North Africa
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Turkey: The growing power
Gavin Hewitt In the era of awakenings, upheavals and revolutions: watch Turkey. It has become a hugely ambitious country, bristling with self-belief. In a turbulent […]
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Libya foreign minister ‘defects’
Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is in Britain and “no longer willing” to work for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, the Foreign Office says. He […]
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Libya: Turkey’s FM Ahmet Davutoglu outlines policy
in LibyaAs our aircraft rose steeply from the lightless gloom of Baghdad Airport, Ahmet Davutoglu looked down, and reflected. “The people of Iraq suffered a lot,” […]
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Caution: Middle East under construction
Popular uprisings and internecine hostilities will lead to the redrawing of regional maps, which will be a far cry from those underlying the 1916 Sykes-Picot […]
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Obama: History Is Not on Gadhafi’s Side; Libyans Will Determine Own Destiny
Transcript PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Good evening. Tonight, I’d like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya – […]
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Turkey offers to broker Libya ceasefire as rebels advance on Sirte
in LibyaTurkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan challenges western direct action and says prolonged conflict could lead to a ‘second Iraq’ Seumas Milne in Istanbul guardian.co.uk, Sunday […]