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H1  Washington Post Opposition Seizes Most Of Beirut Hezbollah Supporters Criticized In Lebanon for Armed Clashes

 

Fighting in Beirut Threatens a Top Bush Administration Priority

 

War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think

 

GuardianHizbullah success leaves uncertainty  Lebanon's government is reeling after Hizbullah guerrillas seize control of Muslim west Beirut

 

Hizbullah's web  Leader

 

US Says Syria, Iran Behind Lebanon Violence

 

IHT  Nuclear Middle East: Tempting Targets By: Bennett Ramberg | International Herald Tribune Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, one of the world's oldest, has generated all the nuclear material military planners plausibly could use. Closure would set a nonproliferation standard for the Middle East - no more dedicated nuclear weapons reactors, a goal that would enhance Jerusalem's security

 

Europe reluctant to set up a security doctrineThe European Union is not ready for a serious discussion about why the bloc needs a security doctrine because it would mean dealing with the issue of power.

 

American Conservative Surging to Defeat By Andrew J. Bacevich
The Petraeus strategy buys time but not victory.

 

Robert Fisk Hizbollah rules west Beirut in Iran's proxy war with US

 

Yedioth Ahronoth Poll: US Jews prefer Clinton

 

Gallup survey predicts Democratic senator will get 66% of Jewish vote in race against McCain

 

Ron Ben-Yishai continues his analysis of what lays ahead for Israel in the next decade

Forecast for next decade/ Ben-Yishai Part 2: Ron Ben-Yishai says Palestinians won’t have a state, but Iran will possess nukes

 

Historian Norman Stone Ponders War, Peace As Victory Day Marked

 

Still Broken: A Recruit`s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures from Baghdad to the Pentagon

 

OIL RECORDS SMASHED: $126 BARREL...

 

Hints of a rift at OPEC about production...

 

New York Times Editorial Mr. Hu’s Peaceable Visit to Tokyo It will take a lot of effort for two competitors such as China and Japan to overcome their past. All in all, President Hu Jintao’s visit to Tokyo this week was a start.

 

Shiite Militias Seize Beirut Neighborhoods

 

News Analysis: Israel Readying for a Post-Olmert Era

 

Obama Leads in Superdelegates for First Time  Hillary Rodham Clinton’s trump card began slipping from her grasp, and her speeches took a more conciliatory tone.

 

The Times Leader Battle for BeirutYet again Lebanon is the cockpit for wider confrontations

 

Obama may stumble if House of Clinton falls Barack Obama is going to need the Clintons and their supporters on side if he harbours any hope of reaching the White House

 

Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas

 

Wall Street Journal Georgia in Jeopardy
Russia plays war games in the Caucasus.

 

The Obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
By Abdurrahman Wahid
And Abdul A'la
Too many people rationalize violence and stoke anti-Semitic emotions for political purposes

 

From National Journal, the Bush administration's campaign to spread democracy in the Arab and Islamic world is in danger of imploding — the next administration will have to pick up the pieces

 

A review of The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (and more and an excerpt).

 

Wheat Disease Threatens Supplies By: David R. Sands | The Washington Times A lethal variant on an ancient disease affecting wheat has spread from its base in Africa to Iran and now threatens vast fields in South Asia, the Middle East and Europe at a time of global food shortages, agricultural specialists warn

 

Time Playing the Iraq Oil Card

 

Tony Karon Israel is 60, Zionism is Dead, What Now?

H2 Brookings Sabanci Lecture  Righting the Course: The Future of the U.S.-Turkish Relationship   by Nicholas Burns Transcript

 

AK Parti'yi kapatma kararı askeri darbeden farksız olur

 

Turkish Military Says It Killed 20 PKK Fighters

  

Military: 19 Kurdish rebels killed in southeast Turkey

 

 PKK Blasts Kill Civilian, Hurt Guards In SE Turkey

 

Report: Land mine kills 3 in Turkey

 

IMF approves 3.65 billion dollar loan to Turkey

 

Son Gözden Geçirme Tamam

 

Iran-Turkey trade projected to hit $20b by 2011

 

YAVUZ BAYDAR Washington'da endişe var

 

Güngör Uras 2008 Sakıp Sabancı Konferansı

 

Wilson: ABD’nin PJAK ile hiçbir ilişkisi yoktur

 

FT EBRD looks at expansion to TurkeyThe development institution is to start evaluating a Turkish bid for access to its funds in a move that would see it operate outside the former communist countries

 

BBC Turkish strikes 'kill 19 rebels' Turkey's military says its has killed at least 19 Kurdish rebels in air strike in the south-east of the country.

Sympathy for rebels in N Iraq

Coded support for PKK

Profile: The PKK

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring Inter-national

 

Iraqi Kurdish KDP Parliamentary Bloc Head Interviewed

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

 

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

 

French PM says Paris is against Turkey's full EU membership

 

 Turkey presses the EU to set a target date for full membership Hürriyet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

 

H3 TSK Basın Açıklaması / 29

 

Basın Açıklaması / 30

 

O sürpriz Bayık

 

Hakkari'de jandarma karakoluna saldırı

 

Kandil'de PKK'ya ağır darbe

 

''Türkiye'de güç halka kayıyor, herkes buna alışacak''

 

"Reform taslağının önce Rehn'e sunulması şaşırtıcı"

Milliyet Son Dakika

 

Taha Akyol Kürt meselesi nereye?

