Aid Slowly Reaching Sri Lanka’s War Refugees
A mother walked with her children as other civilians stood in line to receive food at the Manik Farm refugee camp on the outskirts of the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya on Tuesday. — NY TimesA Palestinian explosive killed an Israeli soldier just outside Gaza on Tuesday and Israel retaliated with an incursion that killed a Palestinian in the first serious confrontations between Hamas and Israel since each declared a tentative cease-fire 10 days ago. — International Herald Tribue
There was circumstantial evidence that India was going to make a quick strike against Pakistan to teach her a lesson,” he said. Mr Hassan said that in his opinion it was unlikely the two countries, which both possess nuclear weapons and have fought several wars since partition in 1947, would have ended up in all-out conflict.
— Pakistan ‘feared Indian attack’ — BBC
I rushed to the site and saw several girl students trapped in a bus and screaming for help. We took the girls outside the bus and rushed them to the hospitals.
— An Iraqi witness to a triple bombing that killed dozens in Baghdad.
…either convert to Islam or pay the jizyah or leave the city or face death.
— Leaflets distributed in predominately Christian neighborhoods in Mosul, Iraq.

