Yahoo!:U.S. watchdog says Kazakhstan violating OSCE values (Reuters)
Reuters - A U.S. media group has criticized Kazakhstan for effectively banning an opposition newspaper, saying the move violated the core values of Europe's main democracy watchdog, chaired by Kazakhstan this year.
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Yahoo!:Turkey sees positive signs for Israel-Syria talks (Reuters)
Reuters - Syria has said it is ready to restart peace talks with Israel mediated by Turkey, and there are some positive signals from the Israeli side, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
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rferl.org:Turkey Envoy Not Back In U.S. Until 'Clear' Armenia Signal
 Turkey has said it will not send its ambassador back to Washington until it gets a "clear sign" on the fate of a U.S. resolution branding the 1915-era killings of Armenians by Turkish forces as "genocide."
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Yahoo!:Turkey quake kills 51 as villagers sleep (AFP)

A man stands among debris in front of a destroyed house in the village of Okcular. A powerful pre-dawn earthquake buried sleeping villagers in remote eastern Turkey, claiming at least 51 lives and leaving dozens injured, officials said.(AFP)AFP - A powerful pre-dawn earthquake buried sleeping villagers in remote eastern Turkey Monday, claiming at least 51 lives and leaving dozens injured, officials said.



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rferl.org:Sweden Jails Uyghur Chinese Man For Spying
 Sweden has sentenced a Uyghur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uyghur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed today.
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Yahoo!:Sweden jails Uighur Chinese man for spying (Reuters)
Reuters - Sweden has sentenced a Uighur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed Monday.
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AP:Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51
 OKCULAR, Turkey (AP) -- Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people....
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Yahoo!:Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51 (AP)

A man shows his destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Monday, March 8, 2010, hours after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey eaarly Monday, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, the government said. The quake affected villages near the town of Kovancilar, toppling stone or mud-brick homes and minarets of mosques, officials and media reports said. The worst-hit area was the village of Okcular where some 17 people were reported killed and homes crumbled into piles of dirt.(AP Photo )AP - Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people.



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AP:Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51
 OKCULAR, Turkey (AP) -- A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said....
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Yahoo!:Report: Turkey to again mediate Syria-Israel talks (AP)
AP - A news report quotes the Turkish prime minister as saying Israel has accepted that Turkey will again mediate talks with Syria.
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AP:Quake exposes poor construction in Turkey
 OKCULAR, Turkey (AP) -- The Turkish government acknowledges that homes in eastern areas prone to earthquakes are not resilient to jolts like the magnitude 6 temblor that toppled houses and killed 51 people this week....
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AP:Quake exposes poor construction in Turkey
 OKCULAR, Turkey (AP) -- Homes in eastern areas of Turkey prone to earthquakes must be better built to withstand jolts like the magnitude 6 temblor that toppled village houses and killed 51 people this week, the Turkish government acknowledged Tuesday....
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AP:Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
 First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot....
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