AP: "U.N. officials charged Tuesday that organized gangs of masked fighters launched a series of coordinated attacks last week that sparked the wave of ethnic fighting in Kyrgyzstan. According to the Red Cross, the rampages, arsons and murders have killed several hundred people."

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PA 2010: “I’m a pro-life Democrat who helped to eliminate federal funding for abortion in the health care bill,” Dahlkemper said. “I think my constituents support that vote, and those who don’t at least understand why I cast it.

The Times-Picayune: "Bills to bar insurers from covering elective abortion, and making it easier for state health authorities to shut down abortion clinics, are close to becoming law after receiving overwhelming support from the state Senate on Monday."

Nicholas Kristof: "Darfur seems to have been forgotten, but the killings continue. After a lull, the pace of killings has increased lately, with some 600 people killed violently last month alone."

John Avlon: "And while the ideological purges in the Democratic Party are still in amateur hour compared to the GOP, the impulse is similar, and it is growing."

Huffington Post: "Congress is poised to take action to confront one of the most intractable problems in one of the most violent places on earth: conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo."

TPM: "Using catchy slogans and scary rhetoric, the Republicans have done a masterful job of painting themselves as the party of austerity and fiscal discipline. "Where are the jobs?" "Runaway deficits." "Government takeover." After years of profligacy, they say, they've gotten religion, and can be trusted to run the show once again. But scratch lightly … Continue reading Boehner's Recipe For Recovery Same As Bush's

CNN: "Seven former high-ranking Bosnian Serb military and police officials were convicted Thursday for their roles in the notorious 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the war crimes tribunal in The Hague said."

NY Times: "The United States, moving firmly away from the Obama administration’s previous emphasis on wooing Iran, pushed through a new round of United Nations sanctions against the nation on Wednesday, taking aim at its military in yet another attempt to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program."