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H1 New York Times Rice Plays Down Hawkish Talk About Iran

USIP Briefing: Syria’s Alliance with Iran

Washington Post Editorial Mr. Bush Warms Up The president joins the climate-change debate -- finally.

Rice Insists Cheney Supports Diplomacy For Iran

The Times How Russia became doubly delusional

Russian thought on how to restore national pride remains stuck in the grooves of tsarist and Soviet strategic thinking Robert Skidelsky

EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi President Open to Insurgent Talks ABC News

US Plans to Extend 'Surge' to Next Year

Kevin Drum CHENEY AND IRAN....Remember that report from Steve Clemons …

CFR Drozdiak: Climate Change Seen as Major G8 Issue

Der Spiegel The World From Berlin: 'Syria's Policy of Intimidation in Lebanon Has Failed'

Out-Thought By The Enemy By: Ralph Peters | New York Post
Our current military tactics in Baghdad are the most promising we've tried: deploying units amid the population to provide security around the clock. But we may not have enough troops or enough time left.

Talking Truth to Bush By: Mark Danner | Los Angeles Times
A sobering reality check on the Iraq war for an administration that once said it could create reality.

Analysis: At Odds with U.S. over Iraq Oil By: Ben Lando | United Press International
As the Bush administration and Congress press Baghdad to pass an oil law, a parliamentarian visiting Washington wants them to back off the legislation viewed by many to be too friendly to oil companies and detrimental to Iraq.

Financial Times COMMENT: A difficult war for Democrats As the US public sees it, setting a date to bring soldiers home to their lawn-mowers is all right. Depriving them of equipment is not, writes Christopher Caldwell.

COMMENT: What Merkel can win in the coming battle with Bush She will not return from the G8 a victor – but she will not be the leader to yield before Putin or Bush, says Bertrand Benoit.

PostGlobal Competing for Influence, Not Freeing Iraq

US may collapse as a superpower: analyst

The Iran-American dialogue: enemies within | Sanam Vakil

National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman David Gordon to be Condi's Next Policy Planning Director

Los Angeles Times Making Iran our friend By Reza Aslan Abandoning our stated goal of regime change could bring about the reforms in Tehran the U.S. has always wanted.

Baghdad clashes point to rift in Sunni Arab insurgency

Gvosdev Trans-Atlantic Tremors

Independent Robert Fisk: In the shadow of the Second World War

Nobel winners decry lack of women's rights in Middle East

Tom Barnett Let the harsh truth be told: holding onto the past kills Americans today and endangers America tomorrow

Robert Gates speech : 6th IISS ASIAN SECURITY SUMMIT SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE

H2 Guardian The last anchor of stability Mark Lattimer Jun 01 07, 07:30pm: A Turkish invasion at the northern border would compound Iraq's tragedy - Kurdistan is the only area where relative security prevails.

Ambassador Wilson Talks with NTV, June 1, 2007

FT FT REPORT - HOUSE AND HOME: Tarlabashi - On the wrong side of the street

Gül The Times'a konuştu: "Asker bana karşı değil"

TURKEY TO BRIBE US CONGRESSMEN
DeFacto Agency - Yerevan,Armenia

Times Gül'e sordu

İlginç Hayrünisa Gül tarifi!

'Güçlü olmayan siyasetçiler askeri suiistimal ediyor'

AB olmazsa ABD olur!

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Peşmerge askerimize silah çekti

PKK kamplarında yok yok!

Kandil'de kongre

Gözleri Türkiye'de

Turkish Attack in Iraq Would Hit Trade

Kerkük-Bağdat köprüsü havaya uçuruldu

Peşmerge'nin namlusu Mehmetçik'e çevrildi

Bush'tan Irak'a Güney Kore modeli

Talabani'ye 'sonuna kadar destek' sözü

Turkey taking PKK complaints to UN, NATO

ABD Savunma Bakanı: 50 yıl daha Irak'tayız

‘Mechanism against PKK works well'

Aysel Tuğluk'u protesto ediyoruz

Despite insurgents' plans, Kirkuk is 'success story'
USA Today

DEBKAfile Exclusive: US forces transfer Iraqi Kurdistan's security ...

