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29 December 2007
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H1 Washington Post U.S. Fears Greater Turmoil In Region Pakistan's Crisis Could Affect War In Afghanistan

The Right Way to Engage Iran By Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani, The National Intelligence Estimate offers a way past a stalled debate.

Independent Patrick Cockburn: Is this the beginning of the end in Iraq?

Financial Times Pakistan must seek a route from dynasty to unity A mainstream coalition government should stand up to US interference and distribute economic benefits more widely, as the PPP is likely to disintegrate without Benazir Bhutto, writes Anatol Lieven

Independent They don't blame al-Qa'ida. They blame Musharraf ROBERT FISK

Ralph Peters / New York Post:

THE BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED TO BE

New York Times A Biracial Candidate Walks His Own Fine Line Barack Obama’s postracial style is the reason for much of his political success, but it also has its pitfalls.

Crisis Overseas Is Sudden Test for Candidates The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a rare unscripted test of presidential hopefuls’ leadership qualities and geopolitical smarts

Guardian Blaming Musharraf is a mistake. He battled the extremists too David Ignatius: Benazir Bhutto's brutal killing is a demonstration of the difficulty in understanding, let alone tinkering with, Pakistan

Ha’aretz Benn, Rosner: Israel needs a 'Rice bypass road' to White House Is Rice Pushing Too Hard on Israel? - Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner

Some U.S. candidates warn: The real danger is Pakistan, not Iran

LA Times Bush's best-laid plans ,By Andrew J. Bacevich The Bhutto assassination demonstrates anew the folly of the administration's efforts to manage history.

Iraq town's safety a matter of discussion

A century on the edge: 1945-2045 , Paul Rogers

McClatchy Bloody year in Iraq ends with hopes of growing calm By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers Two statistics sum up the last year in Iraq: 2007 will end as the deadliest for American troops since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, with more than 900 dead. At the same time, December — with just 16 hostile-fire deaths as of Friday — very likely will be the month with the second fewest American deaths of the war so far.

Outside View: Basra key to 2008 in IraqUPI) -- The fate of Basra will be a key determinant of how Iraq will fare during any U.S. troop drawdown next year.

Balance of Power Is Continuing to Shift From the US by Leon Hadar

Al Awsat Lebanon Between Democracy and Civil War : Amir Taheri

The Times Defying fate was pointless Benazir Bhutto, the woman I knew for four decades, understood that if the people speak, they will not support terror Amir Taheri

Daily Star A neocon Bush Middle East policy? Look again By Michael Young

CFR Pakistan’s Institutions and Civil Society

William Arkin Bin Laden Killed Bhutto? How Blind Can We Be?

Wall Street Journal The Musharraf Problem Pakistan's military is losing its legitimacy.
By BARNETT R. RUBIN WSJ: The Musharraf Problem

Russia Not Considering S-300 Missile System Supplies to Iran - Federal Service

Iran to Negotiate Prices for Turkmen Gas Exports

RFE/RLCold War Lite

Russians are getting stronger, richer, more confident -- and more aggressive. Moscow's relations with the West sank to a new low in 2007, continuing a downward trend that is escalating as the decade progresses. Are we heading for a 21st-century version of the Cold War?

"Russia Redefines Itself and Its Relations with the West," by Dmitri Trenin, Washington Quarterly, Spring 2007

Daily Telegraph The growing Anglosphere in world politics

John O'Sullivan asks why the English-speaking network civilisation, termed "the Anglosphere", is something from which the Brits themselves shy away.

ICG Statement on the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto

Newsweek Is Rice Rushing to Elections?

The Top Five Nuclear Issues of 2008

H2 TimeHow to Talk Turkey in Baghdad

Text of Memorandum of Understanding Between Iraqi Sunni, Kurd Parties

Article Reflects on Motives Behind New Iraqi Kurd, Sunni Pact

Turkey in 2007

Turkey Ready to Stage New Raids Against PKK in Northern Iraq

Iraqi Kurds Deal-Making Over Oil, Kirkuk

Turkey's Bombing of Iraq
CounterPunch

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Yeni süreçte, Kürdler için tehlike çanları mı çalıyor?

