This Week

This week there was a major earthquake in Chile, a devastating cyclone in Bangladesh, coldest winter in decades in South America, and serious trouble in the Middle East.

But, the most interesting event in recent history will be Annapolis Summit planned for the week after Thanksgiving. It appears Olmert is prepared to surrender East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to Abbas. Many Bible students are questions that decision. Will God be pleased?

The President Bush and the Europeans are putting a lot of pressure on Israel to accept the two state solution as well as the surrender of Jerusalem. Bill Clinton attempted to do the same with Arafat at Camp David. It just did not work. We will see.

Cyclone leaves thousands dead, millions homeless in Bangladesh

BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Thousands of people are believed dead and millions are homeless and destitute after the worst cyclone in years tore through impoverished Bangladesh, officials said Saturday.

More than 1,723 people were confirmed to have died and the number was rising by the hour as soldiers and relief workers battled to reach the worst-hit coastal districts that were smashed late Thursday as cyclone Sidr roared in from the Bay of Bengal.

"We are expecting that thousands of dead bodies may be found within a few days," the deputy head of the government's disaster management office, Shekhar Chandra Das, told AFP in the capital Dhaka.

"We have not been able to collect information about casualties in many remote and impassable places due to the disruption to communications," he said.