The call from the Central Intelligence Agency came on a December afternoon in 2009 while Gary Anderson was skiing with his three children. It’s about your wife, the agency man said. Standing inside Eagle Rock ski lodge in Pennsylvania, Anderson pleaded for details. The CIA official said simply: Where are you? We’ll meet you. Read full article > >

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan’s top military official said Friday that the country’s powerful army was not contemplating a coup, pushing back on a rare and vehement accusation the country’s prime minister made the day before. Army Chief of Staff Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said the country’s armed forces remain committed to the democratic process. Read full article > >

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URBANDALE, Iowa — Rising in polls and receiving greater scrutiny, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich found himself on the defensive Wednesday over huge payments he received over the past decade from the mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Gingrich, who now is near the top in polling on the GOP race, said he didn’t remember exactly how much he was paid, but a former Freddie Mac official said it was at least $1.5 million for consulting contracts stretching from 1999 to 2007. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. Read full article > >

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Gingrich acknowledges benefiting from Freddie Mac fees, defends his work for mortgage giant

JERUSALEM — Israeli Cabinet ministers decided Monday to hold on to about $100  million in taxes owed to the Palestinians, an official said, despite warnings from Israel’s Defense Ministry that the measure could threaten the stability of the Palestinian government in the West Bank. Israel stopped transfer of tax funds as punishment for the Palestinian’s successful bid for admission to UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, which was part of a larger effort to gain admission as a state in the world body. Read full article > >

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Syracuse and Pittsburgh have begun the formal process of leaving the Big East by applying to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, an A.C.C. official said Saturday.

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Initial jobless claims rose again to 428,000 from 417,000 for the week ending Sept. 10, the Labor Department reported Thursday, the highest number the country has seen since June. According to a Reuters report , a Labor Department official said that Hurricane Irene did not appear to affect the number of claims. Read full article > >

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It is “likely” that the SEC got rid of “some documents” from inquiries it decided not to pursue involving Bernard Madoff and such major financial firms as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and SAC Capital , a senior SEC official said Wednesday. But the official, enforcement director Robert Khuzami, said agency officials “do not believe that current or future investigations have been harmed” by the SEC’s long-running practice of purging files of inquiries that were closed without a full-fledged investigation. Read full article > >

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It is “likely” that the SEC got rid of “some documents” from inquiries it decided not to pursue involving Bernard Madoff and such major financial firms as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and SAC Capital , a senior SEC official said Wednesday. But the official, enforcement director Robert Khuzami, said agency officials “do not believe that current or future investigations have been harmed” by the SEC’s long-running practice of purging files of inquiries that were closed without a full-fledged investigation. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Two fighter jets escorted a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers locked themselves in a bathroom Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said. A law enforcement official said it wasn’t thought to be terrorism, and American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said, “In our eyes, it’s a big nothing.” Read full article > >

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Pakistan’s intelligence agency arrested “a few” informants who gave information to the CIA before the raid that left Osama bin Laden dead, a Pakistani intelligence official said Wednesday.

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A Libyan woman who claims she was raped by Moammar Gadhafi’s troops has arrived at a U.N. refugee center in Romania, an official said Tuesday.

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The apartment rented by the wife of the former I.M.F. chief will not accept him when he leaves jail, an official said on Friday.

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Luxury Building Blocks Strauss-Kahn for House Arrest

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has put off final approval of 2,500 new apartments in contested east Jerusalem at the prime minister’s request, an official said Monday.

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Japan’s effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that a reactor vessel may have been damaged.

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Infants in and around Tokyo should not drink tap water, a Tokyo official said Wednesday, after radioactive iodine was detected in the capital’s water supply.

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