Referendum delay in Kirkuk causes problems for the Kurdish leadership

Milyonlarca işsize müjde

Article Reflects on Motives Behind New Iraqi Kurd, Sunni Pact

Writer Discusses Iraqi Present Party's Candidates for Kurdistan Region PM Post

(Corr) Twenty Schools Closed Down in Iraqi Kurd Area Due to Turkish Air Raids

Al-Sharqiyah Interviews Kurdish, Iraqi Party Officials on New Alliance

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 27 Dec 07

RP’DEN AKP’YE KÜRT SORUNU 3

Öcalan: Bir devlet iki demokrasi

Bomba profesörü sırıttı

2. DTP'yi uyardı Türkiye'yi tehdit etti!

The future of the Kurds is the future of the Middle East Damla ARAS

We expect people to leave the PKK, says state minister

Bombada bir ipucu daha

Demirtaş ceza alırsa, DTP liderliğini Emine Ayna devralacak

PKK kamplarının haritası itirafçıdan

Iraq to offer incentives in Kirkuk oil sales push

İşte terör örgütünün kamp anatomisi

DTP: Serbest bırakılsın

DTP: Sabrımız zorlanıyor

Kahraman üsteğmen yaralı vaziyette operasyona devam etmek istedi

DTP'li Türk'ün domino korkusu

American Chronicle: The Dangers for Turkey in Iraq

Erdoğan: Terörizmin hedefini benimseyen herkes terörist

MGK discusses urgently awaited measures against terrorism

Kaçsaydı keskin nişancı vuracaktı

Sabih Kanadoğlu uyardı: 221 esnetilirse Apo da yararlanabilir

DTP'liler, KYB Temsilcisi ile sınırötesini görüştü

Gabar’ın zirvesine Skorsky-Kobra pisti

Canlı bomba takibinde ...

PKK’lı ‘Neron’lara ‘üçlü’ kıskaç

DTP'li Türk: Misyonumuz barış misyonu, inkara karşı direniş misyonu

DTP'li Türk: Misyonumuz barış misyonu, inkara karşı direniş misyonu

South Korean Assembly Approves Extension of Iraq Troop Deployment

Iraqi Kurdish MPs, Journalists Criticise New Media Law

NYT Shame of Imported Labor in Kurdish North of Iraq

Bush to Discuss PKK With Turkey's Gul

Future of Kurds is in the Caliphate NOT Kurdistan

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani slams Turkish raids inside Kurdistan

PKK, 2008 yılında sahneden silinebilir

Eskiden evlerimizi Saddam (Hüseyin) yıkıyordu, şimdiyse Türkler

140. Madde Artık Yok

Arap-Türk ilişkilerinde bulutları dağıtma zamanı

Suikast anı saniye saniye kameralarda

"Butto'yu biz öldürmedik"

Taha AKYOL Butto'nun katilleri

Benazir'den sonra Pakistan
İsmet Berkan

Din üzerinden siyasetin sonu
Murat Yetkin

Hasan CEMAL Radikal İslamla asker parantezi!

Semih İDİZ Pakistan'daki 'düşman kardeşler' uzlaşır mı?

Derya SAZAK Benazir suikastı

Oktay Ekşi Pakistan’ın yanlışı ne?

ERDAL ŞAFAK Altın kaşık, ak kaşık

Mensur Akgün Siyaset, bilim ve Butto üstüne

[Yorum - Bekir Çınar] Butto suikastı, Müşerref için sonun başlangıcı mı?

Abdülhamit Bilici Pakistan'daki kaosun kaynağı

Şahin Alpay Pakistan'da ordu ve devlet

Ali Bulaç Pakistan'da olup biten!

