News Archive - 13 June 2011

>ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will start a third term of one-party rule strengthened by Sunday's decisive election victory but also burdened by the need for consensus to push ahead with plans for a new constitution. Erdogan will have to focus first on a pressing foreign policy...

>ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has put huge effort into improving ties with its neighbors in the Middle East but the unrest in Syria may force a rethinking of its foreign policy now that Sunday's election is out of the way. Turkey's "zero problems with neighbors" policy has made Ankara into...

> The UAE-flagged oil tanker was bound for Singapore from Sudan when it was seized on March 28. The 105,846 dwt tanker had carried a 29-strong crew. The MV Yuan Xiang was also released last week -- it had been captured last November. * SOCOTRA 1: Seized on December 25,...

>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The father of a man Egypt has arrested as an Israeli spy said Monday his son was a student who volunteered for a U.S. refugee agency and described Egypt's allegations as "totally delusional." Ilan Grapel, a U.S. immigrant to Israel, was detained on Sunday...

> The IMF, which held regular consultations in Iran from May 28 to June 9, said strong growth in non-oil sectors and good performance in agriculture helped the country recover to 3.5 percent growth in 2009-10 despite a fall in oil prices. Iran has achieved "early success in the...