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Airstrikes by American forces continued for a second night in Libya. Over the weekend British forces targeted Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, but today the chief of the UK Defence Staff said Qaddafi himself was “absolutely not” a target.

Without constitutional reform, democracy in Tunisia will be difficult. That’s according to Christopher Alexander, political science professor at Davidson College and author of “Tunisia: Stability and Reform in the Modern Maghreb.”

The Obama administration has high hopes of passing the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia during this lame duck session of Congress. In spite of overwhelming support from across the political spectrum, Republican leaders in the Senate show a reluctance to vote on the measure.