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India and Pakistan in first substantive talks since Mumbai | Reuters - 0 views

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India Pakistan Kashmir

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  • Violent anti-government protests have swept India-controlled Kashmir for almost a month. The region is under an army lockdown.
  • In comments that could reverberate in the talks, Indian officials said the protests may have been incited by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group that Delhi has blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
  • The meeting comes at a time when India has sent in the army to control weeks of violent anti-government protests in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, at the core of its dispute with Pakistan.
Pedro Gonçalves

Russia and U.S. swap spies in Cold War-style exchange | Reuters - 0 views

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US Russia Intelligence

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  • Russian diplomats said the timing of the announcement, just days after Obama and Medvedev's June 24 summit in Washington, could be an attempt by U.S. hardliners to torpedo the so-called reset in ties that Obama has championed.
  • A Kremlin source said Medvedev and Obama's warm relations had allowed the swap deal to be reached so swiftly."This was due to the new spirit set in Russian-American relations and the high level of mutual understanding and trust between the Russian and American presidents that no one will be able to shake," the source said.
Pedro Gonçalves

France's Sarkozy suffers fresh ratings misery | Reuters - 0 views

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France

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  • The TNS Sofres survey for Le Figaro magazine said Sarkozy's approval rating fell two percentage points to 26 percent in June, while 71 percent said they did not trust him.It was Sarkozy's worst reading since he took office in 2007 and was one of the weakest scores ever registered by a French president in recent history.
  • This latest decline in Sarkozy's popularity means he has surpassed his predecessor Jacques Chirac's lowest score of 27 percent. However, he still has some way to go before hitting the all time record low of 22 percent registered by former Socialist president, Francois Mitterrand.
Pedro Gonçalves

Turkey and Israel hold talks on mending fences | Reuters - 0 views

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Israel Turkey

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  • Once Israel's closest Muslim ally, Turkey has said it wants Israel to apologize, pay compensation, agree to a U.N. inquiry into the incident and lift the blockade of 1.6 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
  • The two countries had forged a friendship in the 1990s largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing, though trade also prospered.
Pedro Gonçalves

Fence-mending on agenda for Obama-Netanyahu talks | Reuters - 0 views

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US Israel Israeli Settlements

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  • showcasing a warmer tone toward Netanyahu could be in Obama's political interests, after Washington was angered by Israel's March 9 announcement -- during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden -- of plans to build 1,600 more settler homes in an area of the West Bank it annexed to Jerusalem.
  • With congressional elections looming in November and the president hoping to stave off big losses by his Democratic Party, the president is mindful that support for Israel is strong among lawmakers and voters.
  • One option Netanyahu and Obama may explore is extending beyond September a 10-month Israeli moratorium on new housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a limited freeze agreed under pressure from Obama.
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  • But that could put strain on Netanyahu's governing coalition, which includes a key far-right party, and the Palestinians have given no sign publicly that it would be enough to coax them into more intensive statehood negotiations.
  • For his part, Netanyahu was playing to his own right-wing constituents and Likud party colleagues by insisting that East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their capital, is not included in the West Bank housing start freeze.He declared defiantly on the eve of his previous talks with Obama, that Jerusalem, which Israel considers its capital, is "not a settlement." But no new Jewish homes have been built in East Jerusalem or Palestinian dwellings demolished in months.
  • Most recently, a planning commission in Israel's Jerusalem municipality approved a park project in which 22 Palestinian homes, built without permits that Palestinians say are impossible to obtain, are due to be razed.However, amid international condemnation of the park project, city officials say the demolitions are not imminent.
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