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Palestinian search for U.N. membership puts U.S. in bind

Palestinian leaders will ask the U.N. Security Council for full United Nations membership, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, despite a U.S. vow to veto the move and fears that it could deal a fatal blow to the moribund peace process. | 09/14/11 07:37:00 By - Sheera Frenkel and Jonathan S. Landay

Bill Richardson leaves Cuba without U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, in a stunning setback, says he will leave Cuba on Wednesday without even meeting seeing a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana for nearly 22 months. | 09/14/11 06:49:46 By - Juan O. Tamayo

Libya's rebels are having tough time consolidating their control

Backers of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi staged a daring guerrilla-style raid Monday on the oil refinery at Ras Lanouf, killing 17 rebel soldiers in the latest military setback for a movement that's struggling to consolidate its power nearly three weeks after it surprised the world with a dramatic takeover of Tripoli. | 09/13/11 07:48:44 By - Roy Gutman

Coca-Cola in tax tiff with France

The relationship between Georgia-based Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc, and the French government has fizzled in recent weeks after that nation proposed adding an extra tax on sugary soft drinks. | 09/13/11 07:48:24 By - Halimah Abdullah

As Europe's problems deepen, many global stocks sink

Fears of a European banking crisis spread across the globe again Monday in the latest outbreak of financial anxiety that's becoming all too commonplace. Experts warn that investors had better get used to it because Europe's problems - and their threat to America and the rest of the world - will take time to sort out. | 09/13/11 07:48:05 By - Kevin G. Hall

Egypt police raid Al Jazeera office as sense of crisis grows

Security police raided the Egyptian offices of the Al Jazeera news channel Sunday and detained a member of its technical staff in the first move of its kind against a foreign news organization since the ruling military council declared a state of emergency in the wake of the storming of the Israeli embassy here. | 09/12/11 07:54:50 By - Mohannad Sabry

Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors

The attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has brought into sharp relief Israel's increasing isolation in a still region grappling with the changes of the Arab Spring. | 09/10/11 17:56:09 By - Sheera Frenkel

Egypt declares emergency after Israeli embassy attack

Egypt declared a state of emergency Saturday after a mob stormed the Israeli embassy, forcing the evacuation of the ambassador and dealing what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "severe injury to the fabric of peace" between the two increasingly uneasy allies. | 09/10/11 16:10:14 By - Mohannad Sabry

Libya looks to restart oil production, but skirmishes go on

Libya's transitional government plans to resume crude oil and gas production within days, a senior official said Saturday, even as revolutionary fighters were driven back in their attempt to oust holdouts loyal to ex-strongman Moammar Gadhafi. | 09/10/11 16:02:14 By - Roy Gutman and David Enders

Rebels say Gadhafi loyalists holding hostages outside Sirte

Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have moved hundreds of hostages to a village outside Sirte in what appear to be preparations for a final violent stand, officials of the National Transitional Council said Thursday. | 09/09/11 13:17:30 By - Roy Gutman and David Enders

U.S. Consulate in Fresno to assist Mexican workers

The federal government on Thursday signed an agreement with the Mexican Consulate in Fresno to help local Mexican nationals understand their workplace rights. | 09/09/11 12:24:16 By - John Ellis

Arms smuggling explodes across Egypt-Libya border

The NATO-backed war in Libya has turned the ramshackle Egyptian border town of Salloum into a multimillion-dollar smuggling hub, with at least two huge shipments of weapons seized in recent weeks and many more loads passing into Egypt undetected, smugglers and military officials say. | 09/09/11 06:31:01 By - Mohannad Sabry

U.S. and Europe to fight pirates who steal fish on the high seas

Illegal fishing undermines efforts to stop overfishing and shrinks the profits of legal commercial fishermen, the oceans chiefs of the United States and the European Union declared on Wednesday, as they pledged to cooperate to nab fish pirates. | 09/08/11 14:25:42 By - Renee Schoof

A Gadhafi exile in Africa is unlikely, experts say

Despite reports that Moammar Gadhafi is fleeing toward Niger or nearby Burkina Faso, few experts on African politics believe it is likely he would be granted refuge in either country. | 09/08/11 08:08:52 By - Alan Boswell

Mexico's Monterrey, famed for industrial might, slipping into gangsters' grip

Out of the desert scrub, the tycoons of Monterrey have erected an industrial powerhouse that is a beacon across Latin America. But with a speed that has surprised even astute industrialists, gangsters have brought the prosperous metropolis to its knees. The news in Monterrey grows darker by the day. | 09/08/11 07:42:22 By - Tim Johnson

Bill Richardson in Cuba to seek release of Alan Gross

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson flew to Cuba on Wednesday at the invitation of the Raúl Castro government, apparently to discuss the release of a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana for 22 months. | 09/08/11 06:57:51 By - Juan O. Tamayo

2 convoys of Gadhafi aides roll into Niger, but where's their leader?

As members of the ousted government of Moammar Gadhafi rolled into Niger with gold, jewels, cash and other state property on Tuesday, the U.S. said it had asked Niger to arrest those who could be prosecuted and return the property to the people of Libya. | 09/07/11 07:58:40 By - Roy Gutman and Jonathan S. Landay

Possible al Qaida revenge blast kills 23 in Pakistan

Two suicide bombers attacked the home of a senior military officer Wednesday in the western city of Quetta, wounding him and killing at least 23 people in a possible revenge attack for Pakistan’s recent arrest of a senior al Qaida commander. | 09/07/11 07:00:47 By - Saeed Shah

NATO strategy for Gadhafi holdouts: first leaflets, then bombs

As Libya's revolutionary regime prepares for a military assault on three towns still controlled by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists, NATO aircraft backing the new authorities aren't just destroying missiles and tanks. | 09/06/11 18:40:42 By - Roy Gutman

WikiLeaks: China wanted to invest in U.S. banks during '08 crisis

During the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, a top Chinese banker told U.S. officials that his company and others in China were interested in taking significant stakes in U.S. banks but expected a backlash from regulators and the American public, according to U.S. diplomatic memos. | 09/06/11 10:04:04 By - Rick Rothacker

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