IRAN: Iran offers Iraq help with security
TEHRAN (Reuters): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would do whatever it could to help improve security in Iraq, where tensions are running high after the worst bombing since the 2003 United States invasion.
TURKEY: Would-be John Paul assassin asks to meet Pope to discuss religious and mystic issues...
ISTANBUL (Reuters): The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981 wants a day's leave from jail to discuss theology with Pope Benedict when he visits Turkey this week, his lawyer said yesterday.
ISRAEL: Olmert says ready to free Palestinian prisoners...PM reaching out for peace
SDE BOKER, Israel (Reuters): Israel is ready to release many jailed Palestinians in return for a soldier seized by militants in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced yesterday, saying he was reaching out for peace.
Christians in Turkey frustrated by popular mistrust
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters): Christian pastor Behnan Konutgan knows a little about religious tolerance in Turkey. After a life spent translating the Bible into Turkish and defending his faith in a secular country...
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