North Korean leaders say that they will respond to any pre-emptive attack from the US with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war." (Associated Press).(Spaceflight Now/CBS News) (MSNBC) (Reuters) Despite the crack, NASA decides to proceed with the launch, scheduled for 2:38 PM ET Tuesday, which would be the first manned launch on the United States Independence Day. The Space Shuttle Discovery's launch on STS-121 is thrown in doubt when a 3 inch crack is found in the foam insulation of its external tank.More than 1200 Qassam rockets, three of them on Sunday, were launched since October 2001, killing 12 Israeli civilians and a comparable number of Palestinian civilians. Israeli PM approves a military operation in the northern Gaza Strip aimed at halting Qassam rocket attacks.Israeli ground forces deployed in Dahaniya airport kill three approaching Palestinian gunmen, two of them strapped to explosive belts.Hamas spokesperson threatens further attacks against Israeli schools and power plants if the military campaign to free the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit continues.Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz warns stepping up quality of targets, reiterating the responsibility of Syrian president Bashar Assad for the continued crisis. Two other Hamas operatives are killed in two separate aerial strikes. Israel strikes an empty office of Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh.Israeli-Palestinian conflict ( Operation Summer Rains):.In Pakistan, all parliament members from the Jamaat-e-Islami political movement resign over fighting between the army and terrorists in Waziristan and General Musharraf's support for the United States in an effort to force Musharraf to step down.The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery is postponed until Tuesday at 2:38pm local time due to stormy weather in Florida.Iraqi authorities distribute a most wanted fugitives list containing Saddam Hussein's wife and daughter and with Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri at the top of the list.Exit polls show the presidential race between Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City, as too close to call. Polling closes in the Mexican general election, with voters electing a new President, both houses of Congress, and four state/district governors.According to Bono in a recent CNN interview, not enough is being done to make trade fair. One year on from the Live 8 concerts, U2 frontman Bono announces that world leaders are not making good on their promises to Africa.A ceremony is held at Thiepval, Picardy, in France, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.No other news source confirms this report. ![]()
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