Surge Works - Turko/Kurdistan Conflict Begins By Daily Kos

Bush'tan Talabani'ye yardım sözü

Iraq: KRG Should Be Included
Stratfor

Peşmergeler Türk askerine silah çekti

DTP seçimlerde 41 ilden bağımsız aday gösterecek

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Başbakan, Hz. İsa'nın izinde, Türkiye "şamaroğlanı"

'Hamas visit undercut Turkish efforts to delegitimize PKK'

'Kuzey Irak'ta Türk askerine silah doğrultuldu'

Iraqi PM Maliki in northern Iraq

Fatih Böhürler Kuzey Irak ve faturası

'Barzani şantaj yapıyor'

Wilson: PKK’ya karşı çalışma yapıyoruz

Wilson says US working on measures against PKK

Üçlü işbirliği sorunu sonsuza kadar çözer

PKK önceliğimiz değil

Can Dündar Mihrican Diyarbakır

Iraqi Kurdistan Govt & Security in North

Misery is the Order of the Day in Restive Kirkuk

Rubin: Barzani terörü destekliyor

Türkiye’yi konuştular

Turkish-US-Iraq cooperation best way to counter PKK: Butler

Ansar Al-Sunnah Carries Out Deadly Attacks In Mosul, Biji And Kirkuk

TSK masses 100 tanks near border with Iraq last month

Turkish Army Kills Kurdish Fighters

Another Fine Mess - Kurdistan

PKK itirafçısı da aday!

İran uçağı Diyarbakır'a indirilerek arandı

Şemdinli'de adı geçen Seferi Yılmaz, DTP Hakkari adayı

DTP desteği açıklandı

Bu ne cüret

Controversy grows over weapons found in derailed train

Vagon ve silah bilmecesi

Rubin’den Hamas eleştirisi

BYZANTINE ARMS SHIPMENTS

Dedeoğlu Terrorism’s impact on foreign policy

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

..:: ABHABER.COM ::.. EU Energy Policy and Turkey (Original Text)

Rice’tan Türkiye’ye AB desteği

İlter Türkmen Kıbrıs’ta değişen bir şey yok

Bulgaria's parliament ratifies agreement for trans-Balkan oil pipeline

Semih İDİZ Hırvatistan AB'de niçin Türkiye'nin önüne geçti?

BM Barış Gücü ne kadar etkili? Kıbrıs deneyimi

AB Troykası Gül'e operasyon iddialarını soracak

Who destroyed the ıindependence of Cyprus?

Patrik: Genelkurmay Başkanı'na çıkacağım

Critique Of Counter – Terror Policies Of Western States

'Dağlık Karabağ'da barış için ciddi ilerlemeler var'

AMERICAN SPONSOR: US CONGRESS MAY ADOPT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

Settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh is not enough for Ankara to open border with Armenia

Lisede namaza soruşturma açıldı

Fethullah Gülen'e beraat kararına bozma istemi

Genelkurmay 291 memur alacak

Okullarda dağıtılan ’Namaz Hocası’ NYT’de

Saygun Paşa: Allah Atatürk’ü başımızdan eksik etmesin

Sürpriz tanık: Akkuş’u Antalya garında gördüm

Atatürk'ün hanımı da başörtüsü takıyordu

Presidential hopeful Gül woos 'Bilderbergers'

H3 Çizmeyi aştılar

Referandum ne olacak?

Murat Yetkin - Erdoğan'ın seçim taktiği

Son ankette 3 partili Meclis çıktı

Baykal, Demirel ile görüşüyor

Tülay Tuğcu'dan Demirel'e sürpriz ziyaret

' Türk askeri Irak'ta operasyon yapıyor'

Büyükelçi Wilson: İlişkilerimiz gayet iyi

Abdülhamit Bilici ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Yasemin Çongar'ın suçu!

Transatlantik ilişkiler ve Türkiye BAHADIR KALEAĞASI

..:: ABHABER.COM ::.. EU Energy Policy and Turkey (Original Text)

Sert uyarı

ABD, Türkiye’ye hareket yapamaz

KYB: "Bilmiyorduk..."

Düğmeye Ayşe mi bastı

Enis Berberoğlu 23 Temmuz sabahına oynuyor

Tek seçicilerin en uzun 72 saati

Taha AKYOL Irak'a operasyon kimin işi?

