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U.S. Congress OKs sale of F-16 warplanes to Turkey
XINHUA
According to the report, the Pentagon on Sept. 28 notified the Congress of the planned sale, worth up to 2.9 billion U.S. dollars, and no congressional objection has been raised within the formal waiting period of two weeks. This means that all U.S. agencies have confirmed the sale and that the rest depends on negotiations between related ...
Talabani backs 'Iran-Syria plan'
BBC WORLD SERVICE
Violence in Iraq could end "within months" if Iran and Syria joined efforts to stabilise the country, says Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Turkey does not plan French boycott after Armenia genocide vote
AFP
Turkey does not plan to boycott French products after French deputies backed a bill making it a crime to deny that massacres of Armenians were genocid...
A Grab Bag of Postmodern Literary Devices Helps Shape Orhan Pamuk's Career
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Orhan Pamuk, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, is much better known in this country than many recent winners, because most of his books have actually been published and widely reviewed here. It also does not hurt that he recently got himself in political hot water in his native Turkey and then became a cause célèbre. In a 200...
China reluctant to back Korea sanctions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
China appeared to shy away Thursday from backing U.S. efforts to impose a travel ban and financial sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test, saying any U.N. action should focus on bringing its communist neighbor back to talks. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said North Korea should understand it had made a mi...
Israeli Forces Admits: 1.2 Million Cluster Bombs on Lebanon
WORLD BULLETIN
An IOF commander has admitted that his army's air force had dropped around 1.2 million internationally-banned cluster bombs on.
Japan announces new sanctions against N.Korea
REUTERS
Japan announced on Wednesday it would impose new sanctions on North Korea over this week's reported underground nuclear blast, while the reclusive com...
655,000 Iraqis dead because of war, study finds
CNN INTERNATIONAL
War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports.
North Korea Says It Will Consider US Pressure as Declaration of War
VOA NEWS
North Korea says it will consider continued pressure from the United States to be a declaration of war.
Japan announces N Korea sanctions
BBC
Japan is to impose tough new sanctions against North Korea in response to the North's claimed nuclear test.
South Korea Says North May Be Preparing Another Nuclear Test
VOA
A North Korean television announcer reads a statement from Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry saying the United Nations sanctions against it "cannot be construed otherwise than as an act of war." The statement also says North Korea "wants peace but is not afraid of war," and "wants dialogue but is always ready for confrontation." After North Korea...

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