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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major opinion on Tuesday that limits the force of many U.S. treaties and rejects President Bush's assertion that he can unilaterally order state governments to comply with treaties.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments on whether American citizens held by U.S. forces in Iraq may be turned over to Iraqi courts without recourse in U.S. courts. Two Americans are being held by the military in Iraq. They are accused of aiding terrorists.

Taiwan elects a new president, who is promising to strengthen ties with China. Ma Ying-jeou is a graduate of Harvard University and former mayor of Taipei. Ma's victory is seen as an opportunity to defuse long-simmering tensions with Beijing over the outgoing president's pro-independence moves.

On the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, President Bush acknowledged Wednesday that there is "understandable debate" over the conflict. At the Pentagon, Bush said that increasing the pace of withdrawal could be a setback to progress made since the so-called "surge" — an infusion of 30,000 additional troops last year.

Chinese authorities blame the Dalai Lama for recent protests seeking independence for Tibet. But the Dalai Lama said Monday that he does not seek independence for Tibet — only true autonomy.

The United Nations chief in Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, says that the progress made in Iraq is not enough. Di Mistura told a news conference Saturday that the window of opportunity created by a lull in violence may be closing and that the government had to work harder to resolve issues like the status of 4.4 million refugees.

In the last five years, as thousands of veterans have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating injuries, the Army has actually awarded fewer soldiers full disability retirement benefits than they did before the war started. Private attorneys have stepped in to help disabled soldiers get the benefits they deserve.

The United Nations releases a new report on human rights in Baghdad on Saturday. The report, covering the last six months of 2007, acknowledges a marked decrease in violence, but it cites a need for improvement in other aspects of human rights if those security gains are to be sustained.

Hundreds of people joined a week of street protests against Chinese rule led by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The rare protests started Monday to mark the 49th anniversary of an uprising against the Communist regime.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's decision to attack a rebel FARC encampment in Ecuador was widely seen in Latin America as a territorial violation. NPR's Juan Forero and Cynthia Arnson, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discuss the conflict.