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Beef & Rice Soup
Ok, this photo isn’t exactly something I’ll send to Tastespotting, but the soup was good and I think it’s well worth trying even though it wasn’t photogenic. I’ve been wanting to try a soup with ground meat and rice ever since I had a fantastic one at a little tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant. That one had lamb, lentils, spinach, rice… and well, I had no idea how to make something similar. I still really don’t, but when I saw this soup in Jaden’s Steamy Kitchen cookbook, I knew I had to try it. And now at least I have a base to work with – it’s definitely not very similar, but it’s tasty, filling and satisfying when it’s cold outside!
Think of this as a base, to which you can add a lot more flavors.
Beef & Rice Soup
(printable recipe)
Serves 2-3
250 g ground beef
2 tsp dry sherry
2 tsp dark soy sauce
black pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp cooking oil
1 litre water
50 g rice, uncooked
1 carrot, thinly sliced
handful of cherry tomatoes, halved
100 ml green peas (frozen and thawed)
salt
Heat the oil in a pot. Mix the beef, sherry, soy sauce, black pepper and sugar. Fry on medium heat for a few minutes while stirring to break up any clumps of meat. Add water, rice, carrots and tomatoes and boil for abut 25 minutes, or until the rice is fully cooked. Add the peas, and season with salt.
Recipe in Swedish:
Köttfärssoppa med ris
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US in Mid-East push, amid homes row
US Vice-President Joe Biden has arrived in Israel to promote a new round of Middle East peace talks more than a year after they stalled.
Mr Biden – the highest-ranking Obama administration official to visit the region – will meet both Palestinian and Israeli officials.
Iran’s nuclear intentions are expected to be at the top of Israel’s agenda.
Hours before Mr Biden landed, Israel enraged Palestinians by approving new homes for the occupied West Bank.
Mr Biden will try to reassure Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that plans for tougher sanctions against Iran are serious, says the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen.
ANALYSISJeremy Bowen
BBC Middle East editor
The US vice-president’s visit comes at a time of general foreboding in the region, and of pessimism about the chances for new peace talks.
It’s a sign of how bad things are that indirect proximity talks are being presented as an achievement.
Sixteen years of direct peace talks failed. There have been none at all for more than a year.
Proximity talks were last suggested in the time of Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s.
A breakthrough would surprise all sides. There are fears of more violence if the current political vacuum continues.
The US does not want Israel to take military action against Iran, which is much talked about here, our correspondent reports from Jerusalem.
Mr Biden is due to hold talks with Mr Netanyahu, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres on Tuesday.
He then moves on to meetings with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank on Wednesday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to meet Mr Netanyahu because of Israel’s refusal to put a complete stop to building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
But after US pressure, President Abbas agreed on Monday to four months of indirect, so-called "proximity talks".
The discussions would mark the first time the Palestinians and Israelis have come together in any form for more than a year.
Mr Netanyahu said on Monday: "Our security is to prevent… missiles, rockets, terror and these are things that I intend to insist upon in order to get an arrangement that will last generations, this is achievable."
‘More provocations’
The delegations were expected to meet separately with the US Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, who was to shuttle between them.
The announcement, however, came just hours after Israel infuriated Palestinians by approving the construction of 112 new apartments in the Beitar Illit settlement in the West Bank.
Israel has promised a 10-month pause in settlement building in the West Bank, though not in East Jerusalem.
But it says the Beitar Illit apartments were an "exception", approved before the moratorium was announced.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the move put the talks at risk.
"We cannot tolerate that each time we have discussions on peace-making the Israeli government tenders more settlements, more incursions, more provocations," he said, reports AFP news agency.
A US state department spokesman said the development did not breach the building moratorium, but was "the kind of thing both sides need to be cautious of".
All settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.</p
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Indonesia militant ‘dies in raid’
Indonesian security forces say they have killed a suspected militant during a shoot-out on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta.
The raid was thought to be linked to an ongoing operation against militants in Aceh province that has brought a number of arrests.
Unconfirmed reports say the man killed may have been Dulmatin, a senior member of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group.
He is wanted over the Bali bomb attacks in 2002 that killed 202 people.
‘Big name’
The shoot-out took place at a two-storey building in Pamulang city west of the capital, local media reported.
They said two people had been arrested in the raid.
Anti-terror police chief Tito Karnavian told media the dead man was a "big name". Police are due to hold a news conference later on Tuesday.
Dulmatin has been one of the most-wanted Indonesian militant figures. The US has offered a $10m reward for information leading to his death or arrest.
He is believed to have set off one of the two bombs in Bali on 12 October 2002. A total of 202 people died in the attacks, many of them foreign tourists.
Dulmatin had been thought to be hiding in the Philippines.
However, there is no official confirmation he was the man killed.
DNA tests were needed to prove beyond doubt that Indonesia’s then-most-wanted Islamist militant, Noordin Mohamed Top, had been killed in September 2009.
Police thought they had killed him in a previous raid only for forensic tests to prove them wrong.
Indonesian police have been engaged in an operation recently targeting Aceh militants.
A total of 14 people have been charged with plotting to launch terrorist attacks.
Those charged are believed by officials to be members of a previously unknown terror group.
But seizures in raids included DVDs on the Bali bombings.
Police have been investigating possible links between the militants and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which was blamed by the authorities for the Bali attacks.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Northrop pulls US air tanker bid
Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS have pulled out of bidding for a $35bn (£23bn) US Air Force air-to-air refuelling tanker contract.
