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Residents prepare for Obama traffic chaos
ISTANBUL-While US President Barack Obama is getting ready to set foot in Istanbul today, local residents are also preparing for two days of traffic nightmares. Presidential visits in the past like Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last summer, as well as Thursday’s rehearsals to meet Obama, have blocked off roads in the city for hours.
Rally around the election banners
ISTANBUL - A week ahead of the March 29 local elections, political parties display how important Istanbul is, as five different rallies are held in Turkey’s biggest city in a single day. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks to tens of thousands in Kazlıçeşme district, while Şişli’s Çağlayan Square becomes the ground for rallies by three opposition parties
UN chief in Israel as hosts bomb UN’s HQ
GAZA CITY- Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters, media buildings and a hospital in the Gaza Strip yesterday, engulfing the buildings in fire, as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel's offensive that has killed at least 1,100 people.
Wars and clashes accompanied by diplomatic efforts in 2008
One of the most significant aspects of 2008 focused on efforts to renew peace talks aimed at finding solutions for many of the World’s decades-long disputes. At the same time however, we also bore witness to fresh conflicts erupting over some of these disputes. A number of significant changes in world leaderships also took place in 2008.
