November, 2007

• 7 November

  Prodi Opposes Military Action against Iran

  Italy opposes any military action against Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program because such an attack could destabilize the entire Middle East, Italian Premier Romano Prodi said Tuesday.

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• 7 November

  Iran Reopens Two Consulates in Iraq’s Kurdish Region

  Iran reopened two consulates on Tuesday in the cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniyah in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, which were closed after US troops raided the one in Erbil and abducted five Iranians in January.

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• 7 November

  Turkey seeks arrest of rebel commanders

  The jailed chief of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels remains a powerful symbol for fighters who revere him with a personality cult. But the guerrilla lieutenants who plot tactics from bases in northern Iraq are coming under increasing scrutiny as Turkey presses Iraq and the United States for their arrest.

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• 7 November

  46,000 Iraqis back in October

  The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month, an Iraqi government spokesman said Wednesday.

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• 7 November

  US agree to build ‘communication channels’ against PKK

  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed Monday to establish an “operational coordination” system that will provide better communication to combat the

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• 7 November

  Bulgarian Ombudsman office only institution without connections to former secret services

  The Commission for declassification of the secret services archives of Bulgaria has so far found 620 former communist secret service agents, member of the commission Ekaterina Boncheva said. The only institution where there were no members connected to

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• 7 November

  Israel accuses IAEA chief of playing into Iran’s hands

  Campaigning for tougher sanctions on Tehran, Israel went on the offensive Tuesday against the UN nuclear watchdog, accusing its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, of playing into Iran’s hands over its atomic program. The campaign comes with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) poised to publish a new report on

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• 7 November

  Turkey’s EU Accession Process: 2007 Progress Report

  Good news: Turkey is on its best way to sufficiently fulfill the Copenhagen political criteria which concern the insurance of democratic standards, the compliance of the rule of law, and the implementation of fundamental rights.

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• 7 November

  Saudi king holds historic talks with pope

  Pope Benedict XVI raised the issue of Christians living in Saudi Arabia in a historic meeting Tuesday with King Abdullah, the first monarch of the conservative Muslim kingdom to visit the Vatican. During their talks, which also touched on conflicts in the Middle East, the pope

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• 7 November

  Lebanese may have to wait a little more for new president

  Speaker Nabih Berri declared on Tuesday that the upcoming parliamentary session to elect the next head of state would likely be postponed, as senior Arab League official Hisham Youssef arrived in Beirut for two days of consultations with rival leaders. “As we near the deadline for a new president, it …

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