Word: mediterraneans
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...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...
...arrival in European Union territory of illegal immigrants - and the accompanying tragedies of those who don't make it - ebbs and flows all along the Mediterranean coastline. But several routes have become favorites of the traffickers, both for the relative proximity to the poverty of Africa and for the ability to evade authorities. Beyond Lampedusa, the Canary Islands, part of Spanish territory, continues to be flooded with the arrival of makeshift, precarious boats called cayucos or pateras. In the past three days alone, more than 1,300 immigrants have arrived in the Canaries, mostly from countries like Senegal, Mauritania...