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Senior military officials order trims as Pentagon prepares for shortfall Jan 22nd 2013, 23:30 Bracing for the possibility of steep congressionally mandated budget cuts, senior military officials have issued directives for fiscal retrenchment that include a 30 percent cut for Army base operations this year, personnel reductions and a halt to unnecessary fighter jet swoops during special events. Read full article >> Clinton to appear before Congress over Benghazi attack Jan 22nd 2013, 22:30 In one of her last duties as America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will appear before both houses of Congress on Wednesday to answer questions about a terror attack that killed four Americans in Libya and exposed lapses in judgment and security at the State Department. Read full article >> Gen. John Allen cleared in misconduct inquiry Jan 22nd 2013, 22:20 The Pentagon's inspector general has cleared the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan of wrongdoing following an investigation into whether he exchanged inappropriate e-mails with the same Tampa socialite involved in the scandal that prompted the resignation of CIA Director David H. Petraeus, according to senior U.S. officials. Read full article >> Netanyahu, the Israeli election and peace with Palestine Jan 22nd 2013, 22:08 Early exit poll returns from Israel, which is having its national election today, show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likely to return to power, though weakened and more reliant on other parties. What does the election mean for the Israel-Palestine peace process? Centrist parties, which favor pursuing a two-state solution, saw surprising success in the exit polls. But to a lesser degree, so did a the rising star of the settler movement, a religious nationalist party called Jewish Home. That is not a necessarily great sign for a two-state solution. Read full article >> Netanyahu emerges weakened from Israeli elections Jan 22nd 2013, 21:24 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged weakened and facing a redrawn political map Tuesday after Israeli television projections showed a surge for a new centrist party, Yesh Atid, in Israel's elections, making it a key element of a future coalition. Read full article >> Looking for al-Qaeda in Algeria Jan 22nd 2013, 19:27 Perhaps the most significant question surrounding last week's hostage crisis in Algeria, reportedly masterminded by a 40-year-old Islamist militant named Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has to do with the role of al-Qaeda in that attack and in the region more broadly. Read full article >> Poland braces for fresh exodus of workers Jan 22nd 2013, 18:52 MONKI, Poland — When the financial crisis hit Europe five years ago, Poland's economy continued to boom and the flood of young Poles heading west slowed to a trickle. But with the economy now weakening, the country is bracing for a new exodus. Read full article >> Clinton to be grilled over diplomatic security in Benghazi hearings Jan 22nd 2013, 16:16 For more than two decades, federal law has required the State Department to select the cheapest, rather than the best, contractor to provide local guard services at its embassies abroad. The "lowest price" provision, a half-sentence buried in 1990 legislation designed to give U.S.-owned security companies an edge in contract bidding, applies to virtually no other part of the U.S. government. Read full article >> Map: The countries most at risk for a coup in 2013 Jan 22nd 2013, 16:13 When Sen. Lamar Alexander spoke Monday at President Obama's inauguration, he threw some healthy context into his praise of the U.S. practice of peacefully transferring power between leaders. "There is no mob, no coup, no insurrection," he said. It's a point so obvious, so taken for granted, that it's almost an anachronism. Read full article >> Bolshoi Ballet appoints interim director Jan 22nd 2013, 15:21 MOSCOW — The Bolshoi Ballet appointed a temporary artistic director Tuesday to oversee the company while Sergei Filin recovers from an acid attack that disfigured his face and injured his eyes. Galina Stepanenko, a prize-winning dancer with the Bolshoi since 1990, was presented as the interim director at a meeting of the troupe Tuesday. Anatoly Iksanov, the general director, said she would guide the company until Filin, who was attacked late Thursday, returns to work. Stepanenko, a teacher and choreographer, began her career with the Moscow Classical Ballet in 1984. Read full article >> French troops greeted as liberators in Mali Jan 22nd 2013, 14:00 Not long after French troops secured the Malian town of Diabaly, pushing out the Islamist rebels who had seized it five days earlier, the Post's Sudarsan Raghavan arrived. In his dispatch from Diabaly, he finds a number of residents who seem grateful for the military intervention, citing both the cruelty of the rebels and lack of civilian casualties from the French assault. Read full article >>

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