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...North's isolation eases, Turkish Cypriot leaders concede that their territory has fallen into ill repute. "Mistakes were made," Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ferdi Soyer told TIME by e-mail. "We are determined to clean up our country and remove all these people who have done bad things." A settlement, if it materializes, would probably lead to tougher regulations and extradition treaties. Dervis Deniz, a former Economy Minister of the North, says it's high time: "The longer we stay isolated, the longer we attract the cowboys and gangsters...
...news is that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda may ask Hu for a new panda. (Japan has eight pandas on loan from China.) The sad passing of Ling Ling could thus become an opportunity for the Chinese President to dramatically improve ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already getting the full VIP treatment during his May 6 to 10 tour. Hu will meet with Fukuda, then with the Emperor and Empress, and visit Yokohama's Chinatown as well as the historic city of Nara and the financial center of Osaka. Symbolically, it is already an important trip...
...conservative candidate's runaway victory Monday night comes two weeks after center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi swept back into the Prime Minister's office by roundly defeating Walter Veltroni, who had served the past six years as Rome mayor. When he took up his campaign for national office, Veltroni passed the capital's center-left baton back to Rutelli, who had been a popular mayor through the 1990s. Rutelli, a vice-premier and high-profile culture minister under the recently folded government of Romano Prodi, had been strongly favored to defeat the center-right upstart in the Rome race...
...first-time Eleganza model. The spectacle lasted over two hours, but a large portion of the audience left after the catwalk modeling during the performance of “Bed” singer J. Holiday. An added bonus for those in the VIP section, besides the prime seats, were the gift bags, which included discount coupons, shirts from Jack Wills, the British outfitter, and Vitamin Water. Audience members said that this year’s Eleganza was well worth the $12-$15 price tag. “I especially liked the fact that, from what I could see, all ethnicities...
...sprawling Shi'ite slum of Sadr City against the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "The roads into Sadr City were laden with mines and IEDs," he said, adding that three entrances into the besieged Mahdi Army stronghold had now been opened. The General added that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has designated $100 million for the neighborhood's reconstruction once the fight is finally over. But despite that progress report, the American-backed Iraqi forces are still bogged down by a resource-consuming battle with the Mahdi Army across stretches of the militia's vast east...