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US 'dismay' at Israel over Gilo plan

Barack Obama, centre, with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas. Robert Gibbs expressed concern the Gilo development will undermine Middle East peace negotiations. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images The White House yesterday expressed exasperation ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Robert Gibbs,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Jim Watson (politician)

Iran could have more secret nuclear sites, warns UN nuclear watchdog

Satellite view of what is believed to be a uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, Iran. Photograph: DigitalGlobe/Reuters The United Nations nuclear watchdog has expressed fears that Iran may have other secret nuclear sites following the discovery of the ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: International Atomic Energy Agency,  United Nations,  Barack Obama,  Mohamed ElBaradei,  New York Times Company

UN orders Iran to disclose nuclear details

The United Nation's nuclear watchdog today ordered Iran to provide more details about its secret nuclear facility hidden in a mountain near the holy city of Qom. The watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, in a report published today, ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: International Atomic Energy Agency,  Mohamed ElBaradei,  Barack Obama,  New York Times Company,  Gordon Brown

Sarah Palin gears up for book tour with Oprah slot

Pundits quickly pionted out that Sarah Palin's itinery for promoting her new book Going Rogue: An American Life includes an awful lot of swing states. Photograph: AP/Harper Sarah Palin will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show in an interview which will ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  White House,  Newsweek

9/11 accused to be tried in New York

The US attorney general, Eric Holder, told a press conference in Washington he would be seeking the death penalty. The decision immediately raised fears among some that the trial, to be held about 10 blocks from the site of the Twin Towers, could make ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Eric Holder,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate

9/11 trial prompts security fears

The rubble of the World Trade Center smoulders after the 9/11 terrorist attack. Photograph: Alex Fuchs/AFP It will be one of the trials of the century, the suspected plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a civilian court only half a mile from the scene of ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, The Observer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  White House

US mosques and New York skyscraper seized over Iran links

Federal investigators moved to seize four mosques in the US and a skyscraper in Manhattan yesterday over their alleged financial aid to Iran, in an extraordinary step likely to worsen relations between Washington and Tehran. Prosecutors in Manhattan ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alavi Foundation,  Barack Obama,  Preet Bharara,  United Nations

Pressure grows on Barack Obama as memos expose rifts over Afghan policy

US troops set out on a patrol in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Photograph: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo today at the start of a nine-day trip that will take in South Korea and China, but the issue that will ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  White House

Barack Obama 'risks Suez-like disaster' in Afghanistan, says key military adviser

US troops set out on a patrol in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Photograph: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images A key adviser to Nato forces warned today that Barack Obama risks a Suez-style debacle in Afghanistan if he fails to deploy enough extra troops and ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Hamid Karzai,  David Petraeus

Heroine officer tells of Fort Hood shooting

Kimberley Munley - the police officer who shot Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood - gave her first interview since the incident on the Oprah Winfrey show. Sergeant Kimberly Munley recalled today how she had been engaged in the mundane task of washing ...

From EWEN MACASKILL, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Robert Gates,  Virginia Tech,  Mark Todd

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