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Libya c.bank sees 18 pct economic growth in 2013 despite unrest
ReutersTRIPOLI, May 9 (Reuters) - Libya's central bank governor said on Thursday he expects the economy to grow 18 percent this year despite a deepening crisis threatening the government's ability to press ahead with its agenda. Armed groups surrounded...Tags: International Monetary Fund, Government, Beirut (Lebanon), Executive Branch, Weather Reports
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GOP, Democrats continue to dispute regarding Benghazi deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History...
Tags: Bob McDonnell, Washington, DC, Christopher Stevens, Government, White House
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ANALYSIS-Despite Israeli strikes, US still wary of Syria air defenses
ReutersBy Phil Stewart and Peter Apps WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - Israeli missiles breached Syria's vaunted air defense system over the weekend, but that offered little comfort to U.S. military planners weighing the risks of any intervention against President...Tags: Science and Technology, Missile Systems, Washington, DC, Bashar Assad, Afghanistan
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House committee hearing on Benghazi attack opens on partisan note
WASHINGTON -- A hearing on the deadly September 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, began with sharp exchanges Wednesday morning when the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accused the Republican...Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, Darrell E Issa, Michael G. Mullen, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Martin Dempsey
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Partisan politics, little new information at House Benghazi hearing
WASHINGTON — Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses...Tags: Washington, DC, Wars and Interventions, Witnesses, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Libya crisis deepens as rebel groups expand demands
ReutersTRIPOLI, May 8 (Reuters) - Libya's political crisis deepened on Wednesday as armed groups surrounding two ministries in the capital said they had formed an alliance to present an expanded list of six demands that included the resignation of Prime Minister...Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Muammar Gaddafi, National Government, Politics
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Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi
Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...Tags: Steve King, United Nations, Christopher Stevens, Mitt Romney, Religion and Belief
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Obama has leverage to get his way on Guantanamo
President Barack Obama's renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn't viable as a matter of practicality or...Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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U.S. diplomatic security back in focus at Benghazi hearing
ReutersBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - A former U.S. diplomat in Libya who says more could have been done to protect Americans at the U.S. mission in Benghazi when it was attacked last September will be a featured witness on Wednesday...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Christopher Stevens, Republican Party
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Libyan PM convinces defence minister not to quit - spokeswoman
ReutersTRIPOLI, May 7 (Reuters) - Libya's prime minister convinced the defence minister not to resign on Tuesday, hours after Mohammed al-Bargathi said he was quitting in protest against the siege of two government ministries by armed groups, the premier's...Tags: Government, Politics
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Obama's Libya nominee says security is ambassador's job
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice as the next U.S. ambassador to Libya promised on Tuesday to ensure the security of staff in the country, eight months after an attack in Benghazi killed four Americans, including the last...Tags: Elections, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
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Tilting Syria
President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...
Tags: Bashar Assad, The Washington Post, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton
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May 4, 2013
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