Israel agreed to suspend its airstrikes for 48 hours while it investigates an air raid on the Lebanese town of Qana that killed dozens, many of them children. The attack increased pressure for a cease-fire.
The two families staying in the house in Qana that was struck by an Israeli missile had discussed leaving, but they were poor and travel was difficult.
Here's a nasty thought. Every day you and I subsidize the propagators of terrorism. To import oil for our cars, homes, and workplaces, America now spends and borrows a staggering $1 billion every single day. In the past four years alone, oil producers' revenue has grown from $300 billion a year to $800 billion. When oil goes up by a dollar a barrel, it costs us an additional $7.4 billion! An increasing share of that money goes to countries in the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, and through them to extremist religious groups who support Islamist militancy throughout the Middle East and beyond, disseminating a message of hatred and violence against western influence and ideas. Small wonder, then, that the overwhelming judgment from a hundred foreign policy experts polled in Foreign Policy magazine is that the highest priority in fighting terrorism must be to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
It's been nearly half a century since the birth control pill changed the way Americans manage their sex lives. But despite the availability of myriad methods of contraception today, a staggering 50 percent of pregnancies in the United States every year are unintentional--and 60 percent of those 3 million annual accidents occur when the woman is using birth control.
It was 2001, and Karen Tse had just founded a human-rights group that so far consisted of a name, a business card, and a staff of one: herself. The man she was flying across the world to see, a Chinese government official, was her only contact in the country she wanted to serve. So when he suddenly canceled, she was desperate. "He was my only choice," she says. "I had to get in." So she begged his assistant to reconsider and was allotted 15 minutes.
AP - Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike Sunday that killed at least 56 Lebanese, almost all of them women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
AP - The U.N. Security Council called Sunday for an end to the violence in Lebanon and deplored Israel's airstrike on a house in the village of Qana which killed 56 people, almost all of them women and children.
Israel: 48-hour halt of airstrikes on Lebanon Qana strike kills 60 civilians, many childrenU.N. Security Council calls for end to fightingBush urges all to work toward 'sustainable peace'
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Sunday stood by his statement that Friday morning's arrest of actor Mel Gibson on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol occurred "without incident."
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