
Time for political process to end Syria bloodshed
Kofi Annan told a Cairo news conference this week that his top priority is to end the violence and deliver badly needed humanitarian aid.

Poem of the week: Nizar Qabbani’s “The Old World is Dead”
This unnamed verse, written in 1970, seems as if it could have been written yesterday in half a dozen nations - and in some U.S. states as well.


