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• Turkey's military attacks rebels in northern Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish warplanes attacked a group of Kurdish rebels, including senior commanders, in northern Iraq on Sunday, the military said, in another cross-border raid in retaliation for a guerrilla attack that killed 17 soldiers. The ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Body of Lies’ deserves a swift burial
... Abutbul), Ferris and Hoffman take an innocent Jordanian architect and use internet chatter and phony bank transactions to make him look like the hot new jihadist on the block. After the CIA guys create a fake bombing on an American base in Turkey ...