M Ali Birand Asker çok farklı düşünüyor...

Şahin Alpay Çözüm içeride!

Şener aday olmuyor

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Şener'in şifresi

DP'de kriz çıktı

DP çatladı

Kriz gece de çözülemedi

Aday listesi ile Anavatan'ın malvarlığı kriz doğurdu

Mumcu'dan Yılmaz'a sert cevap

Dink soruşturmasında görüş ayrılığı

[NEWS ANALYSIS]
Political dance over northern Iraq speeds up

Controversial elite group meets in İstanbul

Dünyayı yönetenlerin zirvesi mi?

[Kuzey Irak'ta Son Durum] 'Kürtler tarihi zorlamamayı öğrendi'

ABD: Türk askeri Irak sınırı içinde

Survey shows Turkey headed to two-party parliament

Korkma! Sönmez BU ocak!
Perihan Mağden

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç Hayır, kravat takılmıyor

Fehmi Koru Ayıp sözcük yine devrede

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU
Darbe hazırlıkları ve gazeteciler

HAKAN ALBAYRAK
Darbenin kuvveden fiile çıkmasını göze almak

KÜRŞAT BUMİN
Polisi 'çağdaş' yetkilerle donatmak

NAZLI ILICAK Bu ne şeffaf tartışma!

ERGUN BABAHAN Terörle baş etmek...

Ertuğrul Özkök Ahmet Hakan'a katılmıyorum

Özdemir İnce Müslüman Kardeşler Milli Görüş ve AKP (1)

Murat Belge - Kemalizm ve din

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN
Cumhurbaşkanı ve anayasa
Cumhurbaşkanı beklendiği üzere Anayasa değişikliğini Meclis'e iade etti. Bundan sonrası çok karmaşık, toplumu gerçekten ...

İsmail Küçükkaya
Şener’in “sine-i millet” kararı

İsmet Berkan - Seçimin gündemi, halkın gündemi...

M.Ali Kışlalı - Din, devrim ve kadın

Oktay Ekşi Burada da öyle olsun mu?

Fikret BİLA Teziç: Anayasa paketi sakat

Emin Çölaşan Bak sen şu söyleyene!

AK Party closer to center as Abdüllatif Şener drops out

Yusuf KANLI July 23 headlines of the Turkish press ,

AKP'nin yeni transferleri
Haluk Şahin

‘Dark War’by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE*

SAVAŞ SÜZAL BÖLÜKBAŞI DOĞRU SÖYLÜYOR DEVAM

Yaşar Paşa kızmaz inşallah!
Hakkı Devrim

Bir siyasal araç olarak türban
Türker Alkan

Mumcu: DYP taahhütlerine uymadı

Ağar’a rest çekti

'Anavatan genel kurula gitmezse DP olarak yolumuza devam ederiz'

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Bu seçimde 'Bağımsızlar' patlayabilir!

Zeynep Göğüş Adaya göre oy

Hadi Uluengin Komplo mu, ilke mi?

Murat Çelik Ankara’dan son haberler

Ayşe Önal Dünya bizi nasıl algılıyor

Mahir Kaynak Tesadüf

Meral TAMER Baskın Oran: "Ne dini cemaat ezsin bireyi, ne de devlet!"

ERDAL ŞAFAK Demokrasi Manifestosu

Yalçın Doğan İklim değişikliği sanki yok

AKP vitrinine 10 yeni yüz

Şener: Aday değilim. Ama AKP'deyim

Engin Ardıç Abesle iştigal

Ege Cansen Aman, aman dalgalandırma

Ercan Kumcu

Serdar Turgut Kredi sarsıntısı

Erdal Sağlam Piyasa mantığıyla siyaset yapmanın tehlikesi

Güngör URAS Gıdada KDV mecburiyet

Deniz Gökçe İcat çıkartan adama ödül!

Neyin bolluğu bu?
Taner Berksoy

H4 New York Times Rice Plays Down Hawkish Talk About Iran

No Breakthrough as Iranian Nuclear Talks Recess By: Victoria Burnett and Helene Cooper | The New York Times
Talks between Iran’s nuclear negotiator and a top envoy for the European Union ended late Thursday with few signs they were closer to breaking their deadlock over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

H5 Washington Post Editorial Mr. Bush Warms Up The president joins the climate-change debate -- finally.

