Bush calls for stricter sanctions against Sudan

Hello on this Tuesday, the 29 day of May 2007. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline update.

President Bush is ordering tighter sanctions against Sudan's government. Bush is following through on a threat made six weeks ago to pursue tougher actions against a government that he says refuses to stop the violence in the Darfur region. The President is urging Sudan's president to let international peacekeepers into the region. He's also asked U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consult with Britain and other allies on pursuing new U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country.

Iran has reportedly offered nuclear help to its neighbors. The Iranian foreign minister says there's nothing stopping the country from assisting its Persian Gulf neighbors from developing nuclear power facilities. The official says Iran is cooperating fully with the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency and is free to cooperate with the Persian Gulf countries in offering technology.

The parents of a missing 4-year-old British girl are meeting with the pope. Madeleine McCann's family will meet the pontiff tomorrow during his weekly audience with the faithful at St. Peter's Square. The little girl disappeared about a month ago when her parents left her and her two-year-old twin siblings alone in their hotel room in Portugal while they went to a restaurant. Portuguese and British authorities have been investigating the girl's disappearance.

Anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan is giving up her fight. Sheehan, who's son was killed in Iraq, says she's walking away from her protest against the Iraq war. She said the past two years have exhausted her personally, financially and emotionally. Sheehan added that her son died for nothing while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

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[caramelatte1993]

Condoleza looks fried

[HailToTheSkunk]

Kill the pope!!!!!

God save the queen

[oscillator]

What do these idiots think the Pope is gonna do?