The announcement most likely leaves the way clear for Boeing to win the deal.
It came as EADS said it made a net loss of 763m euros ($1bn; £692m) last year, against a profit of 1.57bn euros in 2008, and said 2010 may be "volatile".
In the three months to December, the Airbus parent company also said it had lost 1.05bn euros.
‘Weigh heavily’
The firm scrapped its dividend as it was hit by financial charges on its A380 superjumbo, adverse currency fluctuations, and cost overruns on its delayed A400M airlifter.
"The A380 continued to weigh heavily on the underlying performance," EADS said in a statement, adding that it had also suffered from exceptional foreign exchange effects.
Last year Airbus beat rival Boeing in aircraft production, delivering a record 498 aircraft.
Airbus said it hoped to deliver the same number of aircraft this year as last year, and to secure 250 to 300 new gross orders.
But it warned that it saw the economy this year as "improving but still volatile".
Regret
Meanwhile, explaining its move for pulling out of the US tanker deal, Northrop Grumman said the US Air Force’s contract proposal "favours" Boeing.
Northrop Grumman and EADS had won a contract for the deal in February 2008, but this was then cancelled following a Boeing appeal.
At the time, there was substantial political opposition in Washington to the involvement of EADS, which owns Airbus, the big European rival of US-based Boeing.
Meanwhile, Boeing had been awarded the contract in 2003, only for it to be cancelled after an ethics scandal that saw a US Air Force official convicted of criminal conspiracy.
The Pentagon said it regretted Northrop’s decision.
The US Air Force is seeking to replace its ageing fleet of 1950s-built air tankers.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Arrests in India tiger cubs death
Two villagers have been arrested for allegedly killing two tiger cubs at the Ranthambhore national park in the north-west Indian state of Rajasthan.
Wildlife officials said the men poisoned the cubs in revenge for poaching their cattle.
The carcasses of the cubs were found in the park on Sunday.
Poaching and loss of habitat in India have decimated tiger numbers which are estimated to have fallen from 40,000 to about 1,400 in the past 100 years.
A major awareness campaign has been launched to halt the steep decline in tiger numbers in India.
‘Poisoned goat’
"These villagers poisoned the cubs to take revenge as the animals had poached their cattle," said Mr RS Shekhawat, deputy field director of Ranthambore tiger reserve.
Forest officials said the villagers fed pesticide to a goat. The cubs killed the goat and were poisoned when they ate its meat.
Ranthambore covers several hundred square kilometres of dry deciduous forests sprawling over undulating terrain.
According to a 2009 census, there were about 40 tigers in and around the park, which is in Sawaimadhopur district of Rajasthan.
Nearly 100 villages surround the park, and the more the tiger population grows the more they are likely to come into conflict with humans, observers say.
Ranthambhore is a major tourist attraction, drawing about 200,000 people from India and abroad every year.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Greece asks US for its assistance
The Greek prime minister has called on the US to help crack down on the financial speculators he blames for exacerbating his country’s debt woes.
George Papandreou said he wanted to see the US impose stricter regulations on hedge funds and currency traders.
The comments of the Greek prime minister came before he is due to meet US President Obama later on Tuesday.
Greece is continuing to pass austerity measures as it seeks to reduce its substantial budget deficit.
Its deficit currently stands at 12.7%, more than four times higher than the 3% limit set for the 16 European nations that share the euro.
"Unprincipled speculators are making billions every day by betting on a Greek default," said Mr Papandreou, who met US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in Washington on Monday.
"That is why Europe and America must say ‘enough is enough’ to those speculators who only place value on immediate returns, with utter disregard for the consequences on the larger economic system – not to mention the human consequences of lost jobs, foreclosed homes, and decimated pensions," he added.
Ms Clinton said the US wanted to work with other nations to reform the "unregulated financial market that globally moves money at the speed of sound, if not light, and leaves in its wake all kinds of consequences that governments have to contend with".
Greece is seeking assistance from fellow European Union nations to make it cheaper for it to borrow funds on the international financial markets.
Concerns about its giant debts currently make it more expensive for Greece to borrow money compared to most other European nations.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Pakistan drone raid ‘kills three’
Missiles fired by a suspected US drone aircraft have killed at least three militants in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
The attack targeted a residential building inside the compound of a veterinary hospital in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
The identities of the militants killed in the attack are not yet known.
North and South Waziristan are known sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and are often hit by drones.
There have been more than a dozen such strikes this year alone.
Locals say the attacks have destroyed many training camps and compounds. They have also killed dozens of local and foreign militants, officials say.
Security officials told the BBC Urdu Service that three missiles were fired at the building on Sunday.
The dead and six others who were injured in the attack were local militants affiliated to a group led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, officials said.
The compound of the hospital includes several residential houses for employees, but most of them have left after the area was taken over by the Taliban.
The buildings are now being used by the Taliban, residents say.
The United States has stepped up drone attacks in the region since seven CIA officers died in a suicide bomb attack at a US base across the border in Afghanistan last December.
More than 700 people have died in nearly 80 drone strikes since August 2008.
A surge in such strikes has been ordered by US President Barack Obama.
Pakistan has publicly criticised drone attacks, saying they fuel support for militants, but observers say the authorities privately condone the strikes.
The American military does not routinely confirm drone operations, but analysts say the US is the only force capable of deploying such aircraft in the region.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.