Sudan’s military bombs a village in the oil-rich southern Unity State, southern officials say, as tensions rise ahead of the south’s independence.

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There’s a crisis in U.S. policy in the Middle East — and it’s not about Libya. For weeks the Obama administration has been preoccupied with averting a humanitarian catastrophe in North Africa. But on the other side of the region, in the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula, a matter of vital, strategic importance awaits the urgent attention of policymakers.

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Amid the Arab Spring, Obama’s dilemma over Saudi Arabia

There’s a crisis in U.S. policy in the Middle East — and it’s not about Libya. For weeks the Obama administration has been preoccupied with averting a humanitarian catastrophe in North Africa. But on the other side of the region, in the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula, a matter of vital, strategic importance awaits the urgent attention of policymakers.

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Amid the Arab Spring, Obama’s dilemma over Saudi Arabia

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Nigeria’s army says it has arrested a suspected militant leader and more than 50 of his members over recent kidnappings in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

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Nigeria’s ‘kidnap’ gang arrested