes more political progress by January, the U.S. should consider pulling political or financial support for his government.
Before dying, the child who captured national attention as "Baby Grace" was beaten with belts, picked up by her hair, thrown across the room and held under water, an affidavit alleges. It says the girl's mom told police how the body was dumped. Police now say the girl was Riley Ann Sawyers, whose father remembered her Monday as a "fun-loving girl."
Soldiers manning a checkpoint near Baghdad stopped a wedding convoy to find that the purported bride and groom were wanted terror suspects, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Monday. As soldiers searched the wedding cars, they found the veiled bride was actually a stubbly-faced man.
Attacks are down 75 percent in recent months in a perilous stretch of neighborhoods in northeastern Baghdad, prompting a U.S. military officer to proclaim Monday that security there is "dramatically improving."