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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Perez and Palestinian cabinet minister Nabil Shaath met privately today in Athens, Greece. Violence has steadily escalated in the West Bank and Gaza in recent weeks.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports on two members of the new Israeli government who are known for their hard-line views. One has advocated expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza while the other has suggested Israel could attack Tehran or the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem. As Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon prepares to take office tomorrow, Palestinian militants have threatened bomb attacks in protest.

This week the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival features high school contributors. Jennifer Steele and Laura Mandelberg are two of the writers featured in the 10th annual Young Poets Competition, co-sponsored by the festival. They read from their poems for Weekend Edition.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books: the short story collection Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz and the novel Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Serambi Indonesia, the only daily newspaper in Aceh province, resumed publication Sunday for the first time since the tsunami destroyed its main offices.

U.S. expedition forces sweep across Kuwait's border into southern Iraq, preparing the battlefield for larger assaults. Airstrikes continue in Baghdad as the U.S. military tries to take out key Iraqi defenses there. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with Andrew Jack, outgoing Moscow bureau chief for the London-based Financial Times newspaper, about his new book Inside Putin's Russia.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the fledgling democracy in Sierra Leone, West Africa. A recently elected government there survived a coup attempt earlier this week and citizens are still hopeful that democracy will take hold in their country which has a long history of instability.

NPR's Jennifer Luden takes a look at Firestone/Bridgestone's efforts to rebuild its rubber plant operation in Liberia. The seven-year-long civil war there caused most foreign investors to abandon their operations and flee the country. Now that a peace plan in Liberia appears to be holding, Firestone, once the country's largest private sector employer, is rehiring and rebuilding.