Meanwhile, In The Rest of the World...

Because there's crazy shit happening in the rest of the world too, here's a Sunday afternoon roundup of significant news from other countries on this crazy old planet of ours...

North Korea: North Korean nuclear talks reach deal / Taiwan: Taiwan party asserts separate identity / Burma: UN envoy meets Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi / Pakistan: Opposition vows fresh challenge to Musharraf / Afghanistan: Karzai offers Taliban government office / Middle East: Israel's raid on Syria - prelude to a nuke crisis? / Africa: Darfur attack kills 10 AU troops, 50 missing / Puerto Rico: Dengue fever surges in Latin America