Ahmet Taşgetiren Türkiye’den Pakistan’a bakarken... -

Pakistan için dua zamanı

Bekir Coşkun İçimizdeki Pakistan...

İsmail Küçükkaya Butto’nun ardından

Enis Berberoğlu Fay hattı kırıldı

Hadi Uluengin İslam, Benazir ve komplo

YASİN AKTAY

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Yalçın Doğan Ya yemin et ya terk et

Government finishes amendment to Article 301

Greek-Russian 'strategic partnership'

Rehn: Türkiye'den AİHM'in Alevilerle ilgili kararına uymasını bekliyoruz

Kadro isyanı

Cyprus' isolated north will be enthusiastic — if unofficial — euro ...

The Kosovo precedent in the making
Semih İDİZ

Turks say they were absent from Armenian hearings due to religious holiday

Atina'yı sarsan seks skandalı

Yunanistan, Türkiye'yi suçladı

Trepidation as Cyprus prepares for historic e-day

Atabeyler Davası'nda karar 2008'e kaldı

MEHMET KAMIŞ - Çetelere ceza verebilmek

’Yarı açık olsun’ dedi oldu

Bakan Günay açıkladı: Golf sahaları için 110 bin ağaç kesildi

"Albay emir verdi biz öldürdük"

MHP, ASELSAN ve TÜBİTAK'taki şüpheli ölümler için araştırma istedi

DSP: Diyanet İşleri Başkanı'na 500 bin Dolara villa alındı mı?

Bülent Ecevit'in arşivindeki yazışma ve belgeler yayımlanıyor

FT The Bridge of the Golden Horn This moving story about a guest worker’s journey to Berlin and back to Turkey, her motherland, sparkles in any language

"Orhan Pamuk'un Türkçe sorunu var"

FT REPORT - HOUSE & HOME: Living with sheep and satellite TV

MHP’den ASELSAN ölümleri için önerge

Plenty of gang members, but few jailed

İslami kesim klasik müzik dinler mi?

H3 İtirafçı, PKK kamplarının haritasını verdi

MGK: Operasyona devam

MGK: Operasyonlar gerek görüldükçe sürecek

MGK'dan sınır ötesi operasyonlara devam kararı çıktı

Fikret BİLA PKK sorununa çözüm arayışları

[NEWS ANALYSIS] ‘Marriage of convenience' between gov't and military over PKK

Ruşen Çakır| Erdoğan’ın 16 yıl önce Erbakan’a verdiği Kürt raporu

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan'dan sürpriz: İlter Türkmen aracı olsun silah bırakalım

ABD ile gizli pazarlık yapıldı haberi hataydı

TSK'ya işine bak demeliydik

Sami KOHEN 2007 dış politika bilançosu

İlter Türkmen 2007 sonunda bazı gözlemler (3)

2009 yılbaşı için erken yazı BAHADIR KALEAĞASI

M Ali Birand 2008’de AKP’nin gerçek niyeti anlaşılacak

Ege Cansen Batı için büyük tehlike: Kemalizm

Ayrım noktası ABD ile ilişkiler

AKP'nin yeni hedefi yüzde 60

PKK kamplarını böyle vurduk

Cengiz Çandar Lanetli coğrafyada laiklik ve demokrasi

Öcalan: Akil adamlar komisyonu kurulmalı

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Başbakan'ın "şerefi" ve hafızası

İlnur Çevik As red lines of the Kurds turn into pink

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Sağ, sol ve Kürt hareketi neden değişmiyor?

Ankara AB yerine ABD ile yatıp kalktı

AKP'li Göksel: Türban yasağında toplumsal mutabakat sağlanabilir

Elbirliğiyle yaratılan yaratık
Murat Belge

Meral TAMER Bürokratları artık şeyhler mi belirliyor?

The 30th Kurdish uprising Burak BEKDİL

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

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

Taha Kıvanç Butto, Vatikan, Daniel Silva

Fehmi Koru Bir suikast ve bir dizi senaryo

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

2008: İletişimde meydan savaşına doğru
Haluk Şahin

Medyada tarafsızlık mümkün mü?

