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• Battle kills 15 Turkish troops, 23 Kurdish rebels
ANKARA, Turkey - Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southern Turkey and northern Iraq has killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between the longtime enemies ...
• The stunning collapse of Iceland
While the country had a large current account deficit, they said, comparing it to emerging economies such as Thailand or Turkey was misguided. But as Frederic S. Mishkin, a professor at Columbia University and a former economist with the Federal ...
• French author Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel
Of the other four, one was from Turkey and the others from South Africa, China and Trinidad. All had strong ties to Europe. The last U.S. writer to win the prize was Toni Morrison in 1993. "The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate ...
• Greece plans housing facility for immigrants
For years illegal immigrants have gravitated toward Patras, a major maritime hub where many hope to smuggle themselves onto ships or ship-bound trucks. In the past most migrants in Patras were Kurds from Turkey and Iraq, but today they are all Afghans ...
• Iran forces down Hungarian plane
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency had initially reported that the plane was American and was carrying five military officials and three civilians from Turkey to Afghanistan when it was forced by the Iranian air force to land at an airport for ...