On Thursday President Obama attempted another “new beginning” with the peoples of the Middle East in his address on the “Arab Spring.” He aimed to overcome the skepticism that now hangs over his administration’s policies in the region and the growing sentiment that with the recent changes in the region, U.S. influence was, in any case, fast fading.
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Opinion: Obama mixes clarity, evasion
The ruling family believes it must survive at all costs or the region would be thrown into chaos, Syria’s most powerful businessman suggested in an interview.
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Ally of Assad Says Syria Will Fight Protests Till ‘the End’
The question now is whether the killing spurs a movement to promote democracy in the region or fuels the Islamist forces now trying to fill the new power vacuum in the Arab world.
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News Analysis: In Bin Laden’s Death, a Critical Moment for the Arab World
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s coast prompts a brief tsunami warning for the region devastated by the huge earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.
The tower did not respond to pilot requests for landing assistance or to phone calls from controllers elsewhere in the region, who also used a “shout line” which pipes into a loudspeaker in the tower, internal records show. Two airliners carrying a total of 165 passengers and crew were forced to land on their own.
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Tsunamis on the scale that hit north-east Japan last week may strike the region about once every 1,000 years, a leading seismologist has said.
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Tsunami could be 1,000-year event
Utility companies will return Sunday to restore power in parts of Rayne, Louisiana, after a tornado pummelled the region, killing at least one person.
The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and the Middle East, acknowledging that the popular revolutions there will bring a more religious cast to the region’s politics.
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Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes
The Obama administration has come to a stark recognition: the region’s monarchs are likely to survive; its presidents are more likely to fall.
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Diplomatic Memo: U.S. Trying to Pick the Winners in a New Mideast
SANAA, YEMEN – As fresh protests erupted across the Middle East and North Africa on Sunday, embattled leaders in the region struggled to contain their discontented masses, deploying a wide variety of tactics – from offers of dialogue to brutal crackdowns – to suppress the pro-democracy forces un…
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Arab leaders use varying tactics to try to calm anger in the streets
As people of all generations and backgrounds celebrate across Egypt this weekend, we are seeing history unfold. “Umm al-Duniya,” the “mother of the world,” has reawakened. So will the rest of its children around the region. Egyptians have changed the face of the region forever.
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Opinion: Military must deliver
The scale of the 2010 drought in the Amazon raises new fears among scientists about the region’s capacity to continue absorbing CO2 emissions.
South east Wales needs a “metro” rail network to promote economic growth in the region and beyond, a report says.
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Region ‘needs’ £2.5bn metro link
Is it D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s turn in Michael Bloomberg’s hotseat? Officials are calling the snowstorm Thursday the region’s worst traffic fiasco since Sept. 11, 2001, as untreated roads, fallen trees, abandoned cars, stalled busses, and inaccurate…
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D.C. Residents Furious About Snow Cleanup
Scientists and explorers aim to discover how Arctic sea ice melts, in a bid to build better forecasts of the region’s future.
News Analysis: In Bin Laden’s Death, a Critical Moment for the Arab World
Monday, May 2nd, 2011Tower at Reagan National goes silent as planes attempt to land
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes
Friday, March 4th, 2011Diplomatic Memo: U.S. Trying to Pick the Winners in a New Mideast
Friday, February 25th, 2011Arab leaders use varying tactics to try to calm anger in the streets
Monday, February 21st, 2011
