In the fight over who's a better conservative, antagonism is heating up between McCain and Romney, the Republican Party's leading presidential candidates.
"I didn't come here to umpire a ballgame between these two," an irritated Huckabee said at one point, motioning to McCain and Romney. "I came here to get a chance to swing at a few myself." Hoping to take a few swings, Huckabee has kept himself in the race that increasingly appears to be a two-man race.
The "Pink Gang" is bringing a new type of vigilante order to India's Uttar Pradesh.
In Kenya, a second legislator from the opposition party was killed Thursday in what government officials are calling a "crime of passion" stemming from a love triangle. Opposition leaders consider the killing an assassination. Though the UN are over-seeing political negotiations, panic, violence and chaos erupted across Kenya in response to news of the killing.
Following damage to two undersea cables, Internet access, international phone and other services were disrupted in the Middle East and India. Emergency crews are working to repair the damage, which may have been caused by an anchor in the port at Alexandria, Egypt.
As America's War in Iraq continues without a clear end in sight, questions of military mental health and the experience of returning from war require careful consideration. After receiving some hostile criticism for its method of reporting on crimes committed by soldiers returned from Iraq, the New York Times today reported upon a study that suggests post-traumatic stress disorder and depression might be the more pervasive the causes of the post-war symptoms than physical head trauma. Active-duty mental health concerns are also an issue with soldier suicides at record levels. Even after the final troops have been withdrawn from Iraq, American will continue to deal with the effects of war on the thousands of youth sent to war–definitely a cost worth considering.
With Waziristan sliding further into chaos, the CIA seems to be taking matters into its own hands. Thirteen militants were killed during a missile strike that is "believed to have been carried out by a pilotless U.S. Predator aircraft flown across the nearby border with Afghanistan". Though the United States has been working with Pakistan's military leadership in the "war on terror", Pakistan has repeatedly said "it will not tolerate violations of its territorial sovereignty". Such covert operations threaten to upset the delicate balance of power in the US-Pakistani alliance.
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