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Editorial The Next Prime Minister Putin nominates himself

Sanctions Won't Stop Tehran By: Selig S. Harrison | The Washington Post Suppose that the Bush administration abandons its campaign for economic sanctions, tones down talk of war and opens direct negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program. Suppose also that it drops its insistence on the suspension of uranium enrichment as a precondition for dialogue.

American Interest Faith & Progress The history of the world has been shaped decisively by the exploits of English-speaking people. Anglo-American freedoms, which are the very sources of worldly success, are rooted in religious faith. Walter Russell Mead

Los Angeles Times You can't win with civil wars By Barbara F. Walter History teaches that conflicts like Iraq drag on and rarely produce peace deals.

Countering a Nuclear-Armed Iran Can We Change the Current Trajectory?

Christian Science Monitor Are US and Iran headed for war? Despite hard-line rhetoric on both sides, analysts say diplomacy is the far more likely outcome.

Putin plan: more democratic? If he became prime minister alongside a weaker president, some analysts say that would create a better balance of power

Syria still weighs retaliation for Israeli raid Officials in Damascus say that another strike would be met with a Hizbullah-style counterattack.

Financial Times LEADER: Putin's power play with democracy

The president gives every appearance of wanting to use the machinery of democracy to consolidate his dominance

Gazprom warns on Ukraine gas cuts Gazprom warned it could cut gas supplies to Ukraine over a $1.3bn debt in what looked to be a political move ahead of a possible return to power of a pro-western coalition in Kiev

COMMENT: Life could yet follow death for the idea of securitisation It is possible to sell complex products safely, but only for companies that demonstrably care about their reputations, writes Martin Wolf

WORLD NEWS - IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: ElBaradei warns Tehran to come clean on 'work plan'

Guardian Leader Beating the retreat Iraq: Britain must not make the same mistake as it did when it invaded Iraq. Withdrawal must be accompanied by political dialogue, otherwise only warlords will triumph.

Brown should listen to the military and quit Iraq now Jonathan Steele: The best way to improve Britain's standing in the Middle East is to admit to a terrible blunder and withdraw.

Russia issues gas ultimatum to Ukraine Russia threatenes to cut gas supplies to Ukraine in move that reflects displeasure at new orange government

Simon Tisdall The Russian president remains hugely popular at home. But will such support continue as he makes a bid for the premiership How Putin could be heading for a fall

BBC Goodbye Basra
Warlords, kidnapping and death threats, why thousands are fleeing

UK-Based Arab Paper Doubts Credibility of US White House Stand on Iraq Partition

Strategic Studies Institute Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges Contemporary Egypt evidences severe failures of governance and political and economic development. Along with the continued strength of moderate Islamists and violent outbursts of radical Islamists, the pressing need for democratization has been set back by the "emergency" procedures used by the government to control security. by Dr. Sherifa D. Zuhur

Country Analysis Brief: Iran
Source: Energy Information Administration

New Revelations in Attack on American Spy Ship By: John Crewdson | The Chicago Tribune
Four decades later, many of the more than two dozen Liberty survivors located and interviewed by the Tribune cannot talk about the attack without shouting or weeping. Their anger has been stoked by the declassification of government documents and the recollections of former military personnel which strengthen doubts about the U.S. National Security Agency's position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots

Le Monde Hubert Védrine : "Des conflits énormes se préparent"

Le siècle de la puissance relative, par Pierre Hassner

Dems Propose Tax Surcharge for War

DT France takes Brown's place as closest US ally

Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Speech

SPIEGEL Interview with Joschka Fischer: 'An Anti-American Axis? That's Nonsense'

NYT Iraqis Need a Year to Control Baghdad, U.S. General Says

New Republic Should There Be A "War on Terror"? And Are We Winning That War? The final part of a debate about Iraq, Al Qaeda, Abu Ghraib, and what an "aggressive" foreign policy really means. by Reuel Marc Gerecht

Scrambling for Kazakh Oil ISA
A deepening dispute over the world's largest recent oil find is raising fears among western mineral extraction firms and governments of a reversal in their preeminent position in Kazakhstan, as voracious Asian powers scramble to secure their own economic futures.

OpenDemocracy Islam and Europe: an Amsterdam debate, Fred Halliday

Kahl: 30,000 - 70,000 US Troops Likely to be in Iraq for Many Years

Ha’aretz Yossi Melman: "Records on North Korean ship docked in Syria were altered."

