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...Overall attendance at Chinese language courses were estimated around 480 students as of Wednesday, down slightly from nearly 500 on Monday, according to Shengli Feng, the director of the Chinese language program. These numbers are still substantially higher than the approximately 350 students who Feng said enrolled last year...
Israel's new season of political turmoil kicks off on Wednesday when the ruling Kadima party stages a primary to choose a leader to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The beleaguered Olmert is resigning as party chairman after being mired in a quicksand of corruption allegations, but Wednesday's primaries are expected to begin a protracted period of political jockeying in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, as the new Kadima leader seeks to build a governing coalition...
...reassure AIG's customers that there would be no such event. The "financial resources" of AIG's Singapore-based insurance subsidiary currently met its requirements, regulators stated in a press release. But so far, consumers in this global market have been far from comforted. Standing in the crowd on Wednesday, Karen Foo, 29, said she was only dimly aware of the underlying assets in the investment trust her insurance policy is linked to. She was determined to sell at the earliest opportunity. "I'm a little worried," Foo said with a tight smile...
...attack had gone according to plan, it would have killed or wounded countless U.S. diplomats in the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden within a week of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Although Wednesday's attack on the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a left at least 16 people dead, the bravery and quick reaction of Yemeni security forces foiled what appeared to be a daring attempt to storm the embassy compound and kill everyone inside. One American of Yemeni origins was among the victims of the thwarted attack...
...U.S.S. Cole in Aden's harbor, killing 17 U.S. servicemen. Three months before 9/11, Yemeni authorities arrested eight people in a plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Sana'a. And only last March, there was a failed mortar attack on the embassy compound. Despite the deaths of Wednesday's attackers, the carnage at the embassy in Sana'a is a clear sign that al-Qaeda's deeds in Yemen are far from done. (See Pictures of the Week here...