10 things you need to know today: September 16, 2012

The U.S. pulls embassy staff from Tunisia and Sudan, Bibi demands tougher action on Iran, and more in our roundup of stories that are making news and driving opinion

Sudanese demonstrators head toward the German and U.S. embassies in Khartoum on Friday: The U.S. has ordered non-essential embassy staff to leave Sudan in the wake of violent protests.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

1. U.S. PULLS EMBASSY STAFF FROM TUNISIA, SUDAN

The U.S. State Department is ordering non-essential staff to leave American embassies in Tunisia and Sudan amid heightened concerns over growing anti-American violence. The American embassies in Tunis, Tunisia, and Khartoum, Sudan, were attacked on Friday by demonstrators furious over a provocative and amateurish anti-Islam video made by a filmmaker in the United States. During the siege in Tunis, four people were killed and 46 were injured. In Khartoum, 5,000 protesters stormed the German and British embassies in addition to breaking into the U.S. property. At least two people were killed in the Sudan rioting. [Reuters]

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