Thursday, September 24, 2009

World News Briefs -- September 24, 2009

President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama's Peace Moves Risk Stoking Mideast Strife -- Yahoo News/AP

JERUSALEM – Rather than getting Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations, President Barack Obama's high-stakes attempt to relaunch Mideast peace talks runs the risk of cementing Israeli intransigence and exacerbating Palestinian weakness.

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MIDDLE EAST

Russia links Iran sanctions to US missile change. Russia 'rethinks' Iran sanctions. China unmoved on Iran sanctions.

Al-Qaida-linked inmates break out of Iraq prison.

Is Obama's ME plan going the way of the Saudi peace plan?

Madoff-like scandal soils Hezbollah's clean image.

ASIA

Dust storm in Australia turns Sydney into Mars. Huge clean-up after Sydney storm.

US to talk to Burmese military.

Tribal elders gunned down by Taliban in Pakistan.

India nuke tests 'completely successful': scientist.

AFRICA

Morocco arrests 24 in 'terrorist network' crackdown.

Al-Qaeda threat closed US embassy in S.Africa.

African leaders ally to eradicate deadly malaria.

Big jump in S Africa sex offences.

EUROPE

UK's Brown signals nuclear subs reduction.

German troops get the Afghan blues.

EU unveils new 'super-regulators'.

Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found.

AMERICAS

Curfew-trapped Hondurans seek food amid crisis. Curfew 'to be lifted' in Honduras.

Dalai Lama prays at site of Martin Luther King's death.

Survey: 75 pct of Mexicans unhappy with country.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

US warns on travel to Germany after Al-Qaeda threat. Honduras’s two Presidents keep their distance.

Guantanamo prisoner says he's lost hope in Obama.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Sarkozy: Restructure world's financial flows.

Card defaults surge in August to 11.49%, Moody’s says.

U.S. issues $7 trillion debt.

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