It's time for Hamas and Israel to declare, accept and honor a cease-fire before hostilities escalate even more, and as of this writing diplomatic efforts aimed at a truce were under way.
Other aspects of the truce are problematic: the leaders of Turkey, a member of nato, have declared that they will not honor the truce with respect to Kurdish forces in Syria, which they see as a branch of the Kurdish insurgency in their country.
Last Monday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appealed for concrete outside help in keeping pressure on the Tigers to honor this truce, and in rebuilding the economy.
I don't know whether, in the end, this dish truly reclaims the pasta-salad family honor, or merely declares a truce with its unctuous cousin.
(Reuters) AFRICA ETHIOPIA: TRUCE AND TROOPS In a possible setback for peace in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has threatened to keep its troops in southern Eritrea until Eritrea honors its truce commitments.
1915, France: On the Western Front, German and French infantrymen negotiate a truce in honor of April Fools' and have a celebration in the no man's land between their trenches, leaving their guns behind.
Unlike Mr. Spitzer, Gov. David A. Paterson has signaled that he will honor the old campaigning truce this fall and stay out of Senate races, despite raising $3.3 million on his own.
A truce has been called in the war at Theodore Roosevelt Park over where to place a granite pillar to honor American Nobel laureates.
The police brokered a truce.
