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Mr. Netanyahu is dealing with the criticisms at the same time as he faces, for domestic political reasons, the prospect of an election this year, rather than next.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:15 AM | Add Comment

Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, warned: “We all need investment, and nobody in their right mind invests in a country that expropriates investments."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Tough new European Union sanctions aimed at stopping Iran's oil exports to Europe also ban EU insurers and reinsurers from covering tankers carrying Iranian crude anywhere in the world.

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm said the protests that prompted Saudi Arabia to temporarily close its Cairo embassy and consulates reflected Egyptians standing up for their rights.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2012 4:31 PM | Add Comment

“It’s hard to call this a victory if everyone involved in his escape ends up detained, arrested and imprisoned,” he said.

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"We take very seriously our commitment to Taiwan's defense," he said, but added, "We remain committed to our one China policy."

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“Because of Chen’s wide popularity, the Obama administration must stand firmly with him or risk losing credibility as a defender of freedom and the rule of law.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2012 5:30 AM | Add Comment

An inquest held just across the Thames from MI6’s headquarters here has brought forth details of the bizarre and lonely death in August 2010 of Gareth Williams, a 31-year-old rising star in supersecret counterterrorism work.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

United States officials have said that if Pakistan would not or could not strike insurgents in places like Miram Shah, the capital of North Waziristan, then the drone attacks would have to continue.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE PROUD, AS COMMANDER AND CHIEF, FOR TAKING OUT OBL...! JMH

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“World leaders and the media talked obsessively about Kim Jong-il and his nuclear weapons and missiles,” Pomnyun said. “But what about the North Korean people?”

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He knew that “by committing to this campaign I would face verbal violence,” he told the magazine Les Inrockuptibles.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Reagan: "If necessary, we shall do it again. It gives me no pleasure to say that, and I wish it were otherwise."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 7:15 AM | Add Comment

An official in the Chinese Ministry of State Security on Friday said that Mr. Chen had reached the American Embassy, but American officials would not confirm reports that Mr. Chen had found shelter there.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

“It is therefore clear that the presented missiles are only mock-ups of low quality,” they wrote in a post on the Web site, armscontrolwonk.com.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

“This is one of those subjects where every word and nuance is sometimes interpreted to mean a lot more than it does,” said Mr. Gold

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Spanish Unemployment Rise

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After 13 months of deliberation, a panel of three judges from Ireland, Samoa and Uganda found Mr. Taylor guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

Obama is expected to acknowledge the May 1 anniversary of the daring Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's Pakistan compound.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 5:29 PM | Add Comment

The parliamentary elections in February had problems but were still good enough that the Egyptians see the new legislature as legitimate. The standard should be higher for the presidential election.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Political pressure, a high-stakes bargaining strategy and technical challenges may push North Korea’s new leader to order the country’s third nuclear test any time now.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 3:31 PM | Add Comment

The impact point of the missile was said to be in the Indian Ocean.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

“This society has bred mistrust and violence,” said Roderick MacFarquhar, a historian of Communist China’s elite-level machinations over the past half century.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Pierre Mouton, a fund manager at Notz Stucki & Cie. in Geneva, looks at the rise of anti- European, anti-austerity parties across the border in France with concern. It may keep him out of the country’s stock market.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Panetta’s appeal was unusually direct and reflected the Pentagon’s new attention to Brazil after the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, met this month with President Obama at the White House.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

The U.S. drone program is controversial in Yemen, where many opposition leaders and intelligence officials believe the strikes have given al Qaeda and its allies a powerful recruiting tool.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Fresh Blood for a Failed Nation Building Excercise: The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

As intolerable as it is to absorb North Korea’s assassination attempts and other provocations, it is also hard to imagine what could possibly prompt Seoul and Washington to gamble on regime change...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

For months, House Republicans have been trying to wriggle out of the agreement they made in August that will force deep cuts in military spending.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

His élite peers came to despise him for his Western-style grandstanding, his family’s indiscretion, and his homage to the Cultural Revolution.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

The paper said the order noted that while social media and cell phones had helped democracy advocates organize in the Middle East, they had also enabled security services of autocratic nations such as Syria and Iran

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Since 2002, China has gone from America's 45th-largest recipient of bovine semen to the 9th-largest, accepting 366,000 doses last year, around $10 to $30 a slug.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Washington's miscalculation is not just a product of the difficulties of seeing inside the Hermit Kingdom. It is also a result of the broader tendency to overestimate the pace of global proliferation.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

