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  • RPT-ANALYSIS-Politics, diplomacy behind Obama's Gaza silence (yea, whatever!)

    01/05/2009 6:04:52 AM PST · by tobyhill · 14 replies · 607+ views
    Reuters ^ | 1/5/2009 | Deborah Charles
    Even as Israelis and Palestinians plunged deeper into conflict, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama remained silent, refusing to budge from his one-president-at-a-time mantra. Obama takes office on Jan. 20 but has not commented on the Middle East crisis since Israel launched attacks on Gaza nine days ago. His advisers insist that only President George W. Bush can speak for America until then. The Palestinian death toll in nine days of Israeli attacks has risen to more than 500. Hamas, which ended a six-month ceasefire, has fired rockets deeper into Israel than ever before, hitting major cities and killing four Israelis. While...
  • North Korea presents more "evidence" of recovered Kim

    12/18/2008 8:07:38 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 32 replies · 808+ views
    Reuters ^ | 12/16/08
    North Korea presents more "evidence" of recovered Kim Tue Dec 16, 9:37 pm ET SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea stepped up its campaign to prove leader Kim Jong-il is well and in control by showing him looking at an electronic copy of a newspaper dated Tuesday in a series of photos released through its official media. U.S. and South Korean officials have said Kim, 66, suffered a stroke in August, raising questions about leadership in Asia's only communist dynasty and who was making decisions about the North's nuclear program. Despite re-emerging in early October in official media reports about making...