 | Irish Times - TÁNAISTE AND Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has expressed concern over the possibility of Israeli settlement expansion between Jerusalem and the large West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Nicole Gaouette and Flavia Krause-Jackson Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend a United Nations Security Council meeting Jan. 31 to show support for an Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria,... |
 | Los Angeles Times - 'We will go all the way to the convention,' says the former House speaker after a bruising campaign week. Rick Santorum cancels appearances to be with his sick daughter. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Broader restrictions on oil exports and banking may damage the economy enough to force Iran to change course. Or maybe the move will just stir anger. |
 | New York Times - AMMAN, Jordan - Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, made a rare and pointedly low-key visit to Jordan on Sunday, days after Hamas officials signaled that he had effectively abandoned the group's base in Damascus, the Syrian capital. |
 | Aljazeera.com - President uses televised address to announce bid to raise taxes, rejuvenate the country and boost employment. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has laid out his plan to rejuvenate the economy and boost employment by raising the consumption tax in a bid ... |
 | Haaretz - By Akiva Eldar Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu Israel settlers Israel settlements If Moshe Feiglin had not existed, Benjamin Netanyahu would have been obliged to invent him. |
 | Huffington Post - It's an impressive piece of art: the cover of this week's New York Times Magazine. "ISRAEL VS. IRAN," spelled out in charred black lettering, with flame and smoke still rising from "IRAN," as if the great war were already over. |
 | Haaretz - Families demanding state comptroller's final report on the Carmel fire assign blame to police officials who commanded a rescue operation in which a bus was sent to evacuate Damon Prison. |
 | Jerusalem Post - By YAAKOV KATZ 01/30/2012 05:10 Defense Ministry says a civilian company will begin work south of the Dead Sea and along the border with Jordan in the coming weeks. |
 | International Middle East Media Center - The Israeli Police shut down, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian institutions in Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, under the claims that they are being financed by the Hamas movement. |
 | Reuters - | BEIJING Jan 30 (Reuters) - China's embassy in Sudan has lost contact with 29 Chinese construction workers held by rebels in the strife-troubled border state of South Kordofan, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. |
 | Houston Chronicle - A protester holds a bloodied pamphlet after clashes erupted outside the Egyptian state TV building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. |
 | CNN (blog) - Editor's Note: This is an edited version of an article from the 'Oxford Analytica Daily Brief'. Oxford Analytica is a global analysis and advisory firm that draws on a worldwide network of experts to advise its clients on their strategy and performance ... |
 | New York Times - CAIRO - Egypt's military rulers have asked a panel of advisers for suggestions about handing over power to civilians earlier than the scheduled deadline at the end of June, state news media reported Sunday. |
 | Arab News - By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Prospective Gulf workers' medical reports issued from 11 manpower exporting countries will be electronically linked to the GCC health ministers' secretariat and to countries in the region. |
 | DAWN.com - KABUL, Jan 29: Afghanistan and Pakistan plan to open a second front in negotiations with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia as US-brokered talks get under way in Qatar, officials said on Sunday. |
 | Xinhua - BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) --The 18th African Union Summit opens on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Leaders and delegates from 50 members of the union will focus on boosting African trade, amid growing global economic uncertainty. |
 | Fox News - GIGLIO, Italy - The cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - NEW YORK (AP) - The Human Rights Watch is clarifying its position on the embattled Yemeni president Ali Abdulla Saleh getting medical treatment in the United States. |
 | Vanguard - By Abdulwahab Abdulah LAGOS - The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has expressed solidarity with President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government in the effort to stamp out the menace of Boko Haram and other vices in the ... |
 | Jerusalem Post - By HERB KEINON 01/30/2012 04:43 Netanyahu says the railway would make it possible to travel from TA to Eilat in 2 hours, facilitate transporting goods to Europe. |
 | Fox News - JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight. |
 | Xinhua - ATHENS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos dismissed on Sunday the idea that a European Commissioner should oversee the execution of the Greek state budget, as the debt-laden country struggles to overcome a financial crisis ... |
 | io9 - We hear a lot about the downside of plugged-in teenagers - the anxiety the experience on social media, sexting, cyberbullying - but that doesn't mean that teens don't feel some psychological benefits from all that time spent online. |
 | BBC News - The bunkers, on the border with Jordan, have been turned into official bat caves, helping to save the endangered mammals from extinction. |
 | Ynetnews - During a program aired on Palestinian television last week, the aunt of one of the Palestinians who took part in the brutal murder of five members of the Fogel family in the West Bank last march referred to him as a "hero" and "legend. |
 | Los Angeles Times - An exuberance of awards in Park City, Utah, only highlights the astonishing amount of cinematic ground that Sundance covers. A scene from the movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Gwen Ackerman and Shoshanna Solomon Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. declined the most in a month, closing the gap with US-traded shares, as a competitor received clearance to sell a generic version of Lovenox and a unit ... |
 | Montreal Gazette - A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child's family told AFP on Friday. |