“The danger for them, the Chinese, is that the whole of the Politburo and their Central Committee colleagues will be exposed as a new property-owning class,” said Roderick MacFarquhar, a Harvard University professor

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

But there is another factor that might be playing a role in the increasing rates of the disorder, one that has escaped attention: the military’s use of stimulant medications, like Ritalin and Adderall, in our troops.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after the withdrawal of combat troops at the end of 2014.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Hollande would beat Sarkozy by 56 percent to 44 percent in the final round, said the CSA polling company

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

One is that legalization would save the law-enforcement and social costs of arresting hundreds of thousands of adults each year. (Most proposals would keep marijuana illegal for those under 21.)

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 10:30 AM | Add Comment

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that China has provided some assistance to North Korea's missile program, but he said he did not know the "exact extent of that."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Pyongyang’s threats and bluster are a cry for attention. Don’t give it to them.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2012 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Assad’s cruelty and blindness were predictable. What is unfathomable is why Russia and China continue to protect him.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2012 7:31 PM | Add Comment

She said Turkey had discussed such an option at a NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels this week. Under an article in the NATO treaty, an attack on one member can be construed to be an attack on all.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Both Sarkozy and Hollande have vowed to tackle France's industrial decline due to a lack of competitiveness against low-cost foreign manufacturers, but they have shied away from promising deep structural reforms.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

“This is not who we are, and it’s certainly not what we represent when it comes to the great majority of men and women in uniform,” Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta s

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Clinton: Syria at "turning point"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 1:15 PM | Add Comment

The 50-ton, 17.5-meter Agni-V missile that can carry a nuclear warhead and travel 5,000 kilometers lifted off at 8:07 a.m. local time from Wheeler Island in the eastern state of Odisha today

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 6:45 AM | Add Comment

The message from some Spanish executives has been that booming Latin America would increasingly reduce their reliance on earnings from recession-hit Spain.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

“They never told me they were with Obama,” she said. “They were very discreet.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 2:55 AM | Add Comment

It is also unclear whether foreign condemnation can force Ms. Kirchner into a rethink—so far she has resisted pressure from both the U.S. and Spain.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

The financial pressure, including an oil embargo and sanctions on the Central Bank, is damaging Syria’s ability “to finance and arm militias, the lethal shabiha death squads,” Mr. Juppé said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

“This war is either going to end in a negotiated solution that involves the Taliban and the government in some way, as distasteful as that may be, or it’s going to end in a retreat,” he said on “Charlie Rose” last June.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Death's Twilight Kingdom Struggles Against Irrelevance...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Hollande blamed the German exchange for encouraging speculation on France’s insolvency, and said that if he were elected he would try to force the contracts to be pulled from the market.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

"This battle is not over," Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau said. "The expropriation is nothing more than a way of covering over the social and economic crisis facing Argentina right now."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 5:45 PM | Add Comment

Rosneft’s effort to complete a similar strategic partnership with BP collapsed last year.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 10:15 AM | Add Comment

“We’re going to continue to see suicide attacks,” Mr. Panetta said. “We’re going to continue to see efforts by them to try to undermine confidence in Afghanistan that we’re headed in the right direction.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

It was the first time a specific motive has been revealed for Neil Heywood's murder last November, a death which ended Chinese leader Bo Xilai's hopes of emerging as a top central leader

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

The story of the agents’ alleged misbehavior became public just as leaders of the Western Hemisphere were beginning talks on trade, drug legalization in South America and creating greater transparency among South American governments.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 12:29 PM | Add Comment

Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson was expected to attend the event, which will be held at Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 8:15 AM | Add Comment

The scale and discipline of the Taliban jailbreak was in stark contrast to the disorganized response of Pakistani security forces.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

President Obama and President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, the host, each proclaimed the Summit of the Americas a success at a joint news conference afterward, though the gathering yielded no major achievement.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

The attacks came near the peak of the American military troop “surge” in Afghanistan, some of it designed around ensuring the security of the capital.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 5:33 AM | Add Comment

Syria's Fate Will Be Determined By Turkey

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Latin American leaders are also pressuring the United States for an overhaul of anti-drug policies, including possible narcotics legalization as a way to take profits out of the trade.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

I argue that the diffusion of power away from governments is one of this century’s great political shifts. & Cyberspace is a perfect example.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 5:31 PM | Add Comment

