links for 2006-05-20

HH: Mr. Secretary, do you think that American can lose this war? DR: Oh, sure. There's no way we can lose it on the battlefield. The only place we can lose it is if we lose our nerve, and if we decide that it's just too tough, and we're going to toss in t

a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

Saturday afternoon, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak opens the forum which brings together 1,000 political leaders and businessmen from around the world, among them Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Tur

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language "racist"