Tarafsızlık mı, doğru haber vermek mi?

Darbe ne işe yarar? M.Ali Kışlalı

M. Ali BİRAND Nice yıllara

Who won 2007? by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

Ertuğrul Özkök Dokuz ay yatıp kurtulacak mı

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERGUN BABAHAN Yeni bir yıla girerken

EMRE AKÖZ 'İyi ahlak' için din şart mıdır?

Nabi Yağcı Günümüz dünyasının ana eğilimi: Glokalizm

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK İstatistik ile kolay yalan söylenir

YAVUZ DONAT

Ağar'ın siyasete kazandırdığı Erhan da liderlik yarışında

Ağar’ın prensi de aday

367 şartına Baykal bile inanmamış

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

2007 ekonomisinin 12 aylık bilançosu

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam Şimşek, Merkez Bankası adaylarıyla konuşmuş, beğenmemiş

Metin MÜNİR Asgari ücret azami işsizlik mi demektir?

'Kara delik' 13 yılda 850 milyar YTL yuttu

Metin Kilci: Petkim ihalesinin iptali kamu maliyesini olumsuz etkiler

Turkey's 2007 Exports Expected to Reach 107bn Dollars

2007 kayıp yıl mı oldu? Taner Berksoy

Deniz Gökçe


Yakıt mı önemli yemek mi?

Yaman TÖRÜNER Çok şey değişti

Credit crunch, weak dollar pave way for Ülker to Godiva

Şükrü Kızılot Asgari ücret, kime ne getiriyor ne götürüyor

H4 New York Times A Biracial Candidate Walks His Own Fine Line Barack Obama’s postracial style is the reason for much of his political success, but it also has its pitfalls.

Crisis Overseas Is Sudden Test for Candidates The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a rare unscripted test of presidential hopefuls’ leadership qualities and geopolitical smarts.

Pakistan Says Bhutto’s Death Has Qaeda Link

Car Bomber Kills 8 at a Street Market in Baghdad

Shame of Imported Labor in Kurdish North of Iraq

2007: Notable Op-Eds of the Year

Editorial

In Surprise Step, Bush Is Vetoing a Military Bill President Bush said he was moving to block a provision that could expose Iraq to legal claims dating to Saddam Hussein’s rule.

H5 Washington Post U.S. Fears Greater Turmoil In Region Pakistan's Crisis Could Affect War In Afghanistan

The Right Way to Engage Iran By Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani, The National Intelligence Estimate offers a way past a stalled debate.

Editorial The Pakistan Test Some presidential candidates show they can respond quickly to a foreign policy crisis. Some flunk or foul.

Pakistan's Best Chance By Wendy Chamberlin and Marvin Weinbaum, What Pakistan needs is a pause and then a bold regrouping.

To Help Pakistan, Fight Iran - Saul Singer

Bomb in Baghdad Kills at Least 7 In Crowd of Mostly Shiite Shoppers Iraq Threatens to Cut Off Oil to S. Korea Over Kurdish Contract

Bush Plans to Veto Defense Policy Bill Iraq Redevelopment Concerns Cited

THE IMPERILED PRESIDENCY A Change on Climate In Bush's Final Year, The Agenda Gets Greener

The Opinions of the Year

A top 10 list of our most popular opinion articles -- in terms of page views. See what all the fuss was about and who got the most clicks

China Denies Hong Kong Direct Vote on Leader in 2012: Ruling by Standing Committee in Beijing Holds Out Hope for More Democratic Balloting in 2017 Election

H6 Guardian Blaming Musharraf is a mistake. He battled the extremists too David Ignatius: Benazir Bhutto's brutal killing is a demonstration of the difficulty in understanding, let alone tinkering with, Pakistan

Leader A nation convulsed
Bhutto's funeral: As Benazir Bhutto was buried yesterday beside the grave of her father, the profound implications of her assassination were only just starting to sink in