On Friday, a German-owned ship carrying military equipment and munitions from Iran was stopped from docking in a Syrian port.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

A group of journalists were allowed into North Korea to report on celebrations for the country's founding president, Kim Il-sung.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Some soldiers go crazy and end up “staring into space,” as one veteran put it, unhinged by the dazzling whiteness of rock, sun and snow.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Most Security Council members put the onus for sticking to the cease-fire on the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

At the same time, the commission, composed of five senior judges appointed by Mr. Mubarak, appeared to prove its independence, shutting down the candidate most linked to the Mubarak government

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has little choice but to stick to his father's playbook of milking an impoverished country to develop weapons and blackmail the international community for aid and recognition.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

As concerns grow over Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. is beginning to develop a plan in the event that military intervention is necessary.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

“This is someone who has consistently said if you make concessions, you only whet the appetite of the arrogant powers. He is committed to the nuclear program..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Not unlike the U.S. in some instances: “The wealth is generally not money they themselves have,” he said of Chinese government leaders. “It is money their families generate. The families of various members of the Politburo have very large assets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 9:15 AM | Add Comment

If the talks ultimately fail, both the United States and Israel have refused to rule out military action in order to stop Iran’s steady enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity, just a few technical steps from bomb-grade.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 5:30 AM | Add Comment

A campaign to expose the family’s web of business dealings carries certain risks, given that many members of China’s political elite profit from their connections and often stow their assets outside the country.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

In fact, if the Israelis really are intent on attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities, they’re likely to do so before this November’s American presidential elections.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Female soldiers break barriers in Afghanistan - Rough Cuts

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 1:15 PM | Add Comment

“Obviously, the rocket launch is pretty embarrassing for Kim Jung-un and North Korea.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 5:19 AM | Add Comment

Moreover, administration officials said they feared that the missile launching could be the first in a series of provocations, which could include the test of a nuclear bomb possibly fueled by highly enriched uranium.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

This year, the poppy fields that are so beautiful right now, carpeted with lithe red blossoms, are also sown with land mines — the product of the increased cooperation between poppy farmers and the militants

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

The Chinese authorities said Mr. Bo, who was sacked as Chongqing party chief last month, had been stripped of his remaining party posts, and that his wife, Ms. Gu, was in custody as a suspect in the murder of Mr. Heywood.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 10:31 AM | Add Comment

ASTRAKHAN, Russia

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Wu’s lawyer says his client, now 30, was unfairly singled out and is no different from the estimated 42 million Chinese business owners who rely on the shadow-banking system

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

Aaditya Mattoo, the research manager at the World Bank. “Meanwhile, there are these barriers which American services companies face in establishing abroad, and no one talks about them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Heywood was found dead in a hotel room on Nov. 15 in Chongqinq.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 7:31 PM | Add Comment

McKinsey says the average Asian client has three to four private bankers, and many clients added additional bankers after the financial crisis.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated since 2007. M.E.K. spokesmen have denied any involvement in the killings

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 4:59 PM | Add Comment

Fakhra Younas went under the surgeon’s knife 38 times, hoping to repair the gruesome damage inflicted by a vengeful Pakistani man who had doused her face in acid

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

“We have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence services,” Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director for counterintelligence

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 2:29 PM | Add Comment

“This is an important step in strengthening the sovereignty of Afghanistan,” Mr. Wardak said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

On both sides of the border, there is demand for financial services. Medicine, food and other goods considered essential for Iranians' daily welfare are exempt from U.S. sanctions.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Torture runs for the Egyptian Presidency...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

“This just shows the incredible lack of justice in Russia,” said William F. Browder

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 4:59 AM | Add Comment

“If China continues to invest the way it is doing in the Caribbean, the U.S. is almost making itself irrelevant to the region,” he added. “You don’t leave your flank exposed.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 8:30 PM | Add Comment

The relative rushed back to Lhasa but has not been heard from since and is presumed to be detained.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Martin S. Indyk, a United States ambassador to Israel in the Clinton administration, said that whether intentional or not, Mr. Romney’s statement implied that he would “subcontract Middle East policy to Israel.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

"Give me life, even if a life in flames, or in pain, it doesn't matter," Mr. Chávez said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/7/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

The Obama campaign is seeking to portray Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee, as a national security neophyte

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/7/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

It would be unusual if the world's second-largest economy did not translate its economic power into increased military capacity. - HAK

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/7/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

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