PDPBR for September 29-October 2, 2007

Blotter Throwing in the Towel in Pakistan

Middle east Times Commentary: Why no one really wants a Syria regime changeClaude Salhani

Commentary: So what about Iran? Uri Avnery

Afghanistan's Taliban: US Tactics - Defeat or Negotiate?

H2 Tactical and Strategic Factors in Turkey's Offensive Against the PKK
Global Terrorism Analysis -

TimeBlog The Slippery Slope Towards Kurdish Autonomy

VOA Ermeni Tasarısı Oylanacak Amerikan Kongresi’nde görüşülmeyi bekleyen Ermeni soykırımı iddialarıyla ilgili tasarının, 10 Ekim’de Dışişleri Komisyonu'nda oya sunulması planlanıyor

Ermeni tasarısı 10 Ekim'de Kongre'de

US congressional panel to vote on Armenia genocide resolution

Russian S-400 missiles divide Turkish Air Force

Sami KOHEN Kongre'de geri sayım başlarken

US special coordinator in struggle against PKK resigns from State Department

CFR A Conversation with Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Audio)

JTA A House committee will vote on a resolution recognizing the Ottoman massacres of Armenians as genocide.

ABD Dışişleri: "Kongre ile yakın temastayız"

Tasarı Genel Kurul gündemine gidebilir

ABD'de Ermeni tasarısı haftaya oylanacak

The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Turkey and France: calm after the demagoguery By Ahmet O. Evin

Türkiye'nin üyeliği AB'yi güçlendirir Martti Ahtisaari

Morgan Stanley Turkey The Mystery of September

TURKEY: Back in Reconciliation Mode with EU

The Rise of a New Ottoman Empire: The Trap of Interfaith Dialogue

FT Turkey blasts fuel fury over terror attacks

Babacan: ‘Serious mistakes’ made in PKK acquiring US weapons

BBC Women condemn Turkey constitution Women's groups in Turkey attack a new draft constitution, saying it will damage gender equality.

BUYUKANIT WARNS AKP ON CONSTITUTION, DTP ON PKK - Eurasia Daily Monitor

Study: Turks cooling towards West (SETimes.com)

Guardian Armada and dangerous

Dave Hill: Trevor Phillips' suggestion that Ottoman Turks should be recognised for helping defeat the Spanish in 1588 reveals the warzone 'our national story' is.

11 Eylül Saldırıları ve İslamofobi

İslam Konferansı Örgütü Genel Sekreteri Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Amerika'nın Sesi stüdyolarına konuk oldu

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

FEATURE-Arabs quitting Iraq's Kirkuk as part of govt plan

KRG Announces Four New Energy Deals Tuesday

Beyaz Saray'da Bush-Talabani Görüşmesi

[YORUM] Terör seçimin rövanşı mı?

Nasuhi Güngör Kuzey Irak fiyaskosu kimin eseri?

Şamil Tayyar PKK’da iç çatışma ve taban kayması

Serdar Turgut Aman sakın ha!

İbrahim Tenekeci Türkler ve Kürtler

English-Kurdish dictionnary

Hunt Oil CEO denies ties aided Kurdish deal: reports (Reuters)

Official Says Iraqi Kurds Can Secede If Kirkuk Issue Not Resolved

DTP: Erdoğan’la İmralı’nın açıklaması benziyor

Turkey launches fresh Middle East initiative

Üç bakan Şırnak'ta

Iraklı Kürdler Kürdistan işçi partisi militanlarının takibini aksatıyor

Türk "Demokrasi için bedel ödemeye hazırız"

Gül'den DTP'ye mesaj

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Beşağaç'ta 12 kurban, barış, C-4 sevkıyatları

BERİL DEDEOĞLU [YORUM] Amerika'nın İran'la dansı!

Diyarbakır 'Kürt konferansı'na savcılık incelemesi

DTP'li Türk'ten tuhaf benzetme

Tanklar bu kez Cizre ilçesindeydi

Cudi ve Gabar’da eller tetikte

'K. Irak teröristin idman sahası gibi'

Tuğluk’un Tutuklanması gündemde

FT COMPANIES - EUROPE: Heritage agrees Kurdish oil contract

Iraqi Kurdish Bloc Supports US Congress Resolution on Iraq

Turkish Daily Sees USA, EU Wrangling Over Control of Separatist Kurdish Party

Iraqi Kurdish Paper Questions Responsibility for Entry of Arrested Iranian

Gabar ve Cudi'de atış talimi

DTP demands probe into Beytüşşebap massacre

Tufan Türenç Şu çıldırtan tümce

Hüsnü Mahalli ABD, ılımlı İslam ve Türkiye -2

Mehmet Altan Suriye’den

Americans still welcome in Iraqi Kurdistan

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

9 ülke daha yıl sonunda Schengen'e dahil oluyor

Mensur Akgün Kesişen yolların şehrinde bir cumhurbaşkanı

Sadi Somuncuoğlu AB süreci kimlere yarıyor?

