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Egypt on threshold of history
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsThere are some days when my commentary beat -- local/regional/Florida news -- simply gets swallowed up by larger events. This is one of those days. In this age of instant information, it's impossible to be human and not get engrossed......Tags: Television, Cairo (Egypt), Hosni Mubarak, Elections, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)
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U.S. world-view rising: Obama credited
The Swampby Mark Silva The image of the United States has "improved markedly'' in much of the world, according to the findings of a new global survey that shows Western Europeans in particular taking a positive new look at the U.S.......Tags: Lebanon, Heads of State, National Government, Osama bin Laden, United States
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Top Al Qaeda leader killed, U.S. says
The Swampby David S. Cloud Al Qaeda's third-ranking leader -- a close associate and relative by marriage to Osama bin Laden -- is believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, U.S. officials said. The......Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Guerrilla Activity, Afghanistan, Defense, Death
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In Muslim nations, Obama approval slips
The Swampby Paul Richter Confidence in President Obama among the world's Muslims is slipping, according to a poll of global attitudes that also found widespread concern that the United States remained a go-it-alone nation even under the new administration. The...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arizona, Heads of State, George W. Bush, White House
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State of the Union, not of the Middle East
The Swampby Mark Silva In one hour and nine minutes of a State of the Union address focused largely on the domestic challenges facing the United States - employment and economic revival, largely - President Barack Obama made no mention of......Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Civil Rights, Diplomacy, Human Rights, Politics
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Of Athens and Jerusalem
Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Passover Seder, Slavery, Judaism, Migration
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Israel Has Opportunity Amid Region's Termoil
The Hartford CourantIt's a measure of the relatively quiet time for Israel these days that the sharpest argument at a big national security conference here was between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who wanted "autonomy" for his fellow believers and secular Israelis in the audience...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, West Bank, George Clooney
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Reality check in Mideast shows no real solution
After President Obama's visit to Israel and Jordan, it's time for our reality check No. 99. For perspective, let's backtrack to Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo. Reasonably, the President asserted, all sides were educated, smart and patriotic. If...Tags: Kim Jong Un, Cairo (Egypt), Abdullah II of Jordan, Israel, George W. Bush
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Hagel suggests thinning the top ranks
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel was taking questions at Fort McNair on Wednesday after his first major speech as defense secretary when a man rose to ask about his recent comments on North Korea. "I was misquoted again," Hagel blurted out, without saying what...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, North Korea, Barack Obama, Iran's Nuclear Program, U.S. Army
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A whole lot of living left to do
The Bible tells the story of the burning bush and God’s call of Moses. At the age where Moses should be enjoying the benefits of AARP, when he should be bouncing great-grandchildren on his knee as his main exercise, it is then God speaks to Moses.... -
Abdullah to Obama: Watch out for Brother Mursi
King Abdullah II of Jordan, a member of the dwindling band of Arab leaders who have somehow stayed in power despite the rise of what he calls a "Muslim Brotherhood crescent" across the Middle East, made an acute observation to me recently about the...Tags: Civil Rights, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdullah II of Jordan, United Nations, Human Rights
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Why we give foreign aid
WASHINGTON -- Sequestration is not the best time to be doling out foreign aid, surely the most unpopular item in the federal budget. Especially when the recipient is President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt. Morsi is intent on getting the release of Omar Abdel-...
Tags: Foreign Aid, Cairo (Egypt), Religion and Belief, John Kerry, Freedom of the Press
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