What you missed during the Gonzales debacle

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Friday, March 23, 2007 - 5:18 PM Share

It's been all Gone-zales, all the time this week in Washington, not to mention the four-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. So what else happened around the world this week that wasn't included in 3,000 pages of Justice Department emails? A humble round-up:

Darfur's camps are packed to capacity.
Drug violence in Mexico is killing cops in record numbers: more than 60 since the beginning of the year.
Press freedom in Russia takes another knock, with the country's richest woman successfully suing Forbes for defamation. The magazine suggested that her husband, Moscow's mayor, helped her business interests.
Al Qaeda cements its place in Somalia by naming a ruthless, Afghanistan-trained militant its leader in the country.
In Iraq, the government and some insurgent groups are in talks to join forces against al Qaeda.
Fierce clashes between foreign fighters and Pakistani tribesmen in the North West Frontier Province leave more than 160 dead.
Two years after former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed in a car bomb, the U.N. team investigating his death wants another year to pursue its case. Too bad Syrian President Bashar Assad has said there's no way he'll allow an international tribunal to go forward.

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