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President Bush met Monday with the Turkish prime minister — in hopes of defusing a conflict at the Iraqi border between Turkey and Kurdish militants. The president also spoke about the crisis in Pakistan, where President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule Saturday.

President Bush is hoping that a meeting with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan could ease tensions along Iraq's northern border, where tens of thousands of Turkish troops were poised to move against Kurdish rebels.

Human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir, who is currently under house arrest in Lahore, talks about her detention, the state of the emergency rule in Pakistan and Friday's scheduled protests.

The U.S. is reviewing its aid to Pakistan, about $10 billion in overt funding since 2001. Yet the Bush administration may push for continuing military aid for the Pakistani army's counterinsurgency operations, says analyst Steve Coll of the New America Foundation.

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif says the U.S. must "put its foot down" with President Pervez Musharraf if it is sincere in its support of democracy in Pakistan. He calls the U.S. response so far to Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule "lukewarm" and "disturbing."

French charity workers planned a flight for more than 100 African children who were heading to foster care in Europe. The children were supposedly orphans from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, but United Nations officials found the vast majority are not orphans, and aren't from Darfur.

The plan would require citizen-led constitutional amendments to get 60% approval on the ballot in order to pass

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, a senior adviser to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, blames scant security by the Pakistani government for the bombing attack hours after Bhutto's return to Pakistan after eight years in exile.

In the second day of his confirmation hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey on Thursday refused to say that waterboarding is torture. He declined to say that he rejects waterboarding, saying only that if it is torture, it can't be used.

President Bush tried to devote his news conference at the White House on Wednesday to domestic issues, but he soon found that reporters had foreign-policy questions on their minds — many focusing on Iraq or Iran.