WORLD ISSUES From Issue #4 GLOBAL NEWS Read, contemplate, comment, discuss... Israel The conflict with the Palestinians gets progressively violent Canada Chris Hadfield becomes first Canadian to walk in space Macedonia Albanian guerrillas provoke the army to gain sympathy for independence Britain Disease outbreak leads to the biggest slaughter of farm animals in history Kyoto, Japan The United States has crippled the Kyoto climate agreement by pulling out San Francisco Napster continues to get squeezed by record companies Washington, DC New President Bush pushes through massive tax cut as economy falters Turkey Economic crisis leads to huge cash infusion by Western nations Moscow Delegates meet in Russia's capital to choose Olympic venue for 2008 South China Sea China nabs a U.S. spy plane after a mid-air collision