All eyes on Musharraf

Simon Tisdall Dec 28 07, 06:00pm: Pakistan's president faces a series of crucial decisions in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination

Musharraf protege might yet turn on his benefactor
General Ashfaq Kiyani holds more power in the crisis unfolding in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination

Wrong-footed Bush forced to rethink policy on Pakistan
American plans for Musharraf-Bhutto coalition thrown into disarray

Authorities point the finger at militant pro-Taliban leader
Pakistani officials claim evidence from 'intelligence intercepts' linking a pro-Taliban militant commander to the assassination

Smother until surrender

Laila El-Haddad Dec 28 07, 01:00pm: The year that was: Things were bad in Gaza in 2007. We have been deprived, isolated and ignored in a hostile territory where anything goes

After Benazir Bhutto

Arif Rafiq Dec 28 07, 02:00pm: Bhutto's murder need not result in Pakistan's demise. If the country's elite succeed in bringing about renewal she will not have died in vain

US politics has been wrecked by rigid party allegiances
Martin Kettle: America's governance system has become so polarised that it can barely solve its own problems, let alone the world's

A tragedy born of military despotism and anarchy

Tariq Ali: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair upon Pakistan. Now her party must be democratically rebuilt

H7

McClatchy Bloody year in Iraq ends with hopes of growing calm By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers Two statistics sum up the last year in Iraq: 2007 will end as the deadliest for American troops since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, with more than 900 dead. At the same time, December — with just 16 hostile-fire deaths as of Friday — very likely will be the month with the second fewest American deaths of the war so far.

Outside View: Basra key to 2008 in IraqUPI) -- The fate of Basra will be a key determinant of how Iraq will fare during any U.S. troop drawdown next year.

Balance of Power Is Continuing to Shift From the US by Leon Hadar

Al Awsat Lebanon Between Democracy and Civil War : Amir Taheri

Daily Star A neocon Bush Middle East policy? Look again
By Michael Young

CFR Pakistan’s Institutions and Civil Society

Commentary: The Security Impact of the Bhutto Assassination
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

BBC Crunch year
Will security improve enough for 2008 to bring stability to Iraq?

Baitullah Mehsud
Skilled guerrilla, militant Islamist - Bhutto's killer?

Analysis: Mixed legacy for Bhutto
(UPI) -- Benazir Bhutto embodied the best and worst of South Asian politics. She was a charismatic leader who inspired and gave hope to millions of her people, only to disappointment them with the difficult-to-shake stench of corruption; the first woman leader in a Muslim country, she was emblematic of the region's proclivity toward dynastic politics.

Commentary: Failing nuclear power
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE (UPI) -- Pakistan is one of the world's eight nuclear powers and the first one to be categorized as a failing state. Not failed yet, but on its way, and the world's major powers are powerless to correct the downward spiral.

Analysis: Pakistan's grim year
By CLAUDE SALHANI (UPI) -- It has been a grim year for Pakistan. Since the start of 2007 the country has experienced 54 suicide terrorist attacks, including two Thursday, one of which killed Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party. Bhutto was a leading contender in January elections.

Pakistan's Nukes 'Secure', Assures White House

OpenDemocracy Pakistan after Benazir Bhutto, Ayesha Siddiqa

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

The politics of murder, Irfan Husain

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Daily Star Musarraf might need to mend fences in order to hold Pakistan together

