24 June 2008

First Thing In the Morning

Your Tuesday morning news...

-From Israel: Gunshots fired at the Tel Aviv airport while French President Sarkozy, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres are there. Leaders were rushed away and are safe.

-Breaking the truce announced last week, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into the Israeli border town of Sderot today. No casualties have been reported.

-South Africa's governing ANC party has accused the Zimbabwean government of "riding roughshod" over democracy. The party said it was "dismayed" by the authorities' actions, and that free and fair elections were not possible. Oppposition presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai announced this past weekend that he was pulling, citing widespread violence as the reason.

- President Bush on Monday nominated a top logistics officer to be the first female four-star general in U.S. history, tapping Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody to head the command responsible for supplying the Army with all its equipment.