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Daybreak: China, Russia Sanction-Stubborn

Plus Mac Miller hits the top of the charts, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
November 17, 2011
The Iranian (L) and Russian (R) ambassadors to the International Atomic Energy Agency are all smiles yesterday.(Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images)
The Iranian (L) and Russian (R) ambassadors to the International Atomic Energy Agency are all smiles yesterday.(Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images)

• China and Russia continue to resist further sanctions on Iran. [WSJ]

• In Iran, meanwhile, the Islamic Republic’s right to nuclear weapons is one of the few things that can by and large unite the country. [AP/WP]

• Israel allowed one of only a few imports of construction materials into Gaza for the rebuilding of several privately owned factories. [AP/NYT]

• Israel may feel it has more space to act alone against Iran during a U.S. presidential election year (like, say, the present one). [Reuters/Haaretz]

• The number one album in America—and the first independently produced debut album to go to number one since 1995—is by a Jewish 19-year-old rapper from Pittsburgh named Mac Miller. [NYT ArtsBeat]

• The Shoah Foundation is beginning to study genocides besides the Holocaust, starting with Rwanda and Cambodia. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.