Oskanyan'a 'cep'ten Akdamar'ı gösterdi

Sarkozy'nin tutarsızlığı! SEGOLENE ROYAL

Avrupalı siyasilerden Türkiye'ye AB desteği

How to close the Armenian dossier with a win-win formula by MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ

Hasan CEMAL Gül'le Avrupa'nın vicdanına yolculuk!

'Atatürk yaşasaydı AB'ye girmiştik'

Armenian lobby slams Oomen-Ruijten for excluding ‘genocide’

PKK’yla görüşen Davis’i sildi

AP 'Türkiye taslağı' bugün oylanacak

AKPM Genel Kurulu'nda ilk Türk Cumhurbaşkanı

Steienmeier Türkiye, AB’ye yakınlaşıyor

Almanyalı Türkler Birleşmeden Hoşnut Değil

Armenian lobby slams Oomen-Ruijten for excluding ‘genocide’

AİHM'e rezil olduk

Erhan Tuncel'in dava dosyası imha edilmiş

Dünyanın en güçlü 8'inci kadını Güler Sabancı

Türk mühendislerin 'ATAK' başarısı

Winter games to put Erzurum and Palandöken in spotlight - Turkish Daily News Oct 02, 2007

Discover history at the Anatolian Civilizations Museum

New Yorker The Istanbul Biennial.

Peter Schjeldahl

H3 Murat Yetkin Gül'den AB mesajı AB yolunda 301 gibi eksikler olduğunu belirten Gül, 'Herhalde TBMM bunları etraflıca gözden geçirecektir. İcraatı hükümet yapar. Ben cesaret veririm' dedi

10 soruda referandum

TUHAF BİR REFERANDUM

Referandum bilmecesi

Referendum countdown continues, Gül’s future debated

Fikret BİLA 'ABD askerleri bazen aptalca şeyler yapar'

Taha AKYOL Asker gözüyle tezkere

Taha Kıvanç Hangi tarih doğru tarih

Şamil Tayyar PKK’da iç çatışma ve taban kayması

[YORUM] Terör seçimin rövanşı mı?

Cengiz Çandar Hrant davası ve 301, AKP’ye kefil olmak ya da olmamak

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Büyükanıt ne demek istiyor?

Abdülhamit Bilici ABD'nin İran talepleri ABD ile ilişkiler nereye gidiyor?

M Ali Birand AKP’ye aydın desteği, AB ile sınırlı

Cüneyt Ülsever Başbakan’ın ABD’deki kritik toplantısı

Günün gazete manşetleri

Serdar Turgut Aman sakın ha!

100 metre arayla bombalar patladı

Erdoğan'dan Büyükanıt'a yanıt: Teminat hükümet

İzmir'de 2 yerde bomba patladı: 1 ölü, 11 yaralı

Engin Ardıç Soğuk iç savaş başlattılar

Nuray Başaran Meclis açılırken Büyükanıt ve Başbuğ’un mesajları

İsmail Küçükkaya Askerin Meclis resepsiyonunda verdiği mesaj

Serdar Akinan Medyada gelecek...

Gül Yeni dönem gölgelenmesin

Dink cinayetindeki derin ‘ihmalin’ belgesi!

Bahçeli Türkiye'yi baskıcı ve otoriter ülke görünümünden kurtarmalıyız

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

Fehmi Koru Üslup esastan önce gelir

Faruk Şen Uluslararası imaj

KÜRŞAT BUMİN 'Sorun yok' denemez

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Yaşasın 1 Mart!

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan

Baykal: Köşk, AKP'nin noteri olmaya başladı

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Durumumuzun resmi

Bekir Coşkun ’Göbeğini kaşıyan adam’ kafasını kaşıdığında...

Mehmet Yılmaz Kravat taktı cezasını indirelim!

Hadi Uluengin Cumhuriyet, yöntem ve yanlış

İlnur Çevik New legislative year with new challenges

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Bahçeli'nin öngörüsü

ERDAL ŞAFAK Köprüler atılmadan

ERGUN BABAHAN "Yeni dönemi gölgelememek lazım"

EMRE AKÖZ Yeni bir entelektüel rakip: Genelkurmay

Umur Talu O da etnik terördü

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Şener konuştu

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Gül, TBMM konuşmasına nasıl hazırlandı?

