France and the US have dismissed a finding by the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohammed ElBaradei that there is no evidence of Iran building a bomb.
Friday, November 2, 2007
IAEA findings on Iran dismissed
France and the US have dismissed a finding by the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohammed ElBaradei that there is no evidence of Iran building a bomb.
Russia raps Saudi atomic fuel proposal for Iran: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's nuclear chief on Friday said only full nuclear powers should create centers for enriching uranium, in a swipe at a Saudi proposal for Arab states to help supply Iran with enriched uranium.
World powers discuss Iran sanctions in London
By Sophie Walker
LONDON (Reuters) - Six world powers meet on Friday to discuss imposing a third round of sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to stop enriching uranium, which they suspect could be used to build nuclear weapons
Rice: Kurdish rebels are 'common threat'
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writers
35 minutes ago
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States, Turkey and Iraq will counter any attacks on Turkey by Kurdish rebels operating out of northern Iraq.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Gates: Iran assured Iraq on weapons
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
2 hours, 27 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Iran apparently has assured the Iraqi government that it will stop the flow into Iraq of bomb-making materials and other weaponry that U.S. officials say has inflamed insurgent violence and caused many American troop casualties, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
Obama Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Iran Diplomacy
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JEFF ZELENY
Published: November 2, 2007
CHICAGO, Oct. 31 — Senator Barack Obama said he would “engage in aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek “regime change” if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.
Published: November 2, 2007
CHICAGO, Oct. 31 — Senator Barack Obama said he would “engage in aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek “regime change” if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.
Obama introduces Iran measure
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
37 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama is offering a Senate resolution that says President Bush does not have authority to use military force against Iran, the latest move in a debate with presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton about how to respond to that country's nuclear ambitions.
After Turkish soldiers are killed, tensions rise on border with Iraq's Kurdish region
A day after 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in an ambush by alleged Kurdish guerrillas near the border with Iraq's Kurdish region, the Turkish government rushed troops to the border area and the government in Ankara came under intense pressure to move forces into the Kurdish portion of Iraq.
The Associated Press reports that many Turks believe the semiautonomous Kurdish government in Iraq is providing safe-haven to a Kurdish movement violently seeking independence from Turkey.
The Associated Press reports that many Turks believe the semiautonomous Kurdish government in Iraq is providing safe-haven to a Kurdish movement violently seeking independence from Turkey.
Why Turks no longer love the U.S.
US Secretary Rice arrives Friday to defuse tensions over Kurdish rebels in Iraq.By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the November 1, 2007 edition
from the November 1, 2007 edition
'Genocide' talk tests Israel-Turkey ties
Jewish support for Congress to call an Armenian massacre 'genocide' has strained relations between the longtime allies.
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS TABLED
A draft US congressional resolution that would have recognized the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman-era Turkey as genocide has been tabled after the White House, the US military and the Turkish government convinced many original supporters of the measure that its adoption would irreparably damage US-Turkish relations.
Democrats, Republicans Spar Over Turkey Genocide Resolution
Democrats and Republicans are trading criticisms over a resolution calling the mass killings in the early 20th century of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a genocide. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, while Democratic leaders say they still intend to bring the measure to a vote in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, they acknowledge that reaction in Turkey to a recent House committee vote approving the measure has had an impact on lawmakers
Poll: US single biggest threat to Turks’ security
Meanwhile, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center put the US favorability rating in Turkey at 9 percent versus 52 percent in 2000. Turks now see the United States as the single biggest threat to their nation's security.
"The fact is that Secretary Rice is going into the jaws of a real credibility problem and is up against some real narrow parameters in terms of what she can do to overcome that credibility problem," Parris, now with the Brookings Institution, told Reuters.
"The fact is that Secretary Rice is going into the jaws of a real credibility problem and is up against some real narrow parameters in terms of what she can do to overcome that credibility problem," Parris, now with the Brookings Institution, told Reuters.
Commentary: Turkey
By Kevin Charles Pedrick
It was an odd, 180 degree turn of events, within the span of a week. There it was, the specter of Congress, appearing to be primed and postured to seek sanctions against Turkey, for alleged acts of genocide committed in 1915.
