“Turkey will invest $12 billion on developing phases of South Pars offshore gas field in southern Iran and construction of gas pipeline from Assalouyeh to Turkish border,” Hilmi Guler said yesterday.

“We’ve got to play hardball,” says Republican Palin, 44, in an interview.

The blast deals a serious blow to Georgia’s efforts to recover from its ten-day war over South Ossetia in the face of the continuing Russian military presence.

This is a great commercial, made even greater by the fact that the Arab League threatened to boycott Nissan if they didn’t make Israel pull the commercial off the air. What a bunch of drama queens!

In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem halt its military assistance to Georgia, finally threatening a crisis in bilateral relations.

The deal was approved a month before the German chancellor’s March stood up in the Knesset, promised to push for further sanctions against Iran and declared that Israel’s security was “nonnegotiable.”

talks between the US and Iranian delegations, representing President George W. Bush and Iranian supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have yielded ad hoc understandings on controversial issues.

The Saudis are floating a proposed UN Security Council resolution prohibiting Israel from building any housing in Jerusalem.

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