Referendum 'Evet' çıkması Gül'ü nasıl etkiler?

Erdoğan neden Demirel'i saymadı?

Mustafa Ünal Önümüzdeki iki şeçenek

Ali Bulaç Toplum-din ilişkisi

Gül calls for frank debate of key issues

Mehmet Tezkan Ne İran ne Malezya.. Yeşil Türkler için model ülke Rusya..

Ege Cansen İşte Atam, 226 milyar dolar dış borç

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Merkez, faiz kararının tutanaklarını açıklasın

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

Güngör URAS
Yerli de yabancı da oluk oluk döviz getiriyor

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Hem dövizle borçlan, hem de kuru eleştir

MB’den hükümete bağımsızlık uyarısı

İ.Hüseyin Yıldız
Bozulan mali disiplin

İstanbul'u global finans merkezi yapacak rota hazır

Yeni programın getirecekleri

INTERVIEW-Ankara gas tender completed by end-Nov-mayor | Markets | Reuters

Tekel'in satışında geri sayım başladı

İstihdam rekortmeni Anadolu kaplanları

Metin MÜNİR
Türkiye'de banka müdürleri ne kazanır?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ
Türkiye Malezya olur mu? -2-

İhracatçının yüksek faiz isyanı büyüyor

Eser Karakaş Özel sektörün dış borç dinamiği

Country report: Turkey - Want turbo-charged growth? Head to Turkey.

Ucuz Çin otomobili aralıkta geliyor sipariş kuyruğu şimdiden başladı

Iraqis Need a Year to Control Baghdad, U.S. General Says

Editorial The Next Prime Minister Putin nominates himself

Shiite Bloc Condemns U.S. Policy Of Recruiting Sunni Tribesmen

Sanctions Won't Stop Tehran By: Selig S. Harrison | The Washington Post
Suppose that the Bush administration abandons its campaign for economic sanctions, tones down talk of war and opens direct negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program. Suppose also that it drops its insistence on the suspension of uranium enrichment as a precondition for dialogue.

Editorial Blackwater Waves The private security firm has made plenty of enemies in Iraq and in Washington

Why They Don't Like Us Would You Follow the Country That Bungled Iraq? By Anne Applebaum,

Guards in Iraq Cite Frequent Shootings: Companies Seldom Report Incidents, U.S. Officials Say

Musharraf Names Ex-Spy Chief to Lead Army: Charges Against Bhutto May Be Dropped

Part 4 | Spring 2006 - Summer 2007 'At the End of the Day, It's Warfare' in Iraq

The military begins to make some progress disrupting the bomb chain before IED is emplaced. Still, an attack occurs every 15 minutes.

• Countermeasures: From Humvee to Human Eye

Gazprom Warns Ukraine of Gas Reduction

Clinton Widens Lead in Poll, Boosts Fundraising For the first time, N.Y. senator is drawing support from a majority of Democrats, opening up a lead of 33 percentage points over Sen. Barack Obama

Officials: Pakistan Losing Ground In recent months, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have won more territory, allowing for ambitious raids

N. Korea Nuclear Deal Reached "Side understanding" with U.S. could aid nation's removal from list of state sponsors of terrorism

FROM THE CATO INSTITUTE: Is Ethanol the 'Energy Security' Solution?

Atheists v. God: Exhibit A Richard Dawkins | Bin Laden and his followers are all the evidence you need that religion -- not atheism - breeds evildoers.

Report Finds FBI Still Vulnerable To Espionage

Other Killings By Blackwater Staff Detailed

State Dept. Papers Tell of Coverup

H6 Guardian Leader Beating the retreat Iraq: Britain must not make the same mistake as it did when it invaded Iraq. Withdrawal must be accompanied by political dialogue, otherwise only warlords will triumph.

Brown should listen to the military and quit Iraq now Jonathan Steele: The best way to improve Britain's standing in the Middle East is to admit to a terrible blunder and withdraw.

Russia issues gas ultimatum to Ukraine Russia threatenes to cut gas supplies to Ukraine in move that reflects displeasure at new orange government.

Blackwater denies Iraq charge
Head of security firm denies company was aggressive in alleged killing of Iraqi civilians.

If not Putin, who? Anna Matveeva Who will succeed the Russian president when his term in office ends? Could it be the current president in a new guise?

