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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi holds forth on Planet of the Apes' Nov 28th 2012, 22:24 Mohamed Morsi, the engineer and Muslim Brotherhood ally who became Egypt's first-ever democratically elected president this year and who last week sent his country's political system into chaos by granting himself sweeping new powers, appears to hold strong views on the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes." Read full article >> U.S. Embassy in Cairo goes rogue on Twitter Nov 28th 2012, 22:19 The U.S. Embassy in Egypt has earned a reputation for going rogue on Twitter, and with this latest bout of political unrest, @USEmbassyCairo is at it again. A series of tweets this morning seemed to imply that the person behind the account considers Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at risk of becoming a dictator. That differs from the State Department's official statement, Josh Rogin writes at Foreign Policy, and seems to take a much harsher stance than spokeswoman Victoria Nulandsaid did in a vague and "carefully worded" response to the president's moves last week. Read full article >> Report: Probe into Afghan bank scandal plagued by political interference Nov 28th 2012, 22:10 KABUL—A scathing new report released Wednesday details how high-level political interference and institutional failures thwarted efforts to probe the 2010 collapse of Afghanistan's largest bank, recover hundreds of millions of dollars from fraudulent loans and prosecute the influential Afghans who profited from a massive scheme to use depositors' money as a private piggy bank. Read full article >> Egyptian judges, courts step up fight against Morsi edict Nov 28th 2012, 21:05 CAIRO — The Egyptian judiciary intensified its resistance Wednesday to a move last week by President Mohamed Morsi to greatly enlarge his power, as the country's top courts joined a growing number of striking judges in expressions of dissent. Read full article >> An ending in Afghanistan: U.S. closes Forward Operating Base Tillman Nov 28th 2012, 18:44 Just a few short miles from the Pakistani border, on a plateau above the Afghan village of Lawara, sits a small U.S. fire base named after army ranger Pat Tillman. Now, the United States is shutting down the base, according to a report in The Hill. Read full article >> On top of everything else, Egypt now risking constitutional crisis Nov 28th 2012, 17:35 Eight months after Egypt's Constitutional Assembly first convened to begin the difficult and complex task of drafting the country's post-revolution constitution, a document meant to guide and define the newly democratic nation, the assembly announced this morning that it will finish the "final draft" today and vote on it tomorrow. Read full article >> A theory for how China's state newspaper got fooled' by The Onion Nov 28th 2012, 16:17 Not long after the satirical U.S. outlet The Onion named North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun its "sexiest man alive for 2012," the only non-North Korean newspaper in the world that loves Kim more picked up the story: the People's Daily, or its English-language online edition, at least. The official outlet of the Chinese Communist Party seemed to miss the satire, though, trumpeting The Onion's award and attaching it to a 50-plus-photo slideshow of Dear Leader. Read full article >> Iran shows new submarines and warships, touts self-sufficiency in defense Nov 28th 2012, 15:23 Iran's state television has posted a short video that shows what the Iranians say are "indigenously built" warship and submarines. The two Ghadir class submarines, which can fire missiles and torpedoes at the same time, and the Sina-7 warship were launched at Bandar Abbas, near the Strait of Hormuz. Read full article >> Saudi diplomat shot dead in Yemeni capital Nov 28th 2012, 15:11 SANAA, Yemen — Gunmen killed a Saudi diplomat and his Yemeni bodyguard on a busy street in the capital here Wednesday, the latest in a string of assassinations of government figures in this impoverished Middle Eastern country. Read full article >>

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