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Until then, Peoria seemed to have been coping with the recession. The region's unemployment rate had risen only modestly, from 4.5% to 6.2%, between November 2007 and November 2008. Home sales had fallen slightly, but far less than the state's average. So news of Caterpillar's crisis landed with a painful thud in the city of roughly 113,000, which counts the company as its largest employer. Caterpillar hasn't disclosed how many of its displaced workers live in this region, but about one-quarter of its global workforce is based in Illinois, mostly around Peoria. As light...
...Washington Envoy Expectations President Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, kicked off a weeklong trip to the Middle East on Jan. 27, intended to bolster peace and stability in the region and extend the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Mitchell's trip, which has included stops in Egypt and Israel for meetings with senior officials, came as a flare-up of violence in Gaza left two people dead. Mitchell also plans to visit other key regional players in the peace process, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Mitchell is not scheduled to meet with Hamas representatives during...
...self-described "court of last resort," which operates independently of the U.N., was created to oversee large-scale human-rights violations--like those allegedly orchestrated by Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, the court's first defendant. The trial of Lubanga for training child-soldiers during the region's 2002-03 ethnic conflict is also the first test of an international law allowing victims--like the 93 people expected to testify against him--to play a direct role in court. The ICC has 108 member countries. That does not include the U.S., which never ratified the treaty establishing the court...
...withdrawal from Iraq tends to center on the threats of jihadist insurgents, friction between the Sunni Awakening militias and the Shi'ite-led government, and intra-Shi'ite power struggles. But U.S. commanders in Diyala province believe that mounting tensions between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the north could produce one of the most dangerous flash points...
...moment, the Obama Administration is being careful to publicly distance the Special Envoy from the region's most intractable problem. State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters on Tuesday that "it's not in [Holbrooke's] mandate...to deal with the subject of Kashmir." And the White House has also been careful to deny that India's lobbying played any role in the formation of Holbrooke's diplomatic charge; not only has it insisted that it held no meetings with foreign governments or their representatives with respect to the assignment, but it has also claimed that Obama never actually intended...