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China’s leaders vow to punish Xinjiang rioters
URUMQI - China’s top leaders vow to maintain stability in the riot-hit Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region and promise punishment to those responsible for bloodshed. The statement comes as residents in Urumqi tentatively emerge to go about daily life after the worst ethnic violence in decades.
No breakthrough from Obama’s Russia summit
MOSCOW - While the US president ends his keynote visit to Moscow and arrives in Italy for the G-8 summit, his two-day meeting yields no stunning progress as the two ex-Cold War enemies remain at odds on various disputed issues. After the Russia trip, he joins fellow world leaders for the G-8 meet where the global crisis, climate change and world hunger top agenda.
China president skips G-8 after Uighur unrest
URUMQI, China - China pours troops into the restive city of Urumqi in a massive show of force, but violence flares again as mobs of Han Chinese wielding makeshift weapons hunt for Muslim Uighurs. The violence forced Chinese president to embarrassingly cut short a trip to Italy where he is set to take part in a G-8 summit. An exiled Uighur leader blames Beijing for the riots, rejecting allegations that she is to blame for instigating the violence.
Turkey and the US unites through love of countries
ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.
A breakthrough urged in Nabucco
ISTANBUL - A EU official says an imminent breakthrough looms on the draft of the text that will lay the legal framework for the Nabucco pipeline project.Turkey says talks are underway on several key issues. Meanwhile, Gazprom says Europe should avoid trying to diversify sources of natural-gas imports
EU sees imminent deal on Nabucco, Turkey says talks underway
ISTANBUL - A European Union official said on Friday that an imminent breakthrough looms on the draft of the text that will lay the legal framework for the Nabucco pipeline project, however Turkey said talks are underway on several key issues. (UPDATED)
A role for Turkey France can accept
PARIS - On the European stage, Turkey is often on the sharp end of the wit. This is perhaps no more true anywhere than in France, where President Sarkozy’s opposition to Turkey’s EU aspirations is unmistakable. Offstage, however, France knows Turkey’s role is more central to the success of the whole troupe, as one top Sarkozy adviser reveals in an interview.
Iranian opposition leader Mousavi calls for a new rally Thursday
TEHRAN - Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge to the country’s supreme leader and cleric-led system Wednesday, calling for a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers. (UPDATED)
Iran election body rules out annulment, ready for partial recount
ISTANBUL - Iran's top legislative body on Tuesday ruled out annulling a disputed presidential poll that has prompted the biggest street protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution but said it was prepared for a partial recount. (UPDATED)
Defiant Iran opposition stages huge rally in Tehran amid world outcry
ISTANBUL - Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi appeared in public on Monday for the first time since the election that has divided the nation, joining thousands of supporters who defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran. (UPDATED)