Rice Insists Cheney Supports Diplomacy For Iran

The War Against Those Against the War By Michael Kinsley, Page A13

Supporters of the war think they've outsmarted its opponents. They're wrong.

U.N. Team Still Looking for Iraq's Arsenal Though Work Is Seen as Irrelevant, Security Council Can't Agree to End It

Bush Calls on Iran to Release Detained U.S. Citizens President Ends Silence in Response To Spying Charges Against Three

Iraqi Troops' Short Baghdad Tours Faulted But Some Experts Say Quicker Pace Enhances Training

Hezbollah Leads Criticism of U.N. Vote By: Alia Ibrahim | The Washington Post
Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim militia, and other opposition groups in Lebanon on Thursday denounced the U.N. creation of an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, calling it a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.

Key Aide To Bush Will Resign Next Month Bartlett Oversees Communications

H6 Guardian Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming

Guardian investigation finds evidence of serious irregularities in the process the world is relying on to control climate change.

Bush calls for release of Americans held in Iran
President opens up another area of dispute with demand for release of four detained US citizens.
US anger after website puts Baghdad embassy at risk

Fear and luxury lure foreign legions
A look at a shadowy world of foreign legions in Baghdad, where risk and reward can be equally high.

Uncle Sam the UN deadbeat

Ian Williams Jun 01 07, 08:00pm: How can the United Nations be expected to listen to the US when Congress reneges on every funding promise?

Lebanon starts final push on militants
· Army pounds fighters holed up in refugee camp
· 'Snipers everywhere' as people hide in basements
Q&A: crisis in Lebanon

Video of abducted BBC man released Gaza reporter Alan Johnston says captors have treated him 'very well', in footage on internet.

H7 Democracies Must Speak Out for Democratic Practices, Rice Says

Anxiety in Wake of US-Iran Talks

Words in a time of war
More than any other, the Bush administration has reached for its dictionaries to redefine reality to its own benefit. Yet, almost six years after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US is in a world in which reality, sometimes absurdly, sometimes grimly beyond comprehension, outraces any words the Bush administration may propose for it. - Mark Danner

Daily Star Time for sane leaders in the region to take charge of their own affairs

What happens now after Resolution 1757?
By Rami G. Khouri

Gates: Iraq Occupation Won't Undermine US Dominence in Asia

Bush Presses Talabani on Benchmarks By: John Ward | The Washington Times President Bush yesterday pressed the president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, to help Iraq's government meet benchmarks that could calm sectarian strife and set the stage for U.S. troops to leave the region.

Dictators, white-collar crooks, and other conservative causes A look at what's new in The American Enterprise Institute's magazine.
by Jonathan Chait

Intellectual celebrity deathmatch: Noam Chomsky v. Alan Dershowitz

Heritage The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Disastrous First Year

H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq

US Papers Sat: May's Civilian Casualties

Sunni Arab Leaders Will Head for Washington

Syria says it won't cooperate in international Hariri tribunal
FM: Issue concerns Lebanon alone, and Syria won't concede its sovereignty; UN chief: resolution passed Wednesday is "binding."

Fighting continues between Lebanese government, Palestinian militants

Iraq's Anbar Province Faces Political, Military Changes

US Iraq embassy plans put on net

War in Iraq Cannot Be Won: Former British Army Chief

Al Hayat The Court Creates A New Reality in Lebanon & the Region Raghida Dergham - ... The court stands as a precedent in the Middle East region, a pledge to encircle and contain those who once thought that the strategy of politically-motivated assassinations and sowing seditions would ever block the path of justice.

A 'Velvet Revolution' in Iran? Elias Harfouch - Four Iranian citizens holding US citizenship were charged with working for the CIA, and accused of planning a 'velvet revolution' in Iran. Could such a regime, established by Imam Khomeini, be so fragile that it is threatened by an academic activist, a journalist, a social scientist?

