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...from across the country, because an historic crisis demands an historic response,” Obama said according to a posted transcript of the Friday press conference. Feldstein will maintain his Harvard teaching duties while advising the president. He is one of several board members whose economic views may conflict with dominant policy-makers in the Democratic administration. “Not everyone is going to agree with each other, and not all of them are going to agree with me—and that’s precisely the point,” said Obama, according to his transcribed...
...January 2006, but after Israel's 22-day pummeling of Gaza, their quarrel has become intensely personal. Hamas officials have accused Abbas' former national security chief, Mohamed Dahlan, of colluding with Israelis in advance of the invasion in a bid to weaken Hamas' resistance. (View images of Fatah-Hamas conflict...
...those executed in Gaza are not the only casualties from the fallout of Israel's offensive: President Abbas himself and his U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations with the Israelis have also suffered. Abbas' behavior during the conflict, when he tried to score points against Hamas instead of rallying support against Israel's assault, has shrunk his already low credibility among Palestinians and the Arab world...
...economic pressures increase, the potential for conflict clearly grows also. "Traditionally ... migrants don't compete for [the] same jobs as native populations," says Pandya. "But the moment [those native-born] people think they have to find any job, they will be in direct competition with migrants. That's where friction arises...
...Khartoum-based government suspects the government of South Sudan of rearming ahead of a 2011 referendum in which southerners will decide whether to break away and form a separate nation. Some analysts have suggested that the tanks could be part of a new, more robust southern Sudanese ground force. Conflict between Sudan's north and south in the 1980s and '90s killed more than 2 million people. A peace deal in 2005 ended hostilities but opened the way for an independent South Sudan, a possibility Khartoum is determined to halt. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...