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H1 Washington Post Iraq Points to Pullout by 2010 Senior Official Is Second in Recent Days to Back Timetable Similar to Obama's

 

ANALYSIS Obama Makes War Gains Maliki's Embrace of Withdrawal Timeline Confounds McCain By Dan Balz

 

Bosnian Serb Captured; Sought for War Crimes Radovan Karadzic Hid for a Decade

 

Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba Move Would Be Response to U.S. Missile Defense System, Newspaper Izvestia Says  

 

Financial Times  Back Obama for commander-in-chief While Washington’s armchair generals will denounce the Democratic candidate for weakness on Iran, the real generals support his position. The US top brass has no appetite for launching yet another war in the Middle East. Bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the last thing the US military needs is a third front, writes Gideon Rachman

 

Obama to widen focus beyond Europe Barack Obama is ready to revive the transatlantic relationship, but he expects Europe to pull its weight on Afghanistan and he would deepen Washington’s engagement with other regions

 

Daily Star  The end of the globalization consensus is upon us
By Dani Rodrik

 

News Analysis: A New Openness to Talks With That ‘Axis of Evil’

 

Guardian Bush blinks first as oil price dazzles Dilip Hiro: What explains Washington's sudden softening attitude on Iran? Could it possibly be the economy?

 

No U-turn. Obama's stance on Iraq is chillingly consistent Sami Ramadani: The presidential hopeful has been accused of flip-flopping over the occupation, but he was never for full withdrawal

 

Iraqi government backs Obama timetable  Nouri al-Maliki endorses democratic candidate's proposal to pull out all forces by April 2010

 

Out of Iraq, into the White House? Michael Tomasky: The Iraqi prime minister's support of Barack Obama's troop exit plan is the biggest story of the election campaign so far

 

Los Angeles Times Easy-to-find oil: Has peak been reached? Behind today's oil mania lies a deeper dread: that the world has found all the easy-to-reach oil

 

A presidential primer on the Middle East conflict Regardless of who wins, McCain and Obama face a tough situation in trying to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians

 

NYT DAVID BROOKS The Culture of Debt America once had a culture of thrift. But over the past decades, that unspoken code has been silently eroded

 

Help the Palestinians Help Us

By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN Unless there are effective Palestinian security forces, Israel will never trust in a Palestinian state or be able to act on the quiet progress being made toward reaching a final settlement

 

MESH Summer reading 2008

 

Ha’aretz U.S. official preparing scathing report on Israel's West Bank policies  Sources say U.S. coordinator James Jones' report would be 'very harsh, and make Israel look very bad.' 

 

Christian Science Monitor

 Obama and McCain diverge on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Obama likely to return US to role of 'honest broker.' McCain sees fighting Islamic extremists as paramount

 

IHT SUNNI-SHIITE RELATIONS

Mending a Muslim divide

By REZA ZIA-EBRAHIMI

Saudi Arabia is in a unique position to soothe the tensions between Sunni and Shiite Islam.

 

AMERICA'S IMAGE

How to electrify the world

By STANLEY A. WEISS

Nearly 100 opinion leaders give their advice to the next U.S. president

 

Stirrings in the Suburbs By: Geoff Dyer | Financial Times
The biggest potential threat to China's Communist party the party comes from the educated urban middle class. Although there are daily protests by poor farmers who claim their land has been stolen or poisoned by a nearby factory, rural protests tend to be isolated and local police are often not afraid to crack heads, far away from probing eyes. A restive middle class in the country’s international cities is a different matter

 

FT Measures to avoid the recession

America should learn from its mistakes and act pragmatically to regulate markets as they exist in fact, not theory, write Felix Rohatyn and Everett Ehrlich

 

Changing tack in Afghanistan  The military must make clear that its presence is aimed at supporting Afghans in their efforts to develop a system of good government

 

Fed seems focused on inflation over growth This inflation bias comes in spite of the continuing troubles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, extreme volatility in bank stocks and the recent dip in the price of oil

 

Independence, then accountability,
for ECB
 
Sarkozy’s reform proposals may not be utterly in vain – by giving the bank something to disregard, his plan could strengthen its independence

 

A ‘menu Europe’ will prove more palatable Vivien Schmidt advocates graduated membership

 

 

Wall Street Journal Iran Has Earned Nothing
What has Tehran done to merit a détente with the United States?