Arriving in Damascus 2007 - First Impressions

Jun 01 SD# 1606 - Syrian Government Press in Reaction to Security Council Resolution to Establish International Tribunal for Al-Hariri Assassination: Resolution Entails 'Great Dangers' and 'Dangerous Repercussions' for Lebanon

Pakistan Won't Allow Military to Be Denigrated, Minister Says By: Paul Tighe | Bloomberg News
Pakistan won't allow groups or individuals to denigrate the military, judiciary or Parliament and wants the national media to be more responsible in covering protests in the country, a government minister said.

H9 Ha’aretz – Meshal: We'll halt rockets if IDF ends assassinations

Mati Steinberg: The Arab world position on Israel has changed

Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

MEMRI Jun 01 IA# 359 - 'We Are Facing a Second Nakba'-Reactions in the Palestinian Press to the Hamas-Fatah Clashes

Israel: Mythologizing a 20th Century Accident by Gabriel Kolko

"Israel Doesn't Want to Bail Assad Out" - Herb Keinon

Is Syria Working to Foment Civil War in Lebanon? - Mark MacKinnon

Saudi Arms Fight Brewing in Congress

Germany and Israel: Between Obligation, Taboo, and Resentment - Interview with Josef Joffe

Fabricating an Emotion for Jerusalem - Shmuel Katz

When Israel Gave America a Gift: Russia's Newest Warplane - Reuven Weiss

A Different Law for Jews - Ben-Dror Yemini (Maariv-Hebrew/IMRA/Israel Government Press Office)

'Bush neglected Middle East'

US Senator Barack Obama: Our starting point must be strong commitment to Israel's security

Time In the Shadow of the Six-Day War Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis

Interesting Times: The audacity of '67
By SAUL SINGER
The new US Iraq strategy is succeeding, but perhaps not fast enough to stem erosion in domestic support.

The Slow-Motion AIPAC Case

Israeli Candidates a Cast From The Past By: Frida Ghitis | Miami Herald
Should Israel's primary voters pin their hopes on the candidate with experience, despite troubling memories of an earlier administration? Or, should they vote for the fresh face, for the man who could bring a new approach to these troubled and dangerous times?

The Six Day War revisited

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Is Iran sending arms to the Taliban?

Coalition forces in Afghanistan have intercepted Iranian weapons crossing the border, but Iran denies supplying their longtime enemy.

ASIA China fears brain drain as its overseas students stay put
· One-child policy partly to blame as 70% fail to return · Beijing plans incentives but problem getting worse

Robert Gates speech : 6th IISS ASIAN SECURITY SUMMIT SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE

Chinese Vice-Premier Huang dies Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju, one of the most senior leaders in China, has died, aged 68.

Too much 'guided democracy'After the economic crisis that ravaged Southeast Asia a decade ago, there were high hopes for genuine political reforms to prevent a repeat of that meltdown. Indeed, some progress has been made toward greater transparency and democracy, notably in Indonesia. In Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere, however, the power elites cling to old ways. - Michael Vatikiotis

China's Nuclear Tech Exports By: Mike Olenwine | ISN Security Watch
China is likely to export its variants of recently acquired nuclear technology to Pakistan and Iran.

H11 IHT EU to resume enlargement talks with Serbia Olli Rehn, the EU enlargement commissioner, said the decision Friday had been influenced by the arrest Thursday of Zdravko Tolimir, who has been indicted for war crimes the special tribunal in The Hague.

Europe wary of Bush's motives on global warming

UN urges Mediterranean nations to coordinate rescue of migrants

No more the 'hopeless continent'
By NICKY OPPENHEIMER Africa is succeeding - not in spite of the international community's apathy or unreliability, but because of it.

EUROPE European press review

It's now up to Europe to prove its global relevance
By Joschka Fischer

BUSH & THE G-8 Bush heads for Europe with heavy baggage President Bush is to arrive in Europe on Monday faced with a long to-do list, and one over-riding obstacle in the way of all of it: For Europeans, he's the least popular U.S. president in history.

BBC Rocket man
Mark Mardell on the US bid to get Europe on side for 'Star Wars'

New Government, Old Presssure for Serbia By: Igor Jovanovic | ISN Security Watch
As Serbia's new government is formed with only minutes to spare before a deadline, finds the same issues and same actors awaiting its attention.

