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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Tehran is ready to continue nuclear diplomacy with world powers before or after the June presidential election in Iran, its chief negotiator said on Thursday. `We are ready to continue our talks with the (six powers)whenever they are ready, before or after the presidential election in Iran... Talks will take place soon,` Saeed Jalili told a news conference. Jalili was speaking after a meeting in Istanbul with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who oversees talks with Iran on behalf of the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany. ...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:19 |
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 03:13 |
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Disgruntled Bulgarian truck drivers blocked traffic at two major border checkpoints with neighboring Turkey on Friday to protest against what they said were Turkish restrictions to their operations. Among those caught up in the blockade, now in its second day, was British band Depeche Mode, which was forced to cancel its concert in Istanbul on Friday because trucks carrying equipment from Bulgaria could not get through. A queue 12 km long had built up at the main Kapitan Andreevo crossing and another around 5.5 km long at the Lesovo checkpoint. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 18:59 |
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ISTANBUL (AP) Iran`s chief nuclear negotiator says Tehran and the six world powers will resume talks on its nuclear program `in the near future.`
Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:59 |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Four suspects were arrested in Turkey late on Wednesday in connection with car bombings that killed 51 people in a town near the Syrian border at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. The two bomb blasts in Reyhanli fanned fears that Syria`s civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus has denied Turkish allegations it was involved in the blasts. Turkish prosecutors sent eight suspects to a court in the southern city of Adana after questioning and the court released four, remanding the other four in custody, the agency said. ...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 06:41 |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the killers of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy, paving the way for a retrial of the case that has gripped the nation for years. Judges in Ankara overturned a lower criminal court`s 2012 judgment that only two people, now serving prison sentences, were behind the 2007 murder, Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family, told Reuters. `We have strong evidence that state officials were involved in the conspiracy, and that evidence is even in the prosecutor`s report... ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 17:18 |
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By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran faces international pressure in two separate meetings over its nuclear program on Wednesday, but with the Islamic state focused more on a June presidential election no breakthrough is expected in the dispute. In Vienna, the U.N. nuclear agency will once again urge Iran to stop stonewalling its investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by Tehran, which denies any intent to make such weapons. The talks are due to start around 10 a.m. (0400 ET). ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 00:09 |
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Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba hits back at the racists who abused him in Sunday`s heated Istanbul derby against Fenerbahce.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 14:49 |
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria`s opposition coalition will meet in Istanbul on May 23 to decide whether to participate in a U.S. and Russian-sponsored conference to try to end the Syrian civil war, coalition officials said on Sunday. The conference will also elect a new head of the Western and Gulf-backed coalition, and discuss the fate of provisional prime minister Ghassan Hitto, who has come under heavy criticism, the sources said.
Sunday, May 12, 2013 16:55 |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Four of the eight Turks captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan last month have been freed and handed to Turkey`s intelligence agency, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Eight Turkish engineers, an Afghan and two pilots from Russia and Kyrgyzstan were onboard a Russian Mi-8 helicopter when it made a `hard landing` in a remote part of Logar province due to bad weather in April. They were taken captive by the Taliban, which controls the area. (Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Sunday, May 12, 2013 15:52 |
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