 

Corrupt in Sofia
By Antoinette Primatarova
State of the Union:
Ordinary Bulgarians welcome EU help in the fight against graft

 

Daily Star Iran is still moving in millimeters while the US is going the full distance

 

Contrasting Goals in Iraq By: Lawrence J. Korb | The Boston Globe With Friday's announcement by the White House that the United States and Iraq have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for a US troop withdrawal, it is increasingly obvious that Iraqi political leaders are calling the shots when it comes to a future role for the United States, and that President Bush has not learned anything about Iraq in the last five years

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Daily Star Two court cases in Turkey and the republic's future  By Soli Ozel

 

TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER HOSTS HEADS OF MISSION CONFERENCE IN ANKARA

 

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

 

Kurds back U.S.-Iraq security deal

 

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Altan Tan'la ufuk turu

 

Lebanon to invest in Iraqi Kurdistan

 

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President, US Ambassador Discuss Kirkuk ...

 

Cevdet Aşkın Barzani'den siyasi çözüm ısrarı, PKK'dan rehine teslimat planı

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Guardian Forced gentrification plan spells end for old Roma Gypsy district in Istanbul 550-year-old community and Unesco battle city's blueprint for urban renewal

 

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Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

 

 

Cengiz Çandar Yüzde 47'den 'siyasi kriz'e; kim sorumlu

 

Ahmet Taşgetiren Ordu ve Ergenekon davası

 

Ruşen - Çakır

 

Taha Akyol CHP ve sol

 

Fikret Bila DTP’nin pazarlık politikası

 

Hasan Cemal Kriz zamanları toz olan tatlı su demokratları!

 

Murat Yetkin

 

İsmet Berkan

 

Fehmi Koru Duygu fırtınası

 

Taha Kıvanç Kışlalı suikastının izinde

 

Şamil Tayyar

 

Ali Bayramoğlu

 

Yasemin Çongar

 

Ekrem Dumanlı Kapatılsa ne olur kapatılmasa ne olur?

 

Nuray Başaran Fethullah Gülen ile 1 saat 15 dakika (1)

 

Ertuğrul Özkök Zatürree mi Genelkurmay mı

 

Ahmet Hakan

 

M Ali Birand Gül, Milli maç için Erivan'a gitmeli...

 

Şahin Alpay Muhalefet boşluğu ve nedenleri

 

İhsan Dağı Darbeciler ne zamandır Batı düşmanı?

 

Mümtazer Türköne Ergenekon Cephesi

 

Cüneyt Ülsever Ölüm mü, sıtma mı?

 

Enis Berberoğlu Tolon-Aygün, TOBB-TSK

 

Oktay EkşiKıbrıs’ta tango

 

Özdemir İnce

 

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

 

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK

 

ENGİN ARDIÇ

 

ERGUN BABAHAN

 

EMRE AKÖZ Ergenekon dostunu nesinden tanırsınız?

Umur Talu

 

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

 

NAZLI ILICAK Pazarlık mı var?

 

MEHMET BARLAS

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

 

YAVUZ DONAT

 

TAMER KORKMAZ

Sakın ha, kuşkulanmayın…

 

KÜRŞAT BUMİN

Bugünlere dair eski bir söyleşi

 

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Türkiye neoconları, mezar evler,'İslamcı terör' keşfi

 

 

 

Ekonomi

 

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

 

Ercan Kumcu

 

Erdal Sağlam Dış ilişkilerde tehlikeli eğilimler

 

 

 

 

 

H4 New York Times Bosnian Serb Under Arrest in War Crimes   Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals for his part in the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested Monday, ending a 13-year hunt.

 

Man in the News: A Leader Turned Ghost

 

Unilateral Action by U.S. a Growing Fear in Pakistan

 

Iran Offers 2 Pages and No Ground in Nuclear Talks

 

News Analysis: A New Openness to Talks With That ‘Axis of Evil’

 

DAVID BROOKS The Culture of Debt America once had a culture of thrift. But over the past decades, that unspoken code has been silently eroded

 

Help the Palestinians Help Us

By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN Unless there are effective Palestinian security forces, Israel will never trust in a Palestinian state or be able to act on the quiet progress being made toward reaching a final settlement.

