For all her talk about “full speed on to the White House,” there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton’s primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey “that has been a blessing for me.” More on The Five Mistakes Clinton Made

There is a lot of talk that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now fated to lose the Democratic nomination and should pull out of the race. We believe it is her right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so. That is the essence of the democratic process. More on New York Times Editorial: Sen. Clinton And The Campaign

NAIROBI, 08 May 2008 (UNPOS)–The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has expressed optimism ahead of talks between the Transitional Federal Government and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia due to open in Djibouti on May 10 2008. More on UN Special Representative pleased about Somali reconciliation talks

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving “our influence around the world.”

Witnesses say Islamist insurgents fired grenades at Ethiopian  Woyanne troop convoys, and the soldiers turned on civilians and killed at least 17 in two separate attacks in rural Somalia.

The witnesses say an unknown number of Ethiopian Woyannein soldiers died in Wednesday’s clashes as well as six insurgents. But a spokesman for the Islamist fighters says only two insurgents died. More on Witnesses: Civilians, soldiers killed in clashes in rural Somalia

(Garowe) — Ethiopian Woyanne troops in central Somalia were ambushed Wednesday as they withdrew from one town and were heading back towards the Ethiopian border, locals said.

The fighting erupted around noon as a 30-truck Ethiopian Woyanne army convoy left their positions in Bulo Burte, a town in Hiran region. More on Battle rages between Woyanne soldiers, Somali insurgents