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Libya: Arrests Made in Rape Case

Sky News reports : The son of a high-ranking Libyan police officer is thought to be among five people arrested after a woman claimed she was raped and tortured by men connected to Colonel Gaddafi's regime. In a conversation with Sky News, Libya's deputy foreign minister Khalid Kaim said …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

New Army 'Kill Team' Pics Released

Rolling Stone reports: a review of internal Army records and investigative files obtained by Rolling Stone , including dozens of interviews with members of Bravo Company compiled by military investigators, indicates that the dozen infantrymen being portrayed as members of a secretive "kill …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Obama Campaign Picks Chicago HQ

The New York Times reports : President Obama’s aides have settled on the location of a campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, with his re-election effort poised to open early next month by raising money and building a political organization for the 2012 presidential race. While …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Israel Deploys New Anti-Missile System

Washington Post reports : Israel on Sunday deployed a still experimental anti-missile system to protect residents within striking distance of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, a clear sign that Israeli leaders do not believe that rocket fire from the territory will abate soon. An …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

NYC Contests Census Numbers

CNN reports : City officials will formally challenge the Census Bureau's data for New York City, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg said understated the number of residents in Brooklyn and Queens and overstated the number of vacant housing units in the city. Although New York was named the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

New Spending Bill Deadline Looms

The Wall Street Journal reports : The White House and Democratic lawmakers, with less than two weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, are assembling a proposal for roughly $20 billion in additional spending cuts that could soon be offered to Republicans, according to people close to …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Biden Team Sorry for Sticking Reporter in Closet

ABC News reports : "Scott - You have our sincere apologies for the lack of a better hold room today," wrote Vice President Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander last Wednesday to Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers. "Lack of a better hold room" is an interesting way of putting it. In …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

WH: Qaddafi Allies May Switch Sides

The Los Angeles Times reports : Top Obama administration officials predicted that Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi's regime may crack from within, as allied warplanes, resurgent rebels and the international community put more pressure on Tripoli. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Rebels Reach Qaddafi's Turf

The New York Times reports: TRIPOLI, Libya — American and European bombs battered Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s most important bastion of support in his tribal homeland of Surt on Sunday night, as rebels seeking his ouster capitalized on the damage from the Western airstrikes to erase their …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Radiation Levels Reach New High

The Washington Post reports: TOKYO — As radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant reached a new high Sunday, workers contended with dark, steamy conditions in their efforts to repair the facility’s cooling system and stave off a full-blown nuclear meltdown. Wearing …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Japanese Embrace Era Of Austerity

The New York Times reports: TOKYO — Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behavior has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Global Executions Fell In 2010

BBC News reports: The use of the death penalty globally is continuing to fall, an annual report by Amnesty International has said. Although 23 countries carried out executions in 2010, four more than in 2009, the number of people executed dropped from at least 714 to at least 527, the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

NY Budget Proposed With Heavy Cuts

The New York Times reports: Capping weeks of secretive negotiations and intense political jockeying, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and leaders of the Legislature on Sunday announced a $132.5 billion budget agreement that would cut overall spending, impose no major new taxes and begin a long-term …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

Libyan Rebels Sign Oil Deal With Qatar

BBC News reports: Libyan rebels say they have signed an oil contract with Qatar to export oil from rebel-held territory. "We are producing about 100, 000 to 130, 000 barrels a day, we can easily up that to about 300,000 a day," rebel spokesman Ali Tarhouni told the Associated Press. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

IN Tea Party Targets Lugar

The Wall Street Journal reports: REYNOLDS, Ind.—Two meetings in recent days in this Midwestern state showed the predicament facing Sen. Richard Lugar, a six-term Republican with a centrist profile, as he runs for re-election next year. When Mr. Lugar came to this farming town of 500 people …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 28, 2011

What Libya Reveals About Obama's Views on War

Toby Harnden writes at The Daily Telegraph : America’s intervention in Libya, riding on the coattails of Britain and France, may yet turn out for the best. There are indications that coalition air power has given the rebels the opportunity to stem and perhaps even turn the military …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011

Merkel's Party Loses Important Election

The New York Times reports : BERLIN — In an astonishing shift in German politics, Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s conservative Christian Democrats on Sunday seemed headed for a major defeat in a historic stronghold in southwestern Germany, where the Green party appeared poised to head …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011

Lieberman: Syria Could Be Next

Politico reports : Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) raised the possibility Sunday of U.S. military involvement in Syria if President Bashar Al-Assad massacres his people. “If Assad does what Qadhafi was doing, which is to threaten to go house to house and kill anybody who’s not on his …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011

Palin: Ferraro Was a Pioneer

Politico reports : Sarah Palin took to Twitter and Facebook Saturday to mourn the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a national ticket who "broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more." "My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011

Alleged Libyan Rape Victim Slandered

The New York Times reports: TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan authorities on Sunday attacked the character and credibility of a Libyan woman who burst into a hotel full of foreign journalists to say that she had been abducted and raped by militia members working for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi , …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011