CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers appointed a new prime minister Friday as protesters staged massive demonstrations for a seventh day to demand the immediate transfer of power to civilian rule. Kamal el-Ganzouri, 78, a former prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was asked to form a new cabinet to replace the caretaker government that resigned this week to protest violence by Egyptian security forces to suppress the growing demonstrations. The former government, headed by Essam Sharaf as prime minister, also had been formed under the auspices of the military rulers. Read full article > >

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Suicide bombers target the headquarters of the military and secret service in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, army officials say.

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said. The military said no one was hurt. Troops boarded the boats without incident after repeated calls for them to turn around were ignored, the military said. Read full article > >

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Israeli navy boards 2 protest boats approaching blockaded Gaza, tows them to Israeli port

Haqqani militants move about freely in Pakistan, indicating a degree of protection from the military and intelligence service that makes it unlikely American concerns will be addressed.

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Of all the senior foreign-policy officials during the tumultuous George W. Bush presidency, Condoleezza Rice was the least complicated. The others — Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld — had at one time or another imagined themselves as a potential president, been captains of industry or the military and were experienced in the dark arts of bureaucratic Washington. Read full article > >

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‘No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington’ by Condoleezza Rice

BRUSSELS — Pleased by the outcome of the war in Libya, the Obama administration is suddenly all smiles among its NATO allies. Four months after then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates delivered a blistering speech accusing NATO of abdicating its defense responsibilities to the United States, his successor, Leon E. Panetta, was conciliatory Wednesday in a visit to the military alliance’s headquarters in Belgium. Read full article > >

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Tania Dunbar celebrated a first in her 13-year Army career Sunday: She donned her uniform and proudly introduced Deborah Graham as her wife, not the “cousin” who had previously joined her around Fort Stewart in Georgia. The formal end Tuesday of the military’s 18-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on service members revealing their homosexuality has allowed the couple to share the news that they married in the District in May. Read full article > >

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He’s Toby Keith, and he’s reporting for duty. Appearing at Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday night, the onetime controversy-stoking country star marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with a confident shrug. “We always gotta be vigilant,” Keith said. But come what may, “the military is always gonna take care of us.” Read full article > >

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At Jiffy Lube Live show, Toby Keith sticks with his boot-kicking brand of patriotism

Illegal immigrants who came to the United States as young children and graduated from high school or served in the military will not face expulsion.

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The reduction will make it harder for commanders to carry out one of the military’s major goals for next year.

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Russia’s envoy to Africa visited the country’s battered capital Thursday in a last-ditch effort to broker a negotiated settlement to a war that is increasingly weighing on the NATO governments seeking to bring down Moammar Gaddafi’s regime. As alliance aircraft continued to bomb Tripoli, Libyan officials showed few signs of budging and suggested they are enjoying the domestic heat the Obama administration is taking over the military intervention. “We are still strong,” Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi told Western journalists at a news conference Thursday afternoon. “We are still able to resist and stand firm. All of us are with brother Moammar Gaddafi.” Read full article > >

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BERLIN — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates rebuked some of America’s staunchest allies Friday, saying the United States has a “dwindling appetite” to serve as the heavyweight partner in the military order that has underpinned the U.S. relationship with Europe since the end of World War II. In an unusually stinging speech , made on his valedictory visit to Europe before he retires at the end of the month, Gates condemned European defense cuts and said the United States is tired of engaging in combat missions for those who “don’t want to share the risks and the costs.” Read full article > >

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President Obama attends a ceremony at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, as America honours its war dead on Memorial Day.

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Thousands greet Manuel Zelaya, the ex-president of Honduras ousted by the military in 2009, as he returns in a deal to end the country’s political crisis.

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Since 1997, the military has spent more than $32 billion in vain on U.S. army weaponry that was never built, according to a new study. Though the study has not yet been published, it calls the Army Weapons Programs’ fruitless efforts “unacceptable.”…

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