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• American students in North Africa wait and watch to see if conflict will spread
  An hour's travel away, the U.S. flag is burning.September 15, 2012
• Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film
  Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt's Islamist president.September 14, 2012
• Obama honors return of Libya attack victims
  President Barack Obama has paid tribute to Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others killed in the assault on the U.S. compound in Libya, calling them patriots who served America's ideals -- and laid down their lives for others.September 14, 2012
• Embassies targeted as anti-film protests spread
  Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Middle East Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan and torching part of a German embassy.September 14, 2012
• The Week in Commentary
  A review of the week's commentaries and some of the comments they elicited.September 14, 2012
• US braces for more violence from anti-Muslim film
  The Obama administration was caught by surprise by the ferocity of the Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Now it is bracing for another potential eruption of violent demonstrations in parts of the Muslim world.September 13, 2012
• Roundtable: How did conventions set up presidential race?
  We'll look at Gov. Mark Dayton's renewed call for taxes on the highest income earners, why there isn't a viable third party, and how the conventions set up the last 60 days of the presidential race.The Daily Circuit, September 13, 2012
• Evolution of the Arab Spring
  In the wake of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, we'll look at the evolution of the Arab Spring. Could tension between Islamists and secularists threaten the stability of the new governments in Egypt and Libya?The Daily Circuit, September 13, 2012
• FACT CHECK: Romney misstates Libya facts
  The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened.September 13, 2012
• Protesters storm US embassy in Yemen
  American missions have been attacked in three Arab nations -- Yemen, Egypt and Libya -- that have faced persistent unrest and are struggling to restore law and order after last year's revolts deposed their authoritarian regimes.September 13, 2012
• Obama: Romney tends to 'shoot first and aim later'
  President Barack Obama fires back at his Republican challenger over his comments about the handling of foreign attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East.September 13, 2012
• Californian admits role in anti-Islam film
  The anti-Muslim film implicated in mob protests against U.S. diplomatic missions received logistical help from a man once convicted of financial crimes and featured actors who complained about inflammatory dialogue dubbed in after filming.September 13, 2012
• Nazi Germany really did have prisoners of fashion
  In the words of one expert, the dictatorship reached all the way into the sewing box.September 13, 2012
• BBC's coverage of anti-American protests and reaction
  After an attack in Libya that killed four Americans earlier this week, the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen is the scene of the latest anti-American protest in the Middle East. Hundreds of protesters stormed the embassy compound today and burned the American flag. Our coverage of this breaking story continues with the BBC's "World Have Your Say" program.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, September 13, 2012
• US officials: Warships, Marines dispatched to Libya
  The Pentagon ordered two warships to the Libyan coast in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others, U.S. officials said Wednesday.September 12, 2012

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