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...French pensioners, Vassort's retirement idyll isn't tucked away along the villa-studded expanses of the Côte d'Azur, or in one of the popular resort towns of Spain's Costa Brava. Instead, Vassort is one of a growing number of European pensioners jumping the Mediterranean to Morocco - and getting much more bang for their euro. "We have a wonderful life in Morocco, so it's easy to understand why more French people are coming to live here," says Vassort, who lives with his wife and lumbering labrador Othello among the serpentine streets of les Oudayas...
...billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water in Greece is really clean ... and the company was very good." Meanwhile a bit farther north, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just wrapped up a notably more austere Mediterranean holiday in the Tuscan coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Prodi could bask in several recent Italian successes on his beach break: a key role in the Lebanon cease-fire, and a merger of Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player...
When four consecutive bombs shook two of Turkey's sun-drenched Mediterranean coastal resorts last week, it was, quite literally, a blast from the past. Turkish authorities attributed the strikes, which left at least three dead and dozens injured (including 10 British tourists), to the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Kurdistan Workers' Party (p.k.k.), a Kurdish separatist group that reached the height of its power some two decades ago. If it is responsible, the p.k.k. is back with an ominous bang. Once one of Turkey's most potent terrorist organizations, the p.k.k. fought a 15-year war with...
...recent weeks, the conflict has threatened to spill over into northern Iraq, one of the last tranquil areas in that country - a fact that may have caught the U.S. military's attention more than the bombings on the Mediterranean coast. Authorities inside Iraq have reported that p.k.k. positions around the Kandil Mountains have been shelled by Iranian and, possibly, Turkish artillery. In July, Turkey moved tanks and reinforcements up to its border with Iraq. Turkey's new army chief, General Yasar Buyukanit, who took office last week, is known for his hawkish views on how best to deal with...
Lebanon is struggling to get back to normal after the summer's war. Central Beirut, whose sidewalk cafes are usually packed with Arab tourists in August, is still a ghost town. But Lebanese families and gaggles of teenagers have reclaimed the promenade along the Mediterranean Sea, escaping the humidity and trading stories about the Hizballah-Israel conflict that recently left so much of their country in ruins...