A peace to begin all peace

Daniel Levy Israel's tough approach to Gaza will derail hopes for a Middle East summit. To keep the prospect alive, Israel and Hamas should agree to a ceasefire

Oil on the slide Jeremy Leggett

We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening

From Blackpool to Baghdad

Martin Kettle: Conservatives 07: Gordon Brown has tried to upstage the Tories with his Basra pullout. But the Tories still have the EU - and for once are united

The return of the Taliban?

Conor Foley If the Taliban are welcomed back to Afghanistan's government it will represent an extraordinary political defeat for the liberal interventionists

A paler shade of orange
Adam Swain: As Sunday's turnout showed, Ukrainians know very well their election has been hijacked again.

H7 Strategic Studies Institute Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges Contemporary Egypt evidences severe failures of governance and political and economic development. Along with the continued strength of moderate Islamists and violent outbursts of radical Islamists, the pressing need for democratization has been set back by the "emergency" procedures used by the government to control security. by Dr. Sherifa D. Zuhur

Country Analysis Brief: Iran
Source: Energy Information Administration

Analysis: Iran sanctions expanding A groundswell of opposition to Iran is pushing U.S. states to divest their pension funds from companies that do business in Iran, and behind-the-scenes political efforts by the administration are paying off with increased European support of government sanctions.

Daily Star It is insulting to blame the Iraqi people for what America and Britain did

Freer markets but unfree minds in Egypt
By Rami G. Khouri

Musharraf's vision has turned into power-driven myopia
By Pramit Pal Chaudhuri

CIA Unit Focusing on Tehran

UN: Most Violent Year in Afghanistan Since 2001

UPI Mixed reaction to Saudi religious campaign There is mixed reaction to the continuing campaign by Saudi religious authorities to de-legitimize violence in the name of Islam.

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

US Papers Wed: 'Put them back on the wire'

Iraq Papers Wed: Basra, a Month Later

BBC Goodbye Basra
Warlords, kidnapping and death threats, why thousands are fleeing

UK-Based Arab Paper Doubts Credibility of US White House Stand on Iraq Partition

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 2 Oct 07

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 2 October 2007

Arab League Reaffirms Rejection of US Senate Resolution to Divide Iraq

BBC Monitoring Weekly Roundup of Iraqi Press 26 Sep to 02 Oct 07

Blackwater boss grilled over Iraq The chairman of US private security firm Blackwater defends his company during a grilling by US lawmakers.

H9 Ha’aretz – Mideast summit may be delayed to late November

Rosner Rice's clock The real controversy surrounding the summit will not be the right of return, Jerusalem or borders. These have all been discussed and clarified. At most they will serve as an excuse to conceal the real gap: the question of the timetable.

Israel-Palestine: Forget the right of return, the real problem is timetable

IDF lifts censorship restrictions on air strike in Syria

Amira Hass: Jews who decline to protest Israel's apartheid

Israel says it bombed Syria, but why remains a mystery

A majority of US senators signed a letter urging Condoleezza Rice to pressure Arab states to the peace table.

BBC Israel admits air strike on Syria Israel confirms for the first time that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military site almost a month ago.

Justin Raimondo 10/01/2007
The Lobby on Trial

Yedioth Ahronoth Talks may backfire/ Eiland It is wrong to assume that negotiations inevitably result in positive outcomes

Race to declaration begins
Wednesday meeting between Olmert and Abbas in Jerusalem signals the launch of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations towards formulating peace process guidelines ahead of US summit in November

'End Arab anti-Semitism'

Dozens of American senators sign letter calling for US pressure on 'friendly Arab states'

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

Report: Russia sent technicians to Syria

Fatah cops cruise Ramadan fast lane

A new Palestinian police unit is patrolling the streets of Ramallah to ensure Palestinians don't violate the Ramadan daily fast, an apparent bid by the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority to compete with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.

Israel lifts ban on Syria raid reporting

Congress approves $1.2 billion worth of US-funded Israeli arms purchases, including 50 huge GBU-28 guided bunker busters

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israel lifts military censorship on Sept. 6 Israeli air force attack Tuesday, 24 hours after Assad’s partial admission

Report: Israeli Jets Foiled Russian Radar in Syria - Uzi Mahnaimi (Sunday Times-UK)

Hamas Struggles to Beat Boycott Squeeze –

WSJ Palestinian Propaganda Coup - Natan Sharansky

The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: No Hatred So Common - Russell Working (Chicago Tribune)

Tony Karon Israelis Fighting Israeli Apartheid

H10 Christian Science Monitor Are US and Iran headed for war? Despite hard-line rhetoric on both sides, analysts say diplomacy is the far more likely outcome.