 

Fikret Bila ABD, Gülen’in ne yanında ne karşısında

 

Hasan Cemal Washington’da kapatma davasına karşı olumsuz hava sürüyor!

 

Semih İdiz Önemli bir döneme giriyoruz

 

Cengiz Çandar

 

Ahmet TaşgetirenKapatmacıların yarınki utancı

 

Ruşen - Çakır

 

Murat Yetkin

 

İsmet Berkan

 

Fehmi Koru Org. Büyükanıt 'Yanlış' dedi, ama...

 

Taha Kıvanç Bir telefon yeter

 

Şamil Tayyar

 

Ali Bayramoğlu İşin özü...

 

Yasemin Çongar

 

Ertuğrul Özkök Ortalama laik Türk

 

Kürşat Bumin: Ak Parti'ye 'vurma'nın zamanı değil

 

Ahmet Hakan

 

M Ali Birand GS’lıların şampiyonluk günü…

 

Cüneyt Ülsever

 

Enis Berberoğlu Gül: Barzani ile güven oluşuyor

 

Fırat’la ortaklık geçen yıl bitti uyuşturucu ihracatçının kaderi’

 

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Kapatma davasının faydası!

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

ŞAHİN ALPAY - 'Mahalle baskısı'na ne yapmalı?

 

Oktay Ekşi

 

Özdemir İnce

 

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

 

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK Lütfen susun!

 

ENGİN ARDIÇ

 

ERGUN BABAHAN

 

EMRE AKÖZ Yabancı dil bilmeyen yargıç kalmamalı!

 

Umur Talu

 

The AK Party’s apology by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

 

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

 

NAZLI ILICAK Kutuplaşma nereden doğuyor?

 

MEHMET BARLAS ABD de AB gibi Türkiye ile sivil ilişkiler kurmalı artık

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

 

YAVUZ DONAT Avrupa gününü kutla(ma)dık

 

Ömer Lütfi Mete Aa, kâhin Rubin kapatmayı bilmiş!

 

MHP 301’i Anayasa Mahkemesi’ne götürmek için CHP’den yardım istedi

 

 

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

 

Ercan Kumcu

 

Erdal Sağlam

 

 

IMF approves 3.65 billion dollar loan to Turkey

 

Turkey's Akbank Q1 net profit 720 million lira

 

Yaman Törüner Ekonomi yönetimi ne kadar başarılı?

 

H4 New York Times Editorial Mr. Hu’s Peaceable Visit to Tokyo It will take a lot of effort for two competitors such as China and Japan to overcome their past. All in all, President Hu Jintao’s visit to Tokyo this week was a start.

 

Shiite Militias Seize Beirut Neighborhoods

 

News Analysis: Israel Readying for a Post-Olmert Era

 

Obama Leads in Superdelegates for First Time  Hillary Rodham Clinton’s trump card began slipping from her grasp, and her speeches took a more conciliatory tone.

 

World Briefs | Middle East: Gaza: Attacks Kill an Israeli and 5 Palestinians

 

Political Foe of Musharraf Is Released in Pakistan

 

Troops Kill 25 Militants in Iraqi Slum, U.S. Says

 

Russia Parades Military Might

 

Edwards Endorses Obama, or Does He?

 

Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit  Cities with long-established public transit systems and areas with a strong driving culture are both reporting increases in ridership of buses and trains.

 

Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback  Blackwater Worldwide, the security company involved in 17 Iraqis’ deaths, still has a contract to guard diplomats.

 

Paris on the Anniversary of the 1968 Protests By SERGE SCHMEMANN Not surprisingly, May ’68 and Nicolas Sarkozy’s first year as president of France are being treated quite differently

 

BOB HERBERT Seeds of Destruction The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves for deliberately trying to wreck the presidential prospects of their party’s likely nominee.

 

No News Is Bad News  By ROBY ALAMPAY Until free and reliable news and information becomes available in Myanmar, the Burmese will continue to suffer horrors that are literally untold.

 

Death Comes Ashore By AMITAV GHOSHA nation need not be wealthy or technologically advanced to be well prepared for natural disasters.

 

 

H5 Washington Post Opposition Seizes Most Of Beirut Hezbollah Supporters Criticized In Lebanon for Armed Clashes

 

Fighting in Beirut Threatens a Top Bush Administration Priority

 

Obama Now Focusing Mostly on McCain

 

China's Harmonious Diplomatic Symphony John Pomfret | Its propaganda machine might sound shrill, but China's foreign policy has been hitting all the right notes.

 

Frustration and Deceit on U.S.-Iraqi Patrol in Mosul

 

Editorial Needed Testimony David Addington could shed light on the Bush administration's wartime legal policies.

 

Man Held is Not Leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq

 

Olmert: Iran Never Stopped Its Military Nuclear Program

 

The Myth of Occupied Gaza

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey To concede that Israel 'occupies' Gaza is to buy into Hamas propaganda.

 

Soviet-Style Display of Might Fills Red Square At WWII Victory Day Parade, Medvedev Uses Putin Ploy To Imply Criticism of U.S.

 

On Visit to Japan, China's Hu Has No Time for Old Grudges

 

Army's Chief Liaison to Pakistan Is Pulled From Assignment

 

Fight On, Hillary By Ellen R. Malcolm, She has a responsibility to play this game to the end, and I'll cheer her on till the game is over

 

Black Community Is Increasingly Protective of Obama

 

Editorial Burma's Blockade

The ruling junta denies lifesaving aid to its own people

 

 

H6 GuardianHizbullah success leaves uncertainty