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Jeff Glor talks to author Jay Bahadur about “The Pirates of Somalia,” an account of his harrowing trip into the pirate havens of Africa. Bahadur spent months trying to infiltrate the ranks of these daring, often vicious criminals. This is what he saw. Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Jay Bahadur: The terrifying spectre of the agonizingly dull life that awaited me if I didn’t do something with myself. At the time (late 2008), I was working out of my parents’ house on a contract basis for a Chicago-based market research firm and trying semi-desperately to break into journalism. Every established journalist I spoke to advised me to skip journalism school and make my bones by writing freelance in crazy places. Somalia was a great candidate, and when piracy exploded in September 2008 I quit my job and bought a ticket. I was immediately shocked by how few Western journalists were in the country; during my first six-week trip, the only other foreigners I encountered were a team of Australian cameramen on my final day in Somalia. The one advantage I had over seasoned reporters is that I wasn’t constrained by the insurance costs and tight deadlines that come with working for a major news agency; as a result, 릴 게임 I was able to spend three months in the fray, and gain a perspective on...

(CBS/AP) BAGHDAD – Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to a new U.N.-brokered peace plan focusing on containing the most violent areas of the country, then expanding to the entire nation, international envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday. At a news conference in Iran, Annan said the plan still must be presented to the opposition. But he said Assad suggested trying to calm specific areas a day earlier during talks in the Syrian capital aimed at ending the violence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011. “(Assad) made a suggestion of building an approach from the ground up in some of the districts where we have extreme violence — to try and contain the violence in those districts and, step by step, build up and end the violence across the country,” Annan told reporters in Iran, his first step on a tour of Syria’s staunchest allies. Annan: Iran must be “part of the solution” to Syria crisisFor Syria rebels, Assad draws line in the sandKofi Annan holds talks with Syria’s Assad More in After the Arab Spring Annan later visited Iraq and met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to end the 16 months of bloodshed. The conflict in Syria has defied every international attempt to bring peace, including an earlier effort by Annan, and there was no sign that the plan the U.N.-Arab...

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(AP) CAIRO – Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament opened a new front in the country’s leadership showdowns Tuesday by meeting in defiance of orders that disbanded the chamber and brought President Mohammed Morsi in conflict with both the powerful military and the highest court. The session was brief — lasting just five minutes — and suggested that lawmakers sought more of a symbolic stance rather than a full-scale backlash against rulings that invalidated the chamber over apparent irregularities in Egypt’s first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak 17 months ago. But it further nudged Egypt deeper into a potential power struggle between Morsi and military chiefs, who have vowed to uphold a ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court that led to parliament being dissolved last month. Morsi countered with his own decree ordering the 508-seat chamber to reconvene. The constitutional court fired back Tuesday, 서천콜걸 ruling that Morsi’s decision had no legal grounding. More in After the Arab Spring Mohammed Morsi sworn in as Egypt’s presidentDefying military, Egypt’s Morsi takes symbolic oathEgypt’s presidential election doesn’t end fight with militaryKey events in Egypt’s uprising and transition For the moment, all sides appear to be moving with some caution in acknowledgment of Egypt’s volatile backdrop: The military with the power to clamp down on dissent but without widespread support on the streets where Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood is strong. Security forces made no...