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No breakthrough from Obama’s Russia summit
MOSCOW - While the US president ends his keynote visit to Moscow and arrives in Italy for the G-8 summit, his two-day meeting yields no stunning progress as the two ex-Cold War enemies remain at odds on various disputed issues. After the Russia trip, he joins fellow world leaders for the G-8 meet where the global crisis, climate change and world hunger top agenda.
Turkey and the US unites through love of countries
ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.
A breakthrough urged in Nabucco
ISTANBUL - A EU official says an imminent breakthrough looms on the draft of the text that will lay the legal framework for the Nabucco pipeline project.Turkey says talks are underway on several key issues. Meanwhile, Gazprom says Europe should avoid trying to diversify sources of natural-gas imports
EU sees imminent deal on Nabucco, Turkey says talks underway
ISTANBUL - A European Union official said on Friday that an imminent breakthrough looms on the draft of the text that will lay the legal framework for the Nabucco pipeline project, however Turkey said talks are underway on several key issues. (UPDATED)
A role for Turkey France can accept
PARIS - On the European stage, Turkey is often on the sharp end of the wit. This is perhaps no more true anywhere than in France, where President Sarkozy’s opposition to Turkey’s EU aspirations is unmistakable. Offstage, however, France knows Turkey’s role is more central to the success of the whole troupe, as one top Sarkozy adviser reveals in an interview.
Iranian opposition leader Mousavi calls for a new rally Thursday
TEHRAN - Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge to the country’s supreme leader and cleric-led system Wednesday, calling for a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers. (UPDATED)
Constructors talk energy, new stimulus
ISTANBUL - The development of energy efficient construction materials will be one of the future trends of the local construction industry, Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, chairwoman of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, or TÜSİAD, said on Tuesday.
Turkish FM unveils plan of strategic optimism
ANKARA - On the eve of his departure to put a Turkish shoulder to the wheel of Pakistan and Afghanistan's problems, the author of the country's policy of ’strategic depth,’ Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, will be traveling with a diplomatic playbook that might well be described as ’strategic optimism’.
