World - Friday

• Investor's Business Daily
• On 7:01 pm EST, Friday November 6, 2009

Pakistan army moves on militants

The army pushed deeper into the last of 3 terrorist strongholds on Fri. in an offensive that has sparked a wave of retaliatory attacks, including the most recent one where gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in Islamabad. Militants hope the attacks will weaken the army's resolve, but the army pressed ahead, entering the hometown of former Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike in Aug.

ISRAEL: The foreign minister rejected a U.N. resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the vote as "detached from realities."

WEST BANK: No one in Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement announced plans to step into his shoes Fri. after Abbas announced Thu. that he would not seek re-election. Some close to the region's peace negotiations are being careful not to take his decision as irrevocable and suggest it could be a call to have more attention paid to the peace process.

SAUDI ARABIA: Officials said it carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on until the Yemeni border was secure.

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