UN lashes out at Israeli bombings
UNITED NATIONS — A horrific July 30 attack by the Israel Defense Forces on the southern Lebanese village of Qana, combined with ongoing violence that had already claimed hundreds of lives, has prompted outrage at the highest levels of the UN’s leadership.
EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know it.
More calls for Iraq troop pullout
Key congressional Democratic leaders have called on President Bush to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.
Despite world outcry, Israel launches ground attack on Lebanon
Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage — the Israeli government brusquely rejected worldwide calls for an immediate cease-fire.
