Roundup of Saudi Egypt tensions and isolated attacks
Saudi Arabia closes its Cairo embassy and recalls its ambassador after protests over detained Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed el Gezawi, with Egypt seeking to heal the rift. In Afghanistan, two Taliban militants in shoes try to assassinate a provincial governor, resulting in two attackers and two guards dead. A Florida police chief’s wife accidentally ran over a family friend’s 22 month old son, with no charges filed. In Minnesota, Maplewood council member cites inadvertent topless image email to a reporter, linked to a controversial Walk Naked for America Day concept targeting Muslim men.
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Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Cairo
Ahmed el-Gezawi
Oilrich
Hosni Mubarak
Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood
Gulf
Hussein Tantawi
Kandahar
Afghanistan
Toorvalai Wesa
Parwiz Najib
Titusville
Fla
Florida
Pamela Bodenheimer
Titusville High School
Brady Hutto
Maplewood
Minn
Bob Cardinal
St. Paul
U S China talks overshadowed by Chen case and jet sale
As U S China diplomacy nears the annual talks Secretary Clinton and Geithner lead the U S side while a Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng seeks U S embassy protection after escaping house arrest. A White House letter hints at possible sale of new warplanes to Taiwan, risking Chinese ire and complicating negotiations.
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Washington
USS
Taiwan
Chen Guangcheng
China
U.S
Beijing
Hillary Clinton
Treasury
Timothy Geithner
Ning
White House
Rob Nabors
John Cornyn
Barack Obama
Asia
Amer
Ica
North Korea
Iran
Chen
China Aid Association
Cui Tiankai
State Department
Victoria Nuland
Murder suspect dead in bunker near North Bend
Peter Keller, a 41 year old described as survivalist, died of a gunshot during a police raid on an underground bunker on Rattlesnake Ridge after eight years of concealment. Investigators found a fortified lair with at least 13 guns, ammunition, and supplies, and linked him to the deaths of his wife Lynnettee and daughter Karlene last weekend.
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North Bend
Wash
Peter Keller
Keller
Lynnettee
Kaylene
Rattlesnake Ridge
Cindi West
Cascade Mountains
SWAT
Sheriff’s Office
Syria accuses U N chief of bias over cease fire
Beir ut reports say Syria denounces Ban Ki moon as biased after he blamed the regime for cease fire violations. Activists report fighting near Assad s summer palace and shelling Damascus suburbs as U N envoy s mood moves to deploy monitors under Kofi Annan s six point plan.
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Beirut
Syria
U.N
Ban Ki-moon
Bashar Assad
Damascus
Assad
Kofi Annan
Robert Mood
Neeraj Singh
Annan
Ban
State lawmakers rally to Arizona immigration echoes
Legislators and activists nationwide plan to push Arizona style measures if the Supreme Court upholds key parts of SB 1070. Leaders say police status checks and warrantless arrests could spur bills in about a dozen states, with Alabama Mississippi Pennsylvania and others weighing similar rules.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Arizona
William Gheen
Americans For Legal Immigration
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Dan Stein
Federation For American Immigration Reform
Stein
Alabama
Georgia
Indiana
South Carolina
Utah
High Court
Scott Benson
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
U.S
Daryl Metcalfe
House
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