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Arab League Protests Bombing

The Washington Post reports: CAIRO — The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the U.S.-European bombing campaign in Libya and said Sunday that he would call a league meeting to reconsider Arab approval of the Western military intervention. Moussa said …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

Google To China: Don't Block Gmail

The New York Times reports: SHANGHAI — Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company’s popular e-mail service. Google said that it was not having any technical …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

Qaddafi Force In Tatters After Airstrike

The Washington Post reports: TIKAH, Libya — Twenty miles outside Benghazi, the wreckage of Moammar Gaddafi’s army dots the land. There are crushed tanks, their turrets pulled apart. A few feet away, amid the smoldering debris of war, nine bodies lay on a field of flowers, the faces …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

Bahrain and Iran Expel Diplomats

BBC News reports: Iran has expelled a Bahraini diplomat in a retaliatory move, amid an ongoing dispute linked to anti-government protests in Bahrain. Earlier, Bahrain had expelled the Iranian charge d'affaires. Tehran has criticised Bahrain's Sunni rulers for using troops from other Gulf …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

Oil Price Jumps On Libya Bombing

The New York Times reports: HONG KONG — Oil prices jumped more than $2 a barrel on Monday as the Western military action in Libya and continuing unrest in a host of other countries in the oil-rich Middle East region raised fears of possible disruptions to crude supplies. The price for …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

AT&T To Buy T-Mobile

The New York Times reports: AT&T announced on Sunday that it had agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, in a deal that would create the largest carrier in the nation and promised to reshape the industry. The transaction — one of the largest since the onset …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday March 21, 2011

Rubin: Obama Can't Make Friends with Islamists

Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, writes: When Muhamad ElBaradei tried to vote March 19 in the referendum on Egypt's constitutional changes, he was attacked by hundreds of Islamists with stones, at least one of which hit him, and shoes. "W…

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

McCain: No Fly Zone is Not Enough

Politico reports : President Barack Obama should have moved sooner against Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday. Earlier action, the senator said on CNN's "State of the Union," would have been more effective in weakening the grip of the controversial …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Brits in Japan Get Iodine Pills

Brits in Japan Get Iodine Pills BBC reports: Britons in parts of Japan are being given iodine tablets as "a precaution" in case radiation levels increase from a quake-damaged nuclear power plant. The Foreign Office said it was a "contingency measure" and people should only take …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Qaddafi Backers Form Human Shield

The New York Times reports: Even as the allied intervention began, a group of foreign journalists were bused on a rare visit inside Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s compound — a labyrinth of concrete barracks, fortified walls and barbed wire designed to deter potential military coups. There, …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Will Crisis Jump-Start Japan?

Will Crisis Jump-Start Japan? Marcus Noland writes in the Washington Post : On Sept. 1, 1923, a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck Tokyo. More than 100,000 people lost their lives and more than 3 million were left homeless in the Great Kanto Earthquake. Fueled by rumors that ethnic …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Bombers Destroy Libyan Airfield

American Bombers Destroy Airfield The New York Times reports : A day after American and European forces began a broad campaign of strikes against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi , the Libyan leader delivered a fresh and defiant tirade on Sunday, pledging retaliatio…

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

First Free Egyptian Election In Decades

First Free Egyptian Election In Four Decades The New York Times reports : MANSOURA, Egypt — Elated that for the first time in their lives every ballot mattered, Egyptians flocked to the polls in record numbers on Saturday to vote in a referendum on a package of constitutional …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Israel

Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Israel BBC reports : Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of missiles into southern Israel in what appears to be their heaviest such barrage in two years. About 50 mortars were fired - two Israelis were hurt, Israel says. Israeli tanks later …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Reactor Pressure Under Control

Pressure At Reactor Under Control The New York Times reports : TOKYO — As Japan struggled to contain the damage at its crippled nuclear complex on Sunday, two people were reported to have been found alive, nine days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. An …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Ambassador To Mexico Resigns Over Wikileaks

Ambassador To Mexico Resigns Over Wikileaks The Washington Post reports : The U.S. ambassador to Mexico has resigned after the publication of U.S. diplomatic cables that criticized that government’s anti-drug fight, infuriating the Mexican president. Carlos Pascual appears …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 20, 2011

Missiles Launched Against Libya

Cruise Missiles Launched Against Libyan Air Defense The Daily Mail reports : The Pentagon has confirmed that that U.S. has launched missile strikes against Libya's air defence network as a coalition of forces begin a no-fly zone over the north African nation. The missiles attack …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 19, 2011

Lehrer: Pensions Aren't the Problem

Lehrer: Pensions Aren't the Problem Eli Lehrer writes at The Weekly Standard : In March 2010, the notoriously divided Illinois legislature passed a major reform in the state’s pension plan that created a two-tier system offering decidedly less generous benefits to new hires. In …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 19, 2011

French Jets Over Libya

French Fighter Jets Enforce No Fly Zone Over Libya Forbes reports : BENGHAZI, Libya -- Jets from an international force launched missions over Libya on Saturday, hours after Moammar Gadhafi dispatched troops, tanks and warplanes to the heart of the 5-week-old uprising against his rule …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 19, 2011

Quayle Defends Obama's Golfing

Quayle Defends Obama's Golfing CNN reports: When President Obama headed to the golf course last weekend – the 61st time he has done so since becoming president - critics pounced, saying it was inappropriate for the commander-in-chief to indulge himself when several crises abroad …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday March 19, 2011