{"id":4280,"date":"2009-03-02T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2009-03-02T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:11:59","slug":"world-links-guinea-bissau-president-assassinated-british-pm-visits-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links-guinea-bissau-president-assassinated-british-pm-visits-washington\/4280\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: Guinea Bissau President Assassinated; British PM Visits Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/2009\/03\/wa_img-guinea_bissau_map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"197\" \/>Two rivals in Guinea Bissau &#8212; its president and army chief &#8212; are <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200903020710.html\" target=\"_blank\">both assassinated<\/a> within hours of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The international community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1068031.html\" target=\"_blank\">pledges<\/a> $5.2 billion for the reconstruction of Gaza, with the U.S.  pledging $900 million. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is adamant that none of this money will go to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A report by the Israeli group Peace Now says that Israel is planning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1068033.html\">73,300 new homes<\/a> in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">British Prime Minister Gordon Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/gordon-brown\/4903819\/Gordon-Brown-heads-to-Washington-to-visit-Barack-Obama.html\">travels to Washington<\/a> to persuade President Obama of the importance of a coordinated response to the global recession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rivals in Guinea Bissau &#8212; its president and army chief &#8212; are both assassinated within hours of each other. The international community pledges $5.2 billion for the reconstruction of Gaza, with the U.S. pledging $900 million. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is adamant that none of this money will go to Hamas. A report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9892],"tags":[4297,4296,319,4299,4298],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wa-blog","tag-gordon-brown","tag-guinea-bissau","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-peace-now","tag-prisdent-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Links: Guinea Bissau President Assassinated; British PM Visits Washington | Wide Angle | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links-guinea-bissau-president-assassinated-british-pm-visits-washington\/4280\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Links: Guinea Bissau President Assassinated; British PM Visits Washington | Wide Angle | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two rivals in Guinea Bissau &#8212; its president and army chief &#8212; are both assassinated within hours of each other. 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