Violence as routine, and more coming By Rami G. Khouri

When an Assassin Succeeds - Rich Lowry, New York Post

Bhutto wanted ties with Israel, sought Mossad protection

Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, December 24-28, 2007

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

Russia Not Considering S-300 Missile System Supplies to Iran - Federal Service

Iran to Negotiate Prices for Turkmen Gas Exports

Russia Denies Plans to Deliver Missiles to Iran

Wall-Building Surge Hits Baghdad Reconciliation

Iraq's Anti-al-Qaeda Sunni Militias See Uncertain Future

Shopowners Flee Mixed Baghdad Areas

Ahmadinezhad Criticizes Bureaucracy in Iran

Timetable of Iran-US Talks on Iraq to Be Set in Coming Days - Agency

Syrian Leader Tries for "Dialogue Path" Through Israeli Defence Minister

Senior Leader Criticizes "Extremist Reformists" in Open Letter - Iran Paper

Talabani: Algiers Agreement valid and binding

Iranian Official Visits Egypt to Probe Normalizing Relations

Lebanon delays vote for 11th time

MESH Learning from Hizbullah - Andrew Exum

Iran, Arab World Should Improve Relations Former Security Chief

Prospects of Iran-Libya Ties Very Promising - Official

BBC Monitoring Pan-Arab TV Headlines 28 Dec 07

MEMRI Dec 28 IA# 413 - Arming, Military Training, and the Weapons Trade in Lebanon

Lebanon and Lost Opportunities Randa Takieddine - If the Lebanese were to live free of the ambitions of the Syrian regime and those supporting it, Lebanon would have enjoyed a high level of economic prosperity as it benefits from the economic boom in the Gulf region. It is only hoped today that the political crisis will not transform into security deterioration because it would be the most serious for every Lebanese and on every level.

H9 Ha’aretz Benn, Rosner: Israel needs a 'Rice bypass road' to White House

Is Rice Pushing Too Hard on Israel? - Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner

Some U.S. candidates warn: The real danger is Pakistan, not Iran

The year of missed opportunity Olmert is not capable of making difficult and unpopular decisions. He just tries not to make waves, not to annoy anyone too much − all for the sake of surviving for another month, another year.

Akiva Eldar: Peace deal must start with prisoner release

Rosner's Mailbox: Why should Ron Paul care about Israel?

The blog and the Jews (WTR)

Jerusalem Post Internal Power Struggle Shakes Hamas

Palestinian Affairs: Shades of terror


Hudna - from Hamas? What's behind the Islamist movement's initiative?

· Churchill and the Jewish state

[ COLIN SHINDLER

· Man of the year, 2007... we hope

[ DAVID HOROVITZ ,

PA: West Bank terrorists sought to sabotage peace talks

Russia denies claims of missile deal Earlier, Iran says 2nd fuel shipment reaches Bushehr; Russia: Facility will operate by Aug. 2008.

Yedioth Ahronoth Russia denies Iran arms deal

Moscow negates Tehran reports of deal to supply it with advanced S-300 missile systems

Keep on striking

Terror can be beaten, but terrorists count on Israel’s inability to keep up effort, Uri Elitzur says

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Israel's Hebrew Press 28 Dec 07

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Israel's Arabic Press 28 Dec 07

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Palestinian Press 28 Dec 07

Daily Alert.orgMiddle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

'Jews and Power' by Ruth Wisse...
reviewed by Bill Kristol

Israeli Poll Shows Defence Minister Baraq's Popularity Falling "Consistently"

H10 Christian Science Monitor

ASIA

China drops plans for Yangtze dam

Plans for controversial dam that would have forced the relocation of 100,000 residents abandoned

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0bc12f52-b4e7-11dc-990a-0000779fd2ac.html

Hong Kong to elect leader by 2017 Hong Kong's chief executive says Beijing will allow the region's people directly elect their leader by 2017.

NYT Beijing May Green for the Olympics, but Long-Term Forecast Is Gray For the world’s Olympians, Beijing’s air is a performance issue. For the city’s estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue

H11 IHT After Benazir Bhutto

Bhutto's death leaves the Bush administration with the principled, if unfamiliar, option of using American resources to fortify Pakistan's battered democratic institutions.

The trouble with trade

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Growing U.S. trade with third world countries reduces the real wages of many workers in America.

