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Jordan’s King Abdullah swore in a new government on Wednesday, replacing a business friendly prime minister with an ex-general in response to anti-government protests inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. US ally Abdullah appointed Marouf Bakhit, a conservative former premier drawn from the ranks of the powerful security establishment, last week to replace Samir Rifai, who was dismissed after ... Read More »

Finally the US President Barack Obama  has come out of hiding regarding WikiLeaks’s latest leaks. President Obama offered his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks’ “deplorable” documents dump. At the same time, calls for worldwide demonstrations to support the site’s founder drew only tiny crowds. The US President made his comments in a call to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Read More »