Speaker Pelosi meets with King Abdullah of Jordan in Washington
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), King Abdullah II of Jordan and his wife Queen Rania speak to the press prior to a meeting with in the Capitol Building in Washington on April 22, 2009. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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Pope Francis met Thursday with King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan in an audience at the Vatican.
Surrounded by crises in all its Arab neighbors, Israeli leaders are not about to facilitate the birth of a Palestinian state.
King Abdullah II is setting the scene for a political revolution in his desert nation with landmark parliamentary elections scheduled for 2013.
Jordanian tribal leaders have accused Queen Rania of corruption, stealing land from the people and money from the Treasury to "promote her public image."
Jordan's Queen Rania urged Israel and the Palestinians to keep talking as the moratorium on new Israeli housing in the disputed region expired.
U.S. actress Mia Farrow is visiting Gaza and the West Bank to raise awareness of the plight of children in conflict zones, the United Nations said.
A fresh solution for the Palestinians by the Palestinians is now making the rounds of national-security advisers from Washington to Warsaw. "One-staters" are edging aside advocates of the two-state solution. Highlights of the suggested solution.
French first lady and former supermodel Carla Bruni will likely join husband President Nicolas Sarkozy on a Quebec visit, government sources said.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," reads part of an inscription on the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, once the gateway to the New World.
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