The new Human Rights Council at the UN starts off on the wrong foot, electing China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Azerbaijan, and Pakistan as members.
Let's try carrots one more time: German, French, and British negotiators plan to offer an "ambitious package" of incentives if Iran decides to resume negotiations.
The UN, EU, US, and Russia agree to pay the Palestinian Authority's salaries, bypassing the Hamas government. In the meantime, Israel gives Hamas until the end of 2006 to disarm and recognize Israel's right to exist: after that it will unilaterally define its borders.
Putin gives the State of the Nation address, underlining innovation and demographic decline as critical issues, and replies to Cheney's criticism in tone.
Iraqis continue to die by the dozens; partitioning the country might not be a great idea, says Anthony Cordesman of CSIS.
After three failed votes, the Italian Parliament finally manages to elect an 80 year-old as President of the Republic, while the European Commission debates what to write in a paper stating its position on another piece of paper, the EU constitution
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