Hanan Ashwari, a senior PLO official, says US President Barack Obama has increased pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to move to face-to-face negotiations with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu.
Two separate fires are still burning near the small mountain town of Tehachapi, meanwhile, a third fire erupted 60 miles away.
The suicide rate in the US military now exceeds the national rate. There were 160 suicides last year, the highest total ever. Suicide rates began rising in 2004, 1 year after the US-led invasion of Iraq and 3 years after the invasion of Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda commander Mohammed Sayeed al Omda said in a recording posted online, Al Qaeda will soon have a fighting force of 12,000 soldiers based in the southern Yemeni cities of Aden and Abyan.






































