Texas Rep. Tom DeLay is planning to resign.  This comes on the heels of his former aide, Tony Rudy, pleading guilty to conspiracy.  DeLay said that “The Abramoff affair has nothing to do with me,” and that “liberal Democrats” had been making his reelection campaign difficult and negative-toned.

Saddam Hussein is being charged with genocide for the “Anfal campaign” against Kurds which resulted in the deaths of 180,000 civilians in the 1980s.  These charges add to the ones he already faces for the deaths of 148 people in the town of Dujail after an assassination attempt.  The Anfal campaign is infamous in part because it used poison gas to kill 5,000 Kurds.

Two Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli missile attack.  The Israeli military said that the strike, which made deep craters near the Palestinian Authority offices, was a response to Palestinian rocket attacks in southern Israel early Tuesday. "This escalation will lead the area to more violence and instability," said a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas.

Jan Egeland, the UN’s top humanitarian official, was prevented from visiting some of the 200,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad by the government of Sudan.  On Monday he was not allowed to travel to Darfur, and the government has withheld permission for him to fly over the country to reach Chad.  Egeland calls these decisions from the Sudanese authorities “systematic obstruction.”

Tom Delay’s not the only one…Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is resigning after a snap poll on Sunday failed to appease public discontent.  Opponents of Thaksin accuse him of corruption and abuse of power.  This is a quick turnaround from yesterday, when Thaksin that his leadership “still passed the examination.”