H12 RFE/RL Central Asia: Top UNDP Official Talks About Region's Development Challenges

One Region Or Just Three Separate Countries? Although the international community tends to treat Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia like one region, the three countries have a lot of differences.

Google News Azerbaijan

A Political Party for Georgia’s Former Defense Minister?

Bush Urges Russia To Reconsider Missile Defense

RUSSIA/CENTRAL ASIA: Security problems solidify ties

EDM MOLDOVA’S PRESIDENT CORNERED BY PUTIN
- NEW RUSSIAN MISSILES MAY REVEAL INTENT OF EAST-WEST PARTNERSHIP
- CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS DOMINATE UKRAINE’S POLITICAL CRISIS

Harpers’s Washington Insiders Lend Helping Hand to 'Princess of Uzbeks'

Oil Groups Can Still Gain From a New Era in Russia By: Alex Turkeltaub and Eleanor Thorp | Financial Times (subscription required) Moscow’s era of ‘the tyranny of unpredictability’ may be drawing to a close.

Russia: United in Opposition, Divided on Candidate By: Natalya Krainova | The Moscow Times
With the presidential election less than a year away and two pro-Kremlin candidates' unofficial campaigns in full swing, the liberal opposition remains as divided as ever over whom to support.

H13 The Times How Russia became doubly delusional

Russian thought on how to restore national pride remains stuck in the grooves of tsarist and Soviet strategic thinking Robert Skidelsky

Let Our People Go

Seizing hostages is a crime that serves no political interest

Troops mass for final assault on camp rebels The Lebanese Army pounded the Nahr al-Bared camp with heavy artillery in the opening of a long-anticipated final offensive

Islamist groups don al-Qaeda’s clothes The Johnston video proves an alarming trend: the rise of Gaza Islamist groups and radicalisation of Palestinian society

Wall Street Journal Energy Independent By JOHN FUND

The New French Connection
President Sarkozy offers the Bush team an opportunity in Europe. By MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: A difficult war for Democrats As the US public sees it, setting a date to bring soldiers home to their lawn-mowers is all right. Depriving them of equipment is not, writes Christopher Caldwell.

COMMENT: What Merkel can win in the coming battle with Bush She will not return from the G8 a victor – but she will not be the leader to yield before Putin or Bush, says Bertrand Benoit.

Climate change move leaves world guessing

A chorus of European governments, United Nations officials and green activists has for months been calling 2007 a pivotal year for climate change.

Europe furious at US climate call Germany and the European Commission reacted angrily to President George W. Bush’s apparent change of heart on climate change, setting the stage for a stormy G8 summit of rich industrialised countries next week.

Biofuels need not leave us hungry The European Union should drop tariffs on ethanol to avoid a widespread grain crunch before it is too late.

Energy versus food King corn has dethroned king coal as a prime mover in US politics. The result is that there is no sensible policy on ethanol, which has suddenly become everybody's...

COMMENT: Liberty, equality ... and now property Sarkozy has a Thatcherite plan to end French tenants’ habits of stripping the joint before leaving, writes Adam Jones.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Iran is now close to weapons-grade enriched uranium

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - MATTHEW ENGEL: How politics lost its punch

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kouchner will put France back in the diplomatic spotlight

Serbia to resume EU talks after war crimes arrest

Bush demands Iran release US citizens

BBC reporter says treated well by captors

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - FEATURE: And on the sixth day the world changed

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - DEFINING MOMENT: Michael Dukakis and the Battle for Commander-in-chief

Spy probe sours UK ties, says Russia Complaints that UK is politicising case

LEX COLUMN: Seizure later Ruling delayed on $18bn Kovykta field

COMMENT: Oil groups can still gain from a new era in Russia When it comes to Russian energy, timing is everything. Moscow deferred its decision on the Kovykta gas field but TNK-BP is still expected to lose its permit.

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST: Shock of the new It took years for electricity’s economic impact to become clear. The same will prove true of information technology.

COMMENT: The marathon man The World Bank’s new chief is a marathon runner with a passion for history – and his mother thinks he needs a haircut.

US and Spain clash over Cuba The US and Spain clashed over how to promote a democratic transition in Cuba, during the first official visit to Madrid by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state.