 

 For Obama, a First Step Is Not a Misstep   After meeting Iraqi leaders and American officials, Barack Obama seemed to have navigated the riskiest part of an international trip without a hitch.

 BOB HERBERTMadness and Shame When the constraints of the law are unlocked by people at the pinnacle of power, terrible things happen in the real world.

 

Editorial China’s Unreality TV

Apart from China, no one deserves criticism more than the International Olympic Committee, which has indulged Beijing at every turn

 

Court in Pakistan Muzzles Disgraced Nuclear Scientist

 Sarkozy Ekes Out Victory on Constitutional Changes 

 

Upstart Party Gains Power as Major Vote Nears in India

 

1,600-Year-Old Bible to Go Online

 

Mideast Sees More of the Same if Obama Is Elected

 

Women Are Now Equal as Victims of Poor Economy  Women in the workplace are being afflicted by the same troubles as men. And they are responding as men have, by dropping out or disappearing for a while

 

Military Trial Begins for Guantánamo Detainee

H5 Washington Post Iraq Points to Pullout by 2010 Senior Official Is Second in Recent Days to Back Timetable Similar to Obama's

 

ANALYSIS Obama Makes War Gains Maliki's Embrace of Withdrawal Timeline Confounds McCain By Dan Balz

 

Bosnian Serb Captured; Sought for War Crimes Radovan Karadzic Hid for a Decade

 

Russian Bombers Could Be Deployed to Cuba Move Would Be Response to U.S. Missile Defense System, Newspaper Izvestia Says

 

Indian Legislators Begin Key Debate

U.S. Nuclear Deal Hangs in Balance

 

Obama's Iraq Mission By E. J. Dionne Jr., To win, Obama needs only to battle McCain to a tie on foreign policy and national security

 

Obama, Foreign Policy Realist

Fareed Zakaria | Obama's world view contrasts sharply with McCain's exuberant idealism.

 

Timelines in the Sand By Eugene Robinson, Bush is now amenable to a 'time horizon' for Iraq. This is apparently not at all like a timeline

 

The Saudi Guide To Piety

By Anne Applebaum, 'Revised' Saudi textbooks have been designed to be less harsh on infidels. It's hard to tell.

 

Judge in Detainee Trial Bars Some Evidence Prosecutors at Guantanamo trial of Osama bin Laden's driver cannot use statements that were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions

 

Editorial Captive to a Discarded Cause Egyptian dissident Ayman Nour embraced the president's 'freedom agenda' in 2005. He is still in jail.

 

Rush-Hour Blasts Kill at Least Two In South China Officials Fear Attacks in Run-Up to Games

 

Portrait of a Predicament: Putin's Face, or Medvedev's?

H6 Guardian Bush blinks first as oil price dazzles Dilip Hiro: What explains Washington's sudden softening attitude on Iran? Could it possibly be the economy?

 

No U-turn. Obama's stance on Iraq is chillingly consistent Sami Ramadani: The presidential hopeful has been accused of flip-flopping over the occupation, but he was never for full withdrawal

 

Iraqi government backs Obama timetable  Nouri al-Maliki endorses democratic candidate's proposal to pull out all forces by April 2010

 

Out of Iraq, into the White House?

Michael Tomasky: The Iraqi prime minister's support of Barack Obama's troop exit plan is the biggest story of the election campaign so far

 

Nuclear brinksmanship in India

Randeep Ramesh: The result of the Indian government's confidence vote this week will shape the country's future – and global geopolitics

 

A missed opportunity at the Knesset  Jonathan Steele: The slip in Gordon Brown's speech in Israel about Iran's nuclear 'weapons' programme was symptomatic of a misjudged message

 

Seize chance of peace, Brown urges Israel Withdrawing from illegal West Bank settlements would bring security, says prime minister

 

What the next US president means for Europe Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier: Barack Obama's transatlantic trip should remind Europe that it must assume more responsibility for Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

 

A dangerous fiction Misha Glenny: The war on drugs is a non sequitur - and is equally harmful to both producers and consumers

 

Down but not out Anton La Guardia: Military efforts to destroy al-Qaida have achieved partial successes; a wiser strategy is to help Muslim governments confront and neuter the jihadists

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