* Bush vetoes Iraq troop withdrawal measure US President George W. Bush on Tuesday night vetoed legislation to pull US troops out of Iraq in a historic showdown with Congress.

* Shadowy Iraq office accused of sectarian agenda Iraq’s prime minister has created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda.

* Kadima faction chairman: If Olmert doesn’t resign, I will Kadima faction chairman Avigdor Yitzhaki told Israel Radio on Wednesday morning that if the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not heed calls to quit following the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War.

* Speaker of PA Legislature: Kill Every Last Jew & American In a televised address to a packed mosque, the Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Authority’s Legislative Council called for the killing of every last Jew and American.

* Olmert admits: I am not sure I will get through this The current political crisis might force him out of office, Prime Minister Ehud Olmertht was quoted as saying in a Channel 2 report Tuesday evening.

* Ancient Samaritan sect marks Passover sacrifice near Nablus Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of Israel’s most colorful religious ceremonies – the nighttime Passover sacrifice.

* EU officials call for end to PA embargo In a break with EU policy, European parliamentarians met Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City on Tuesday and called for an end to the aid embargo on the Palestinian Authority.

* Russian Political Movements Hold May Day Marches, Rallies in Moscow Thousands of Russians hit the streets of Moscow Tuesday as an array of political forces held marches and rallies on May Day.

* PM calls for new outpost removal plan Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has instructed Defense Minister Amir Peretz to present a plan for the evacuation of the illegal West Bank outposts by the end of the month.

* Will Turkey become an Islamist state? Turkey, the world’s prime example of a mainly Muslim country as a secular democratic state, may be losing that status.