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U.S. officials say American forces have captured the southern Iraq city of Nasiriyah and secured a nearby bridge over the Euphrates River, allowing troops to continue their drive toward Baghdad. There had been fears Iraqis would destroy major bridges to impede the U.S. and British advance. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Pentagon officials say they're starting to see a breakdown among Republican Guard forces outside Baghdad as ground battles and heavy airstrikes take their toll. The Pentagon also raises the possibility that Saddam Hussein is dead or in flight. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from the Pentagon with an overview of today's events in Iraq. U.S. military leaders are being questioned about the deaths of at least three journalists in Baghdad as a result of U.S. fire. Pentagon officials also described the attack on a building where Saddam Hussein and his sons might have been meeting but can't confirm whether they were killed or injured.

The Bush administration is warning Syria not to offer a haven to any fleeing members of the Iraqi regime. Speculation that Syria might be the next nation to attract U.S. military attention is debated on Capitol Hill. But the Pentagon and some analysts downplay the possibility. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

The U.S. military signs a truce with an Iranian opposition group the State Department had previously labeled a terrorist organization. The Mujahedeen Khalq, some 10,000 armed fighters, operates just inside Iraq with the intent of overturning the religious government of neighboring Iran. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Abandoned imaginary friends now have a place to call home. Craig McCracken, whose Powerpuff Girls took the nation by storm in the 1990s, has a new Cartoon Network series: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Hear McCracken and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

The director of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Nanette Burstein, has a new reality series on the Independent Film Channel. Film School tracks four NYU students as they struggle to make their films -- and a career. Hear Burstein and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

A group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claims responsibility for killing 49 soldiers from the new Iraqi Army. The men, unarmed as they traveled home after training, were shot in a mass execution near the Iranian border. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Emily Harris.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that today is the deadline Tanzania had given Rwandan refugees to leave their camps and go home. Nearly all of the half-million Rwandans in Tanzania have done so. But relief officials estimate there are still at least two or three hundred thousand Rwandans stuck in a remote area of eastern Zaire, without access to sufficient food or medicine. These refugees apparently include many who perpetrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Daniel speaks to NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Kigali, Rwanda about the ongoing trials of two men accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The government has identified some 2,000 people it thinks are responsible for orchestrating the killings but it does not have the money to provide defense lawyers for each and everyone which makes many wonder whether these trials are fair. Government officials say the justice system was demolished after the geonocide and they are doing the best they can.