Praising Lebanon for backing a peacekeeping plan, the secretary of state is pressing for the insertion of an international force along the Lebanese border with Israel.
It is one of the most striking shifts in human existence - a change from small, sickly people to humans who are so robust that their ancestors seem almost unrecognizable.
Originally, the Doha round of the World Trade Organization trade talks was supposed to be the "development round," helping to alleviate global poverty by boosting trade to the developing world. But that vision is now gone--the negotiations, begun just after 9/11, have pretty much collapsed, and not many believe that they can be revived in the near future.
A British company reported Wednesday it had achieved the best results ever seen on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu and said mass production might be possible by 2007. A global health official called GlaxoSmithKline's early results "an exciting piece of science." If future tests are as promising, it would be a major step in the frustrating campaign to protect people from a possible deadly flu pandemic.
BEIRUT--The refugees come in hundreds of cars along the twisted mountain roads in the Chouf Mountains. The ride from Tyre to Beirut is normally 45 miles along a major highway that takes, even with traffic, maybe an hour or so to drive. But the highways now are almost completely cut at each overpass or bridge south of Beirut. From Tyre to Sidon, you can use the highway with long detours and impromptu dirt paths around the destruction, but once you hit Sidon, just 30 minutes south of Beirut, the cars have to wend their way through the mountains, through Druze and Christian villages that have not been targeted, for more than three hours.
AP - Israeli troops pulled back from a key Lebanese border town Saturday where it battled Hezbollah for a week, claiming to have finished its mission after the bloodiest ground fight of the 18-day war. Israeli warplanes blasted bridges and demolished houses in southern Lebanon, killing seven people, including a woman and her five children.
AP - Hezbollah's leader on Saturday threatened more attacks on central Israeli cities, a day after guerrillas for the first time fired a rocket powerful enough to reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
AP - The U.S. military said Saturday that it is moving about 3,700 troops with fast, light-armored vehicles into Baghdad to try to quell violence in the capital. More American soldiers are expected to follow, military officials said.
Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel to push peace Hezbollah chief says Israel failing to beat guerrillasIsrael rejects 72-hour humanitarian cease-fireHezbollah agrees to parts of Lebanese truce plan Civilians killed in Lebanon; rockets hit Israel
Seattle police are beefing up security at temples and mosques Saturday after a woman was killed in a suspected hate crime killing linked to the Middle East crisis.
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