Morning Brief, Monday, August 28

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Monday, August 28, 2006 - 12:39 PM Share

Lebanon and Gaza

In perhaps the last big diplomatic trip of his tenure as secretary-general, Kofi Annan heads to the Middle East to drum up support for a multinational force to police the cease-fire. Turkey, where Annan will visit at some point during his 11-day tour, today announced that its cabinet had approved sending peacekeepers to Lebanon.

Two Fox journalists were released in Gaza yesterday after being forced on camera to say that they'd converted to Islam. Doug Struck reports on the deepening poverty and desperation in Gaza.

Hezbollah chief Nasrallah says that if he'd known what would follow the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, he wouldn't have given the order.

Blasts in Turkey

Four bombs go off at a popular Turkish resort, wounding more than two dozen, including 10 Britons. Kurdish separatists are being named as suspects.

Iraq

More than a dozen are killed in a car bombing near the Interior Ministry, and members of Sadr's Mahdi Army clash with Iraqi soldiers in the south.

Elsewhere

Just after Iran's Ahmadinejad opens a heavy water plant that could aid the production of nuclear weapons, the Iranian navy test-fires a long-range missile from a submarine in the Persian Gulf.

Unrest and hundreds are arrested in Quetta, Pakistan, after a top rebel leader in Baluchistan is killed in fighting.

A suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan kills more than 17. And more election chaos in Mexico.

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