Putin plan: more democratic? If he became prime minister alongside a weaker president, some analysts say that would create a better balance of power

Syria still weighs retaliation for Israeli raid Officials in Damascus say that another strike would be met with a Hizbullah-style counterattack.

More questions on Blackwater

Private security has hurt the US image in Iraq, said a new House report.

Recast UN human rights group: any better? The US has shunned membership in it, but some experts cite reforms such as review of the council's members.

ASIA

Bush OKs pact on N. Korea nukes

President Bush yesterday approved a draft agreement with North Korea that would disable its main nuclear complex and produce a full list of Pyongyang's other atomic activities by year's end in exchange for political and economic incentives from the United States and its partners.

US News &World Report Pakistan's Uneasy Relationship With Washington

Asia's Forgotten Crisis By: Michael Green and Derek Mitchell | Foreign Affairs Over the past decade, Burma has gone from being an antidemocratic embarrassment and humanitarian disaster to being a serious threat to its neighbors' security. The international community must change its approach to the country's junta.

North and South Korean leaders move closer to peace

The historic meeting has raised concerns that South Korea's president may concede too much in negotiations.

To intervene or not to is the issue
Gulf News - By Amir Taheri,

Le Monde L'heure de la Chine, par Daniel Vernet

INVESTING IN INDIA: A demographic time-bomb that should explode into prosperity

South Korea meets North to bridge 50-year gap
· Low key welcome raises fears over Kim's health
· Pyongyang meeting aimed at hastening reconciliation

The Times Crossing the Line

South Korea must be wary of its unpredictable northern kin

Geopolitical Diary: A Second Summit for the Koreas
Stratfor

Asia Times Why China has it wrong on Myanmar China, in the face of the latest unrest in Myanmar, has reverted to its traditional stance of non-interference in another country's internal affairs, despite its extensive clout and commercial interests there. The opportunity exists, though, for Beijing to enhance its image considerably by putting pressure on the generals, and in the process distinguish itself from regional rival India, which prefers to look the other way. - Bernt Berger

Independent Leading article: This is no time to ease pressure on the generals

Burmese junta opens door to talks with Suu Kyi

H11 IHT The monks and realpolitik By SALIL TRIPATHI The ultimate tragedy of the Iraq war is that It has made future interventions in Darfur, or Yangon impossible.

For a Balkan shipping agent, wars are opportunities Documents obtained by UN officials and a Belgrade research center show a pattern of companies managed by Tomislav Damjanovic flying weapons to regions under UN sanctions. Above, Damjanovic at a farewell dinner for some his staff. The Serbian government recently rescinded his airline's license to carry arms shipments.

EUROPE European press review

Bosnia: Backwards, Full Speed ISA
At a time when the international community - which for all intents and purposes has run the country since the end of the war - is attempting to do away with the divisions cemented in the compromising Dayton Peace Agreement and unify the country, nationalists are reaching out to wartime maps and wartime sentiments for political capital. The division into two separate and largely autonomous entities - the Bosniak- and Bosnian Croat-dominated Federation entity and the Bosnian Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity - and the separate administrative Brcko District, has rendered Bosnia a costly and regressive nation.

Bernard Kouchner: BLOOD OF BURMA PROTESTORS IS 'OUR BLOOD'; ABSENT U.N. ACTION, FRANCE SUPPORTS 'NATIONAL SANCTIONS' AGAINST IRAN; IRAQ IS EUROPE'S PROBLEM TOO, NOT JUST AMERICA'S

DT And Frankenstein created: Belgium Geographically straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium's political fault lines are linguistic, explains Bruno Waterfield

Abdication crisis for Spanish king

King defends his role as abdication calls grow louder.

Euro-syndrome (Helle Dale)

H12 RFE/RL Russia: Putin Makes Next Move In 'Operation Successor'

Russia: Why The Kremlin Likes The CIA 2007

Scrambling for Kazakh Oil ISA
A deepening dispute over the world's largest recent oil find is raising fears among western mineral extraction firms and governments of a reversal in their preeminent position in Kazakhstan, as voracious Asian powers scramble to secure their own economic futures.

Vladimir Putin for ever, Zygmunt Dzieciolowski

Analysis: Putin's master plan Putin's ambitions to become prime minister may only be a covert master plan to grab a third term as Russian president

Google News Azerbaijan

BBC Ukraine rivals claim poll victory Ukraine's Orange Revolution parties and their rivals both claim victory in polls, as a vote count nears completion.

