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TEL AVIV—Israeli leaders are struggling to navigate a Middle East in which its strategic pillar of the last few decades—a three-way axis with U.S.-allied Muslim powers—has crumbled, a day after rescuing its embassy staff from a mob in Cairo.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to reopen its Egyptian embassy after the staff retreated [...]
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Israel Reels Over Rifts With Allies
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2011
77 U.S. troops injured in Taliban truck bombing
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2011
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—
The massive Taliban truck bomb that exploded outside an American military base in a restive eastern district injured nearly 80 U.S. troops and killed five Afghans, Western and Afghan officials said Sunday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Saturday evening in the Sayedabad district of Wardak province. That is [...]
Palestinian Leader Says U.S. Is ‘Too Late’ on U.N. Bid
Posted by admin on September 9th, 2011
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said Thursday that last-ditch American and international efforts to prevent the Palestinians from applying for membership in the United Nations this month were “too late.”
He said the Palestinians still intended to submit an application for recognition of Palestinian statehood to the Security Council as a first [...]
Obama Proposes $447 Billion Jobs Stimulus Plan
Posted by admin on September 9th, 2011
President Barack Obama channeled the national frustration with the economy that threatens his political standing and challenged the U.S. Congress to pass a $447 billion jobs plan tilted heavily toward the Republican prescription of tax cuts.
The president, speaking before a joint session of Congress, demanded six times that lawmakers act “right away” on a plan [...]
In a New Libya, Ex-Loyalists Race to Shed Ties to Qaddafi
Posted by admin on September 8th, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya — Khalid Saad worked for years as a loyal cog in Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s propaganda machine, arranging transportation to ferry foreign journalists to staged rallies, ensuring that they never left their hotels without official escorts and raising his own voice to cheer the Libyan leader.
The day that rebels took Tripoli, Mr. Saad immediately [...]
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Tags: Abu Salim, Khalid Saad, Muammar el-Qaddafi, provisional government 
No Comments »21 killed in twin blasts, west Pakistan
Posted by admin on September 8th, 2011
BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhuanet) — At least 21 people have been killed by two bomb blasts near government offices in Quetta, the capital city of the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
One of the blasts was carried out by a suicide bomber, who blew himself up in a vehicle packed with explosives near the car of [...]
Gaza: Israelis Kill Militant
Posted by admin on September 7th, 2011
A Palestinian militant in Gaza was killed Tuesday by an attack helicopter after Israeli forces carried out an incursion into Gaza near the southern city of Khan Yunis and clashed with members of a small militant group, shooting at them and receiving mortar fire back, according to the Israeli military and officials of the group, [...]
In new Egypt, foreign policy not just for diplomats
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2011
(Reuters) – Ahmed al-Shahat clambered up the faade of Israel’s high-rise Cairo embassy, scaling over 21 floors, to pull down the flag of the Jewish state and replace it with Egypt’s national colors.
“Raise your head high — you are Egyptians,” thousands cried as Shahat, now known as “Flagman,” tore down the white and blue Israeli [...]
Posted in World Tags: Arab spring, Egypt unrest, Hosni Mubarak Trial, Middle East unrest No Comments »In Somalia, famine killing hundreds daily, says UN
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2011
NAIROBI: Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief, the United Nations said.
“The entire Bay region has now been declared a famine area,” said Mark Bowden, the United Nations’ Humanitarian [...]
Posted in World Tags: Humanitarian Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, nairobi No Comments »Typhoon Talas: Japan searches for missing dozens
Posted by admin on September 5th, 2011
The BBC’s Roland Buerk in Toyko says villages have been cut off and the bad weather in the mountains has made reaching them by helicopter impossible.
Evacuation orders and advisories were issued to 460,000 people as the typhoon swept through the region, dumping heavy rain and bringing winds of up to 108km/h (68mph) on Sunday.
Entire villages [...]
