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...simply been a dispute about Middle East policy, he would have survived.' Representative MARK KIRK (R., Ill.), saying Freeman's job as head of the Saudi-funded Middle East Policy Council tarnished his objectivity...
...next day, my husband and I decided to find our own adventure. We rented a motorbike for $4 and borrowed a couple of sturdy helmets from Bob, the Australian restaurateur who runs Bob's, in town. Then we headed east about 12 miles out of town to check out the Tatai waterfall with two friends we had met on the boat the day before - a 20-something German woman who was traveling solo in Asia for six months and a dreadlocked guy we resorted to calling the Wanderer because when asked where he was from, he said, "My last address...
...toured the historic Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia (a church converted into a mosque and now a museum), met with religious leaders of all faiths and held a town-hall meeting with 100 university students. He also reiterated his commitment to a two-state solution in the Middle East, despite the potential roadblocks posed by the new Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu. "Peace in the Middle East is possible," he told students, adding that both sides would need to make compromises...
...That's a win for Kim, and it leaves the Obama Administration forced to cajole its East Asian allies to set aside their anger and get back on the diplomatic track with Pyongyang. Bosworth, upon his appointment to the special-envoy job earlier this year, said he was under "no illusions" as to how difficult the task would be. After yesterday, it's fair to conclude that he didn't know the half...
...Dozens of residents in the province of L'Aquila, some 80 miles (130 km) east of Rome, were crushed in their beds when the earthquake struck at 3:32 a.m. Aftershocks could be felt throughout the early-morning hours, with efforts to find survivors intensifying into dusk. The original quake, which measured 6.3 on the Richter scale, shook awake most residents in the Italian capital, and the effects could be felt as far away as Naples. It was the deadliest earthquake in Italy since the one that killed more than 2,500 people in the southern town of Irpinia...