Q&A: Ukrainian election

Armenia: Former President Lashes Out at Incumbent Administration
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN
A speech by former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian, coupled with speculation about his possible candidacy in the 2008 presidential elections, has roiled Armenia’s political waters.

EDM UKRAINIAN ELECTION OVER, BUT ITS OUTCOME UNCLEAR

- ARMENIAN EX-PRESIDENT BREAKS LONG SILENCE, SIGNALS COMEBACK

- OMV VERSUS MOL: A TEST CASE FOR THE EU AND ITS ENERGY POLICY

Heritage Elections in Ukraine: A Second Chance for the Orange Revolution? By Ariel Cohen

Orange Revolution Reloaded By: Taras Kuzio | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Yulia Tymoshenko is set to return as prime minister of a rejuvenated Orange coalition with President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense party. If so, she will have saved the Orange Revolution and Mr. Yushchenko.

Tajikistan Struggles for Power By: John Helmer | Asia Times
The strategic problems for Tajikistan have been, and remain today, the desperate under-capitalization of its energy resource sector, and dependence on a single, electricity devouring plant for exportable product -- the Tajikistan Aluminum Plant.

Boston Globe Editorial Ukraine: The struggle continues

Gvosdev Some Thoughts on Europe's Energy Security and Russia Some Additional Points from the Energy Dialogue ...

H13 The Times Leader Not so Fast

Britain should not leave Iraq before the difficult job is done

Brown: 1,000 British troops to leave Iraq

Musharraf names loyalist as successor

The appointment of General Ashfaq Kiyani is President Musharraf’s latest attempt to bypass constitutional challenges

Six reasons why I’m a moderniser David Cameron must not bow to pressure and retreat from his progressive agenda

Daniel Finkelstein

A spot of polo, Malik old bean?

Islamabad is a bubble within which foreigners and rich Pakistanis cocoon themselves from the 'real' Pakistan

Jeremy Page

Forget the myths and grow up

A conspiracy theory can escalate into something far more sinister than speculation Magnus Linklater

Wall Street Journal Putin the Great
The arc of his authoritarian revival.

Iran's Economic Suicide - Stuart Levey Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its radical foreign policies have provoked international sanctions and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blunders are debilitating Iran's economy. Sustained international pressure on Iran is having an impact. More banks world-wide are refusing to deal with Iran in any currency. The OECD recently increased Iran's risk classification for the likelihood that the country will pay its external debts to its second-worst rating - equal to that of Gabon and Swaziland. The writer is undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence in the U.S. Treasury Department. (Wall Street Journal)

The Future of Bioenergy
Agriculture made its great leap to genetic engineering. Now it's time for carbon-based fuels to do the same.
By JUAN ENRIQUEZ

Cheap Dollar Puts US Firms in Takeover Danger

H14 Financial Times LEADER: Putin's power play with democracy

The president gives every appearance of wanting to use the machinery of democracy to consolidate his dominance

Gazprom warns on Ukraine gas cuts

Gazprom warned it could cut gas supplies to Ukraine over a $1.3bn debt in what looked to be a political move ahead of a possible return to power of a pro-western coalition in Kiev

COMMENT: Life could yet follow death for the idea of securitisation It is possible to sell complex products safely, but only for companies that demonstrably care about their reputations, writes Martin Wolf

WORLD NEWS - IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: ElBaradei warns Tehran to come clean on 'work plan'

WORLD NEWS: Putin hands baton to himself

An excellent new study of the country’s transformation since the cold war finds it is run as a business by a small clique. But the rule of law may yet emerge, says Quentin Peel

WORLD NEWS: Obama revives spirit of nuclear weapons control

Editorial LEADER: Fractured allies Ukraine must not alienate the powerful east – it must deal with the economic power of oligarchs, for to confront them would be to risk destabilising the country

WORLD NEWS - IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: IAEA chief embraces the eye of the storm

ANALYSIS: Party like it's 1999? Stocks hit all-time highs as parallels are drawn between recent Fed rate cuts and the monetary loosening that sparked the dotcom boom

COMMENT: Conceding to Serbia is a risky, short-term strategy The reality is that a hard inter­national line is the only political cover Serbia’s ‘democrats’ have, writes James Lyon

FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Early election talk sparked by troop withdrawal

WORLD NEWS: Privatised security in Baghdad draws fire

Multinationals drive US rally on weak dollar

Market shrugs off ongoing credit squeeze

COMMENT: Foreign capital must not be blocked In encouraging transparency for SWFs, politicians should focus on governance, process and risk management, writes Mohamed El-Erian

H15 Los Angeles Times You can't win with civil wars By Barbara F. Walter History teaches that conflicts like Iraq drag on and rarely produce peace deals.

