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The death, destruction and human misery in Sudan's western region of Darfur may now be worse than at any time since the conflict started four years ago - if that's possible.

Better to underpromise and overdeliver-- than overpromise and underdeliver.  Someone should share this sage advice with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, which has recently been promising Osama bin Laden's head on a silver platter by year's end.

Largely invisible to most Americans, just to the south, the security situation is worsening as a result of an intense conflict between the Mexican government and domestic drug cartels — and even among the narco-gangs themselves.

Like the bone-chilling Siberian winter winds, the bad news just keeps howling out of Mother Russia these days.

The Pakistani government's summer truce with the pro-Taliban tribesman in northern Waziristan, on the Afghan border, may be good for President Pervez Musharraf's political health, but it's sure hurting Afghanistan - where the Coalition fight with the Taliban is definitely on.