EUROPE European press review

Analysis: Europe's security record in 2007 UPI) -- Looking back over the European Union's record as security actor in 2007, two things stand out. The year will be remembered for the Lisbon Treaty, which, once ratified by the 27 member states, holds the promise of making the EU more activist and outward-looking.

Analysis: Germany's busy 2007

Training the Unemployed in France

H12 RFE/RLCold War Lite

Russians are getting stronger, richer, more confident -- and more aggressive. Moscow's relations with the West sank to a new low in 2007, continuing a downward trend that is escalating as the decade progresses. Are we heading for a 21st-century version of the Cold War?

Russian Company Releases Further Details of Second Nuclear Fuel Delivery to Iran

Russian Deputy Minister Stresses Importance of Cooperation With Iran

To Vote or Not? Abkhazia's Ethnic Georgians Decide Among all of Georgia's campaign topics, few are more emotional than that of the ability of Georgians living in breakaway Abkhazia's predominantly ethnic Georgian district of Gali to vote in the upcoming January 5 elections. Tbilisi sees obstacles; separatist Sokhumi denies them. As often in Georgia's conflict zones, the reality appears to fall somewhere in-between.

Google News Azerbaijan

H13 The Times Defying fate was pointless Benazir Bhutto, the woman I knew for four decades, understood that if the people speak, they will not support terror Amir Taheri

Musharraf's Moment Pakistan needs firm and impartial leadership to surmount the present crisis

Apocalypse? Mmm, bring it on

To atone for our mistakes — wars, global warming, whatever - we subconsciously long for punishment Matthew Parris

Government blames al-Qaeda as Pakistan burns

Wall Street Journal The Musharraf Problem
Pakistan's military is losing its legitimacy.
By BARNETT R. RUBIN

Violence Threatens Musharraf's Rule

As Bhutto's body was laid to rest, violence and looting broke out across Pakistan. How Musharraf handles Pakistan's worst unrest in decades may determine whether he keeps his job -- and whether the turmoil flares into a bigger crisis.

Probe: Skull Fracture Killed Bhutto?

A Voice for Freedom
U.S.-backed broadcasts remain the ultimate in "soft power."
By MATTHEW KAMINSKI

H14 Financial Times Pakistan must seek a route from dynasty to unity A mainstream coalition government should stand up to US interference and distribute economic benefits more widely, as the PPP is likely to disintegrate without Benazir Bhutto, writes Anatol Lieven

Obama can end the racial barter Christopher Caldwell on what it means to be black or white in America

REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2007 - 2007 IN BRIEF: War and peace

WORLD NEWS - PAKISTAN ASSASSINATION: Bush expected to stand by Musharraf

WORLD NEWS - PAKISTAN ASSASSINATION: Candidates seek political capital from the killing

REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2007 - 2007 IN BRIEF: Power struggles

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: France's capitalist Cupid Bush supposedly once said the problem with the French was they had no word for entrepreneur.

Bush to veto bill over fears for Iraqi assets George W. Bush intends to veto a $700bn defence spending bill because it includes a provision that would give Americans the right to sue state sponsors of terrorism.

US new-home sales weakest for 12 yearsSales of new homes in the US plunged to a 12-year low last month, signalling that the flagging housing market will remain a drag on the US economy well into 2008.

FT REPORT - WEEKEND MONEY: Surprise wins for Indian and Turkish funds

More purpose, less politicking, please The thinking from first principles involved in dealing with underlying issues is an essential element in reminding a political party why it wants to be in power

Where financial liberalisation got us We are caught in a credit but live in a richer and more globalised world. New regulation needs to be directed at the misuse of subprime mortgages and not at the products themselves

MARKETS NEWS & COMMENT: Crude price of $100 a matter of 'when not if'

H15 Los Angeles Times The green god isn't dead By Paul Taylor

Turning environmentalism into a religion hurts the cause

Bush's best-laid plans ,By Andrew J. Bacevich

Iraq town's safety a matter of discussion

U.S. gave Bhutto intelligence on dangers she faced

Editorial

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