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...about common grounds, and maybe there are certain fundamentally different things in today’s Turkey. Why should this fact be so hard to digest?Homogenization is not an idyllic goal: multiculturalism is not about tolerating dissidence, but welcoming it, and there is a Bosporus Strait between those terms. European powers should stay true to their illuminated Constitutions and embrace other values. More time is needed before Turkey can secure membership in the EU, and not to allow further conformist demands to be placed upon the Turkish people. Rather, time is needed to overcome despicable vetoes like Austria?...
...that the clan has a lucrative new financial target in its sights. Earlier this month, a general contractor was chosen to build what will be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge to connect Calabria to Sicily. Antimob investigators say the criminal networks on both sides of the Strait of Messina are hungrily eyeing the j5.7 billion project in hopes of a slice. The local strength and worldwide reach of 'Ndrangheta is a bit hard to imagine amid the dilapidated piazzas and alleyways of Plati, a small town perched in the jagged hillside above Locri. The municipality...
...back doors of houses minutes before police arrived, and he was once waved on by a policeman who had stopped to check motorcyclists leaving a bombing site; the officer failed to recognize Azahari. The string of narrow misses continued on Friday when police in East Java, across the Bali Strait, said they had likewise missed capturing Nurdin by a few hours. According to local press reports, police were certain of his whereabouts but waited several hours before raiding the house because they were "worried he was armed with explosives." This record of failures illustrates a key problem facing Indonesia...
...tangible assets--because the Taiwanese tech sector was crushed. He also likes BIL International, a Singapore-listed company that owns thousands of acres in Hawaii that it may or may not succeed in developing, a hotel chain in London and oil and gas royalties from the Bass Strait. The stock trades for at least 30% less than its value by his "ultraconservative" appraisal. Then there's Liu Chong Hing Investments, which owns an exceptionally well-financed Hong Kong bank, as well as property in mainland China. The stock, listed in Hong Kong, trades at a 35% discount...
...central theme of their conversation will probably focus on security and stability in the west Pacific in view of the joint military exercise by Russia and China. But as the leader of the opposition party in Taiwan, I certainly would like to see more stability across the Taiwan Strait...