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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: Hosni Mubarak, Entertainment, Fox News Channel (tv network), Cairo (Egypt), Elections
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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: Osama bin Laden, Europe, George W. Bush, Heads of State, 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: Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security
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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: George W. Bush, Heads of State, Gaza Strip, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Diplomacy, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Civil 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: Immigration, Passover, Judaism, Politics, Slavery
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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: Judaism, George Clooney, Weaponry, Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present )
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Joel Brinkley: Leadership, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague
American VoicesA plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every now...Tags: Entertainment, Hosni Mubarak, Moody's Corporation, The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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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: Abdullah II of Jordan, Judaism, George W. Bush, Cairo (Egypt), Benjamin Netanyahu
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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: Chuck Hagel, U.S. Department of Defense, Hamid Karzai, Military Equipment, U.S. Army
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We leave Egypt tonight
Paul GreenbergPsst, pass it on. Tell the other slaves: We leave Egypt tonight. Walker Percy called it the search. Or at least his alter ego in "The Moviegoer" did. Outwardly, John Bickerson Bolling, or Binx to his friends, was just another stockbroker. Inwardly, he...Tags: Passover, Judaism, Slavery, Juneteenth, Religion and Belief
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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: Abdullah II of Jordan, Government, Civil Rights, Mohamed Morsi, Politics
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