COMMENT: A battle brews for Blair's legacy

H15 Los Angeles Times Making Iran our friend By Reza Aslan Abandoning our stated goal of regime change could bring about the reforms in Tehran the U.S. has always wanted.

Baghdad clashes point to rift in Sunni Arab insurgency

Bush's West Wing Texans are on the wane

Gates reaffirms U.S. commitment in Asia

A cancerous symbol By Joseph Margulies The prison at Guantanamo Bay breeds terror; it must be closed now.

Words in a time of war By Mark Danner

A sobering reality check on the Iraq war for an administration that once said it could create reality.

Editorial Real-life immigration reform The compromise bill before Congress isn't perfect, but it is a bold attempt to deal with the unacceptable status quo.

Gas pains Judy Dugan and Thomas Tanton debate the causes of and solutions to rising energy prices.

H16 American Politics

BBC Political minefield
The issues likely to shape the 2008 battle for the White House

FT Democrats show similarities with Bush Eight Democratic hopefuls for 2008 hold their second debate in the tiny state of New Hampshire. But if their first outing last month was anything to go by, critics of the way the George W. Bush’s administration has handled the post-September 11 world may come away feeling short-changed

White House inner circle loses key aide

Strong job creation lifts US economy The US economy appeared to be pulling out of a stall as figures showing surprisingly strong job creation and factory expansion pushed stocks into record territory

Time A piece examines how Barack Obama gets mileage by telling audiences what they don't want to hear.

WSJ Peggy Noonan President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.

Man who should be king
Interview: Is Al Gore considering a last run at the presidency? By Suzanne Goldenberg.

Hillary Clinton: Republican saviour? Gary Younge Jun 01 07, 06:30pm: The American right cannot rally around a candidate for the 2008 presidential elections, but they can rally against one.

Root of All Bush's Troubles: It's the War - John Podhoretz, New York Post

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas Swamp Sunrise Daybook

Ron Paul is blowing up real good

H17 Daily Telegraph What if Israelis had abducted BBC man?

Had Alan Johnston been kidnapped by Jewish fanatics, the Israeli government would have been widely and immediately condemned, argues Charles Moore.

H18 Independent Robert Fisk: In the shadow of the Second World War

Nobel winners decry lack of women's rights in Middle East

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

The Balt Sun's Siobhan Gorman interviews CIA director Michael Hayden about his past year heading the Agency.

Cyberwarfare worries Estonia fell prey last month to what is being called the first cyberwar.

Washington Institute Global Anti-Terrorism Financing Group Challenged by Syria's Application Syria's application to join an international organization of financial intelligence units, despite Damascus's ongoing sponsorship of terrorism, jeopardizes the multilateral fight against money laundering and terrorism financing.

H20 Slate

The Return of the Magic Bullet:

Two new JFK books clash over conspiracy theory.

Ron Rosenbaum

Outsourcing Your Life

Sending work offshore has transformed the U.S. economy. Now, some families are tapping the same approach for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they'd cost at home. Here's how to take your to-do list global.

Global migration woes

By Victor Davis Hanson Thousands of aliens crossing our 2,000-mile border from an impoverished Mexico reflect a much larger global one-way traffic problem.

State Censors and the Battle for Internet Control By: Peter C. Glover | World Politics Review
State-sponsored censorship of the Internet has increased significantly in recent years, according to a study of 41 countries conducted over the last several months by the OpenNet Initiative, a consortium of researchers from four major universities, including Harvard and Oxford.

H21A crowd of Germans pour out of a bus before the Pearly Gates and see two signs: one points to “Heaven,” the other to “Lectures about Heaven.” Which way do they go? Fritz Stern is German... more»

Package holidays for £5 as sales plummet Mediterranean package holidays go on sale for as little as £5, as travel companies try to offload thousands of unsold holidays.

Second coming
Is web 2.0 really a new and improved version of the web?

China launches new virtual universe

Alternate reality will be able to handle seven million users at once and will create 10,000 'real' jobs.

Beatles on the brain

Daniel Levitin: Yes, they were the greatest songwriters since Schubert - and now we're beginning to understand why.

The waste land As he joins the binmen on their dawn round and visits the monstrous furnaces of a London recycling centre, Andrew O’Hagan ponders the pressing morality of rubbish.

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