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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN

After a second day on the picket lines, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says the two sides are “still miles apart.” Here’s CNN .

“The walkout is over job security issues the union wants to give laid off teachers preferential treatment for future job openings. It also rejects Rahm Emanuel’s plan to evaluate teachers by using standardised test scores...”

After U.S. and UK leaders have made public  and private pleas with Israel not to unilaterally strike Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu is making waves with a comments Tuesday.

VIA SKY NEWS : “Benjamin Netanyahu tonight has given a speech in which he attacked the US government. Not by name, but saying, stop telling us to wait and wait. We do not have time to wait."

The brother of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri sat down for an exclusive interview with CNN and says he has a plan to mediate a peace deal between the West and Islamists. WOIO explains .

“His proposal offers a ten-year truce if the US and West stop intervening on Muslim land and education and released all islamist prisoners. in return they would stop attacking western interests...”

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is acknowledging “missteps” since the company went public in May. He called the social networking giant’s performance “obviously … disappointing.” Via BBC :

“He says this is not like the first to challenge the company has had. He was speaking at a conference in San Francisco. He said the company will make more money from mobile than from desktop...”