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DEVELOPING: The Justice Department says two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle with machine guns and grenades. Seattle resident Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue Jr. of Los Angeles were arrested Wednesday night. They were scheduled to make initial court appearances Thursday on terrorism and firearms charges.

TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the world is “rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised” and global leaders have started following in his footsteps, press reports said yesterday. “I have travelled to all the continents except for one and I know what is going on out there. Everybody is eager to hear the Iranian people’s message,” the reformist Aftab-Yazd newspaper quoted the president as saying. “The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised.” The austere hardliner said that Iran’s “two big missions are constructing the country and introducing a model for humanity.” World leaders, he added, had started copying his provincial trips, during...

It is a complex topic, what can you say? What can offend someone is not always understandable, and in that sense if someone really wants to be offended, he will find a reason. Recently I was in the Moscow Metro and in a big hurry. In my haste, I accidentally bumped into a man. I immediately apologized, but at the same time I was excusing myself there followed a blow to my back. "What's that for?" I asked, dumbfounded. "Why did you push me?" he replied. "But I apologized." "And why should I care that you apologized?" "But I didn't...