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...Iran to get the bomb. But officials on both sides of the Atlantic are pessimistic about a deal with Tehran that could prevent it from developing the capacity to build a nuclear weapon. "We're giving it another try, but there's a lot of skepticism," says one European diplomat. After G-8 members met last week to devise a package of inducements and threats, reports emerged that Britain, France and Germany would offer Tehran new trade talks and access to Russian nuclear fuel, if the country halted its nuclear ambitions. Tehran appeared to reject the move. The Europeans...
...United Nations administration backed by an 18,000-strong NATO peacekeeping force, with assistance from an the Kosovo Assembly. But with conflicts brewing around the world, the U.N. and NATO are now looking to get out, and fast. In a recent U.N. report, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat, said the U.N. needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities...
...that's Sihanouk's plan, it appears to be working. Last week Hun Sen and Ranariddh signed a letter agreeing that Sihamoni, a diplomat and former ballet dancer, should eventually take the throne. Sihanouk, it seems, may have one more major role to play: kingmaker...
...keep pressure on Turkey to press on with reforms once talks begin. A last-minute public revolt could, theoretically, produce a veto in December; Turkish officials are most worried about France and Austria. But French President Jacques Chirac says he still backs talks and Austria, according to diplomats, is not likely to stand alone. Rejection now, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told TIME, would seriously damage Europe's credibility and "fuel hostility toward Europe across the Islamic world." Still, the dire warnings have stoked disenchantment in Western Europe - and forced Turks to explain themselves - again. "We are not talking about...
Even before 1966, when Charles de Gaulle pulled his country out of NATO's integrated military command structure, France had a complex relationship with the Atlantic alliance. Since then, it retains a seat at the table in diplomatic and political terms, but doesn't take part in defense planning. President Jacques Chirac demonstrated France's diffident stance in 1999 by intervening in the setting of targets during the NATO air campaign against Serbia, and again last year by leading efforts to block the dispatch of air-defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable...