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As tensions escalate on the Turkish-Iraq border, Iraqi Kurds express their sentiment that Turkey's real enemy is not the PKK but an autonomous Kurdish region.

More than 100 Buddhist monks march in northern Myanmar, the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters.

Police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad detain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, preventing her from leading a protest march against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of the state of emergency. There are also reports that thousands of Bhutto supporters have been rounded up.

Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, ends an eight-year exile to return to Pakistan. Supporters welcomed her in Karachi. She has been negotiating a possible power sharing deal with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized leadership in a bloodless coup in 1999.

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.

Turkey continues to voice its opposition to a controversial resolution circulating in the U.S. House regarding the 1915 mass killing of more than a million Armenians. The Turkish government has threatened to curtail military ties with the U.S., and lawmakers are withdrawing their support of the resolution.

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.

Confirmation hearings are taking place on Capitol Hill for the next attorney general. Former federal Judge Michael Mukasey was nominated by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales.

By New Jersey U.S. Attorney Chris Christie's count, he has prosecuted 126 Garden State officials on corruption charges in his six years on the job. Most officials Christie has prosecuted have been Democrats, and some charge him of "political profiling."