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Washington Times: The end of the longest recession in recent history got pushed further off last month as employers eliminated nearly a half-million more jobs, unemployment rose to its highest level in 26 years and wage growth came to a standstill. Thursday’s news from the Labor Department triggered a dive in the financial markets and [...]

NAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. One Marine was killed and several others injured or [...]

Sky News: Some local British Embassy staff in Tehran will go on trial accused of playing a role in post-election violence, says the head of Iran’s powerful Guardians Council. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the announcement during a prayer sermon. He said the detained embassy staff [...]

The Guardian: The commander of a British regiment has been killed in Afghanistan, the first to have died in active service since the Falklands war 27 years ago. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed on Wednesday by what defence officials described last night as a “huge bomb” that shattered the [...]

Press TV: As a sign of rapprochement, the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has expressed his readiness for holding talks with the US President Barack Obama in Damascus. “We would welcome him in Syria, definitely. I’m very clear about this,” Assad told Sky News in an exclusive interview on Thursday. The Syrian president said he would [...]

ISLAMABAD – U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant hide-out Friday, killing 15 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said. The two attacks by drone aircraft took place in South Waziristan, a Mehsud stronghold close to the Afghan border where Pakistani troops are gearing up [...]

“…a message to (Shiite) Iran and a demonstration of strengthening ties between (Sunni) Egypt and Israel.” Jerusalem Post: After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuvers off the Eilat coast in the [...]

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Times Online: British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday as the carefully constructed European consensus on responding to Iran came under intense strain. Britain, backed by the outgoing Czech presidency of the EU, had pushed for the [...]

Dem Tom Perriello Politico: ALTON, Va. – Rep. Tom Perriello relishes an energy fight with Republicans – even here in the rural southside. The freshman lawmaker understands the potential consequences that he and other vulnerable Democrats face for backing a sweeping climate-change bill, and rather than ducking the issue, he’s embracing what may have been [...]

Washington Times: The wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday that she is willing to forgive her husband for his affair with an Argentine woman, saying it “is essential for us both to move on with our lives.” In an e-mail statement, Jenny Sanford described the governor’s behavior as “inexcusable” but said her [...]

WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group’s papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of racial preferences in hiring. White House Counsel Greg Craig, however, told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in a letter that [...]

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name “La Parkita” — or “Little Death” — and wore a skeleton costume [...]