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6A Daily News – Friday, May 20, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Strauss-Kahn granted bail NEW YORK (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to free former Internation- al Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition that he post $1 million in bail and remain under house arrest, under the watch of armed guards, at a private apartment in Manhattan. The 62-year-old banker and diplomat wore an expression of relief after Supreme Court Jus- tice Michael J. Obus announced his decision in a packed Manhattan courtroom. Later, he blew a kiss toward his wife. The ruling didn’t free Strauss-Kahn immediate- ly. Authorities need time to review and approve the security arrangements involved in his home detention, which lawyers said would be at an apart- ment rented by his wife. They did not disclose the location of the home. Strauss-Kahn will also have to take out a $5 mil- lion insurance bond. It’s not believed the wealthy banker will have any problem meeting the financial conditions of his release from the bleak Rikers Island jail complex on an island in the East River. ‘‘He’s going back to Rikers tonight and we expect him to be released tomorrow,’’ said William Taylor, one of his attor- neys. Obama endorses key Palestinian demand WASHINGTON (AP) — Forcefully stepping into an explosive Middle East debate, President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peace- ful nation based on ‘‘permanent occupa- tion.’’ Obama’s urging that a Palestinian state be based on 1967 borders — before the Six Day War in which Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza — was a significant shift in the U.S. approach. It drew an immediate negative response from Israeli Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu, who is to meet with Obama at the White House Fri- day. In a statement released late Thursday in Jerusalem, Netanyahu called the 1967 lines ‘‘indefensible,’’ saying such a withdrawal would jeopardize Israel’s secu- rity and leave major West Bank settlements outside Israeli borders, though Obama left room for adjustments reached through negotiations. At the same time, it was not immediately clear whether Obama’s statement on the 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations — some- thing the Palestinians have long sought — would be sufficient to persuade the Palestini- ans to drop their push for U.N. recognition of their statehood. Obama rejected the Palestini- ans’ unilateral statehood bid Thursday as he sought to underscore U.S. support for Israel notwithstanding the endorsement of the 1967 borders. ‘‘Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the Unit- ed Nations in September won’t create an indepen- dent state,’’ Obama said.