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...brought further reminders of the bloody rifts that still crisscross the country. On Saturday, the top official in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voiced anger over what he described as provocative troop movements by the central government around Kirkuk, the disputed oil-rich city. The Associated Press reported that the Kurdish prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, denounced a move by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy Iraqi soldiers ahead of the provincial balloting on the outskirts of Kirkuk, which both the Iraqi central government and Kurdistan regional authorities claim. The Iraqi government denied the accusation, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quiet Election Masks the Iraqi Option for Violence | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

Netanyahu's support may also be eroding because Israeli right-wingers have found a new champion, Avigdor Lieberman, 50. A Moldovan-born immigrant and ex-nightclub bouncer, Lieberman is denounced by the leftist Israeli press as "a racist" and a nationalist in the mold of Russia's Vladimir Putin. He wants Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or lose their voting rights; and he is demanding that borders be re-drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Elections: Making a Hard Right | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

...conceived through IVF with the same sperm donor. Nadya confirmed in a TV interview that six were implanted, with two resulting in twins. The sperm donor remains unidentified; one person ruled out was Nadya's ex-husband Marcos Gutierrez (their divorce was finalized last year). Angela told the Associated Press that her daughter opted for IVF treatment because her Fallopian tubes were "plugged up" and that she decided to have more children so the frozen embryos left over from her previous fertilizations wouldn't be destroyed. In her television interview, Nadya said she wanted lots of children because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Octuplets Mom Speaks, and the Questions Grow | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...Fairey, Shepard • efforts of Associated Press-after year-late realization that iconic Obama image designed by was based on an AP photo-to squeeze some money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...After communing with five of his staff members, Nelson left to vote on another amendment - the fifth of 13 Thursday evening. Upon returning, he gave another impromptu press conference. Wearily, he ran a hand through his thick head of hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Ben Nelson Get a Bipartisan Stimulus Win? | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

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