Suicide Attack in Afghanistan Kills 13.

At least 13 people are reported killed in a suicide bombing on Friday morning in Afghanistan's Western Farah province, police said. Among the dead was a policeman. The attack also injured about 29 others including 8 children, police said.

The suicide bomber self-detonated next to the governor's house in the capital , Farah city. Police have suspected the bomber to be a Pakistani.

The largely deserted province bordering Iran has seen an increase in bloodshed as Taliban insurgents have spread west from their stronghold in the south and at east of Afghanistan.

The attack occurred a day after Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, was sworn in for another five-term.

Source CNN.

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Obama 'Close' to Afghan Decision.

Mr Obama said a decision would be announced within "several weeks"

President Barack Obama says he is "very close" to deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan and will announce his decision within "several weeks".

Mr Obama also told CNN in China his new strategy would emphasise an "endgame".

The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, wants at least 40,000 more US troops.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Kabul to attend the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai after a fraud-marred poll.

Her visit is a clear sign that the US and its Nato allies have no choice but to work with Mr Karzai and he knows it, the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas says. Pressure is also reported to be mounting on Karzai by the international community for the rampant corruption in his government. He has been charged to fight against it.

Source BBC

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Israeli Settlement Plan Denounced.

The Israeli government considers Gilo an integral part of Jerusalem.

The US and UN have criticised Israel's approval of 900 extra housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the move would hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Their remarks came after Israel's interior ministry approved planning applications for the new units.

The planning and construction committee authorised the expansion of Gilo, which is built on land captured in 1967.

The land was later annexed to the Jerusalem municipality.

Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers have demolished two homes in East Jerusalem, a further cause of Palestinian anger.

Thirty people were displaced when the first home was knocked down in the Beit Hanina area of East Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, rights groups said.

Source BBC

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on TV part 2

ABC is remaking the 1983 sci-fi serial V. The original was a thinly veiled allegory of the Nazi rise to power and this time around it looks like it hasn't lost any of its social commentary. The basic premise is that a technologically advanced alien race lands on earth to refuel its ships offering all kinds of goodies including universal healthcare that they use to entice the youth to support them. It comes to Light that they have infiltrated high government positions. Underneath their beautiful appearance and utopian rhetoric are evil reptilian beasts trying to subjugate the human race. See where this is going?

On TV part1

To coincide with the one year anniversary of Obama's election HBO Aired a documentary produced by Edward Norton recorded over a two year period leading up to Nov. 4, 2008. The access granted to the filmmakers, especially in the early stages of the campaign, is extraordinary. Though Norton has claimed that he took a non-partisan archivists approach, at least the timing of this documentary surely has some political intentions. Its hard to deny the power of reliving these moments which surely will seem even more powerful in retrospect.