Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate conservatives and the Bush administration are taking aim at billions of dollars of non-war spending added to President Bush’s $100 billion funding request for Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to money and equipment for overseas troops, there is $100 million for state and …

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to meet every two weeks for a peace talk with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to focus on the day-to-day movement and access of Palestinians in and out of Gaza, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday.

As many as 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday when the wall of a large cesspool in northern Gaza collapsed, flooding the village of Umm Nasser with raw sewage.