Israeli reaction varies to Obama's stance on 1967 borders

(CNN) -- Reaction in Israel has varied to President Barack Obama's endorsement of the long-held but rarely stated U.S. support for a future Palestinian state based on borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/20/israel.obama.reaction/index.html?eref=edition_meast&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_meast+%28RSS%3A+Middle+East%29

Obama and Netanyahu admit 'differences' on Middle East

US President Barack Obama and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu have admitted to "differences" on the path to Mid-East peace, after they met in Washington.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13476571

Netanyahu: No return to 1967 borders

Israeli leader says Obama's call for future Palestinian state based on 1967 borders would leave country "indefensible"

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/05/2011520181538261950.html

Tony Blair gives reaction to Obama Arab Spring speech

Quartet representative to the Middle East, Tony Blair tells Newsnight that US President Barack Obama's State Department speech - in which he has said a "new chapter in American diplomacy" has been reached in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings - provides a framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9491507.stm

IMF says Strauss-Kahn to get $250,000 in severance

(Reuters) - Former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn will receive a one-off severance payment of $250,000, but receive far less in future years from pension and related payments, the global lender said on Friday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-strausskahn-severance-idUSTRE74J5BG20110520?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

French woman won't testify in Strauss-Kahn U.S. case

(Reuters) - A French woman considering filing a complaint against Dominique Strauss-Kahn over an alleged 2002 sexual assault does not want to testify in an attempted rape case against the former IMF chief in New York, her lawyer said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-strausskahn-complaint-idUSTRE74J57C20110520?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

Frank Browning: DSK: American Shame, French Surveillance

French socialists are suffering the blues over the degrading, apparent demise of the most hopeful and intelligent challenger to France’s rightward political drift, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at the hands of New York’s finest and America’s most shameless hot-flash media. Whatever DSK, a Lothario well known to the Paris press for many years, did to the hapless West African chamber maid at the Midtown Sofitel, itself an established nest of French business tycoons, diplomats, and spies, is not the highly regarded chief of the IMF deserving of at least a superficial presumption of innocence?...

http://hnn.us/node/139359

Russia presses U.S. for guarantee on missile shield

(Reuters) - Moscow has pressed for binding guarantees that a European missile shield would not weaken its nuclear arsenal, saying on Friday that the system now planned by the United States could threaten Russia's security after 2015.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/us-russia-usa-arms-idUSTRE74J52X20110520?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

Japanese nuclear boss quits over $15bn loss

TEPCO president announces his resignation as company reports record loss in wake of quake-triggered Fukushima crisis.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/05/20115207222428543.html

Ahmadinejad oil ministry move 'illegal'

Iran's constitutional council rules out president's self-appointment as caretaker oil minister.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011520152450220731.html

Cloud hangs over Ouattara's inauguration

Ivory Coast's president seeks to heal a fractured nation still reeling from bloody stalemate.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152010329184229.html

Egypt's crackdown now wears camouflage

The military has seized on post-revolution fears to disappear thousands into its opaque prisons.