| Turkey Takes an Ambitious New Path Ankara mightily irritated the big powers last week by brokering a uranium exchange deal with Iran. Its new foreign policy is resulting in a more independent Turkey. nytimes.com |
Tax-Exempt Funds Aiding West Bank Settlements As the United States seeks to end a four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them. feeds.nytimes.com |
Much Still Unsettled as Ambassador Leaves Iraq Christopher R. Hill is leaving as ambassador with an American military withdrawal under way but a big task incomplete: the formation of a government. feeds.nytimes.com |
An Aid Worker Writes From Afghanistan Within moments of realizing that my colleagues had been killed, I'd begun the extremely common rethinking of risk management that every civilian aid worker has developed out of necessity. feeds.nytimes.com |
New Web Life for the Dead Sea Scrolls The Israel Antiquities Authority is collaborating with Google on uploading newly digitized images of the closely guarded 2,000-year-old biblical and apocryphal texts. feeds.nytimes.com |