The American anti-culture Jonah Goldberg: Journalism's elite don't dare speak of the patriotism that holds this country together.

Editorial Darfur deadly for peacekeepers

An attack against African Union troops could make it harder to persuade countries to join the upcoming U.N. effort

Does Mars need us?

Why go back to the moon? Or go to Mars? Does the U.S. have its priorities straight in space travel?

H16 American Politics

CSM Rudolph Giuliani: Faith in work, God, and himself

The former New York mayor's sense of discipline, which stemmed from a childhood living with a devout Catholic father and attending parochial schools, has shaped his career in public service.

Opinion: Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?

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

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Clinton trumpets fundraising lead
Democratic frontrunner surpasses Obama with $27m.

H17 Daily Telegraph Gordon Brown's Basra pullout 'is a stunt' Gordon Brown has been accused of treating the Armed Forces as a "political football" after an announcement about troop withdrawals from Iraq appeared to backfire.

Analysis: Brown's numbers game in Iraq

How Army would stage a final pullout

How the two parties shape up for battle

Where state spending review cash will go

France takes Brown's place as closest US ally

Would you vote for war on Iraq?

We may soon have a general election campaign in which fundamental questions of foreign policy will have only a marginal presence, claims Simon Heffer.

Russian demand threatens EU gas EU urges end to the Gazprom-Ukraine rift.

Diana crash pictures shown for first time

Coroner orders publication of unseen images as inquest aims to put conspiracy theories to the test, a decade after Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a Paris underpass.

Musharraf set to do deal with Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan's president appears ready to seal power-sharing deal with the exiled prime minister after dropping corruption cases against her

H18 Independent The Big Question: Can the Diana inquest tell us anything we did not already know?

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

US claims success in war on drugs The top US drugs official says anti-drug efforts are showing the best results for 20 years, and praises Mexican efforts.

BBC In the dock
Blackwater row brings scrutiny of private security firms in Iraq

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Is Blackwater A Republican Company?

WSJ Blackwater May Alter Contractor Work in Iraq

Blackwater's founder defended his firm's actions in Iraq amid tough scrutiny over shooting incidents. Private-security companies braced for stricter rules for their operations abroad. (Report)

Saudi Mufti Issues Fatwa Prohibiting Saudi Youth From Engaging In Jihad Abroad

Would-Be Suicide Bombers Speak Of Indoctrination, Fear

Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have seen a sharp increase in suicide attacks during the past six months. But as militants train more suicide bombers, some recruits are having second thoughts. RFE/RL has spoken with would-be bombers who changed their minds after being trained for suicide attacks in Afghanistan.

H20 Slate

The jailing of black America By ORLANDO PATTERSON
Even after removing racial bias in America's judicial and prison system - as we should and must do - disproportionate numbers of young black men will continue to be incarcerated.

From Prospect, 50 writers and intellectuals on the debate about British values (and part 2).

Doing Business 2008: Large Emerging Markets Reforming Fast; Egypt the Top Reformer, Eastern Europe Overtakes East Asia on Ease of Doing Business
Source: World Bank

How is the Boss’s Mood Today? I Want a Raise
Source: Psychological Science (via SSRN)

WSJ WAL-MART IS STRUGGLING to redefine its down-market image as other discounters pitch themselves as upscale and palatable alternatives.

Boston Globe Micro loans = macro impact THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE comes with a $1.4 million award and a giant international soapbox. Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, the current Nobel laureate, is using his platform to press the World Bank to double its investment in the successful antipoverty program that won him the prize: microcredit.

H21 Record 22C temperatures in Arctic heatwave

Parts of the Arctic have experienced an unprecedented heatwave this summer, with one research station in the Canadian High Arctic recording temperatures above 20C

From Forbes, a look at the top pundits in America.

The Oedipuses: “A tense and peculiar family, were they not?” Joseph Epstein’s view of Freud is happily not unprintable... more»

The skyline is falling: Newspaper or viewspaper? Advertising or editorial? The blurring of categories.

Newspapers are now stuffed full of blogs, but no clue where to put them.

A look at how blogs are moving to the mainstream just as traditional news companies are making a determined effort to become more “new media”.

US invasion ends golden age of children's TV

A wide-ranging report that shows the golden age of informative, original and high-quality shows for all ages has drawn to a close

Irving Howe knew Leon Trotsky never gave up the Leninism that led to Stalinism. But Trotsky appealed to intellectuals, rather than to the intellect... more»

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