News from Around the World

Those who fail to learn history are bound to re-live it:

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pressed the U.S. to threaten Iran with international sanctions, warning Iran was quickly approaching a point of no-return in its nuclear program. Sharon, who leaves for home Wednesday after a visit to the United States, repeatedly brought up the Iranian threat in talks with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. At a lunch meeting Monday with the president at his Texas ranch, Sharon’s senior military adviser Brig. Gen. Yoav Galant gave Bush Israeli intelligence documents on Iran’s...