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H1 Sunday Telegraph US Pentagon doubts Israeli intelligence over Iran's nuclear programme Pentagon chiefs fear that Israeli plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear programme will fail to destroy the facilities because neither the CIA nor Mossad knows where every base is located

Daily Telegraph Iran has 'resumed' A-bomb project Civilian companies being used as a front, say experts.

Washington Post Iran's Leaders Divided on U.S. Recent Contradictory Remarks Illustrate Debate Over Relations

Bloc-Buster Idea: Make It The G-3 By Jim Hoagland

Obama: Strength Out of Weakness By David Ignatius

Ha’aretz – Gideon Levy: Israel prefers bombing Iran to peace with Arab world The dread of the implications of an attack on Iran may be exaggerated. We might succeed again. And what if we do not? But then again, what if we do?

New York Times For Some Foes the Chat, Some the Cold Shoulder The U.S. didn’t talk to Castro. But it did talk to Mao, and that is the path most taken.

EditorialWhere Do We Go From Here? With the Iraq and Afghanistan wars under way, the transition from President Bush to his successor will be riskier than any in recent memory

Iraqi Parties, After Meetings in Finland, Agree on Principles to Guide Further Talks

Iran Says Its Nuclear Policy Has Not Changed

SWJ The Syria Card

Christian Science Monitor Iraqi Shiite Party rises as Sadr falls

The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq aims to capitalize on the disarray within Moqtada al-Sadr's movement ahead of parliamentary elections planned for October

Financial Times Iran must grasp the world’s offer But Israel must also recognise the folly of any attack on the country’s nuclear facilities. It could drag the US into a regional war and polarise the region for decades

Britain must act to prevent an attack on Iran From the moment that munitions fall on Iran, all western hopes of stabilising Afghanistan will be lost, writes Anatol Lieven

Hopes rise for progress on Tehran talks Iran’s top security negotiator will this month meet the EU’s foreign policy chief, amid continuing hopes that Tehran will soon begin formal talks on its nuclear programme

FT REPORT - G8 SUMMIT REPORT 2008

Obama repositions Some reversion to the centre was inevitable after the primaries. Case by case, Obama can explain the changes. Still, his new centrism carries risks

Recession is not the worst possible outcome We might want to question whether the recipes that got us into the current financial mess are also most suited to get us out again, says Wolfgang Münchau

America’s human capital is tested

The educational quality of US workers is in decline. If the country is unable to mend its school system, and unwilling to open its doors wider to skilled immigrants, then the current gloom about its longer-term economic prospects may be justified, writes Clive Crook

Power shift in Latin AmericaThe influence of Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe is rising just as that of his Venezuelan counterpart begins to wane

Gulf states urged to rethink dollar pegs Abu Dhabi has reignited speculation that the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s main holders of dollar-denominated assets, might break its peg to the US dollar

Sunday Times Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda US and Iraqi forces have driven the group out of the north of the country in a spectacular victory in the war on terror

Al-Qaeda is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand

AP Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing

Next Stop for Oil Prices: $100 or $150? Source: Energy Information Administration PowerPoint slides (1 MB)

Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan (PDF; 1 MB)
Source: U.S. Department of Defense

Human Rights, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (PDF; 1.9 MB) Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

ST Israel tests anti-rocket system

Israel has carried out a successful test of its "Iron Dome" anti-missile defence system intended to combat crude rockets of the kind launched from Gaza and south Lebanon.

Time for Iran to Face More Sanctions - Peter Zimmerman, Boston Globe

Guardian It may seem ineffective, but we need G8 in order to face the daunting future

Max Hastings: Common action against shared perils like poverty and climate change may not be forthcoming. Still, it is our best hope

A G8 removed from the real world Climate, oil and food crisis - it's no longer business as usual for world's leaders

Washington Post Obama's Iraq Dilemma By E. J. Dionne Jr., He needs to be adjust his views when the situation warrants, but he can't appear to waffle

The India Nuclear Pact Lives On

By Bill Emmott, The deal is that rare thing: a Bush foreign policy move that could look strategically smart to future historians.

H 2 The Observer Turkish coup plot awakens fear of violent nationalism Evidence of conspiracy to overthrow pro-Western Islamist government lays bare resentment of country's secular elite

Turkey crisis: Hopes of democracy are hanging in the balance Maureen Freely: Many of those who would like to see Turkey become a real democracy are veterans of its political prisons

The Observer: Ergenekon Türk siyasetinde son travma

Alman Müsteşar: Türkiye'de gizli İslamlaşma tehlikesi var

Talabani: PKK Kuzey Irak'ı terk etsin

Abant Platformu, 'Kürt Sorunu: Barışı ve Geleceği Birlikte Aramak' toplantısı sonuç değerlendirmesi

Nuh Yılmaz Obama’nın rüya takımı ve Ortadoğu vizyonu

A Possible Deal on Kirkuk?

Alman Basınından 'Sistem Çatışması' Yorumu

Talat: Neredeyse anlaştık

Ankara, KKTC�ye �daha fazla para yok� diyor

2 Ex-Generals Arrested in Alleged Turkey Coup Plot

Turkey Arrests Retired Generals In Coup Probe

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Washington Post INSTITUTE OF TURKISH STUDIES Board Members Resign to Protest Chair's Ousting Leader in Georgetown-Based Agency Encouraged Scholars to Research Mass Killing of Armenians

BBC Two arrests in Turkey 'coup plot'

Trial of strength Q&A: The case against Turkey's ruling party

PKK'nın suikast timine darbe

Al-Jazeera TV Programme Discusses Turkish-Mediated Israel-Syria Peace Talks

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