OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Boosted by the resignation of the army chief of staff over the failures of last summer’s conflict with Hizbollah, the fledgling Israeli protest movement over the war has turned to new weapons — cartoons and song.

ERBIL — A Christian shopkeeper who walks with a limp, Adison Brikha fled Baghdad after he was beaten in his shop. He made it to Erbil, in relatively peaceful Iraqi Kurdistan — but now he’s begging for work.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union threatened Sudan with sanctions on Monday if it refused to allow UN peacekeepers into war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was not enough to stop the killings.