" Say what ? "
" Alleged acts of genocide. They committed genocide. "
" In what year ? "
" 1915. "
" You have to be kidding me. "
" No. Standard operating procedure. It's the new way government is done. Remember Tilden v. Hayes ? "
" But there was a World War taking place in 1915. "
" Yes. And ? "
" And isn't that a bit of cherry picking, not to mention, belated ? Who in God's name remembers 1915 besides that Nobel Prize winner who believes that African Americans are inferior based on his studies of DNA ? Ninetenn freaking fifteen ? "
" But genocide is genocide. Saddam committed genocide, and that's why Don had to liberate the Iraqis. "
" You mean Saddam committed genocide the last time Iraq was at war with Iran ? "
" Genocide is genocide is genocide no matter how you cut it, when it's committed. Genocide's wrong. "
" And so now that Bush has decided to support the Turks, less than a week after Congress appeared to support sanctions for some obscure historic atrocity, when the Kurds rise up and start a Civil War in Turkey and the Pentagon reacts by suppressing and killing them, and then burying them in mass graves, who will have committed genocide, V.I. Lenin ? "
It was an odd, 180 degree turn of events, within the span of a week. There it was, the specter of Congress, appearing to be primed and postured to seek sanctions against Turkey, for alleged acts of genocide committed in 1915.
" Say what ? "
" Alleged acts of genocide. They committed genocide. "
" In what year ? "
" 1915. "
" You have to be kidding me. "
" No. Standard operating procedure. It's the new way government is done. Remember Tilden v. Hayes ? "
" But there was a World War taking place in 1915. "
" Yes. And ? "
" And isn't that a bit of cherry picking, not to mention, belated ? Who in God's name remembers 1915 besides that Nobel Prize winner who believes that African Americans are inferior based on his studies of DNA ? Ninetenn freaking fifteen ? "
" But genocide is genocide. Saddam committed genocide, and that's why Don had to liberate the Iraqis. "
" You mean Saddam committed genocide the last time Iraq was at war with Iran ? "
" Genocide is genocide is genocide no matter how you cut it, when it's committed. Genocide's wrong. "
" And so now that Bush has decided to support the Turks, less than a week after Congress appeared to support sanctions for some obscure historic atrocity, when the Kurds rise up and start a Civil War in Turkey and the Pentagon reacts by suppressing and killing them, and then burying them in mass graves, who will have committed genocide, V.I. Lenin ? "
Helicopters, troops pound PKK targets inside Turkey
Troops backed by the air force have killed several Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists near the eastern province of Tunceli, and suspected PKK targets were bombed by Cobra helicopters in a separate operation on the mountainous Turkish-Iraqi border in southeastern Anatolia, news reports from the region said yesterday.
Hillary la Française, Cherchez la Femme?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON
Cécilia Sarkozy acts so American, while Hillary Clinton acts so French
Published: October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON
Cécilia Sarkozy acts so American, while Hillary Clinton acts so French
World Briefing | Middle East
Lebanon: Claim Hezbollah Has Rearmed
By WARREN HOGE
Published: November 1, 2007
In a report to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed “great concern” over information supplied him by Israel that Hezbollah had rearmed to a level higher than before the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon
By WARREN HOGE
Published: November 1, 2007
In a report to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed “great concern” over information supplied him by Israel that Hezbollah had rearmed to a level higher than before the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon
Iraq Asks for Iran’s Help in Calming Kurdish Crisis
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: November 1, 2007
BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Iraqi officials asked for Iran’s help on Wednesday in negotiating a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage raids on Turkish troops across the border.
Published: November 1, 2007
BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Iraqi officials asked for Iran’s help on Wednesday in negotiating a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage raids on Turkish troops across the border.
Japan orders navy ships home from Afghan mission
By Linda Sieg
Thu Nov 1, 8:35 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ordered its naval ships on Thursday to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.
Thu Nov 1, 8:35 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ordered its naval ships on Thursday to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.
Iranian FM expected in Turkey for talks on Kurdish rebels
ANKARA (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will hold talks in Ankara Friday with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan on mounting tensions with Iraq over separatist Kurdish rebels, an Iranian diplomat told AFP.
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