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Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar warned on Friday that “one tiny mistake” could turn Cyprus into “a new Gaza”. Tatar, not recognized as a head of state by the international community, also suggested that Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan may soon recognize the north. Turkey is the only country that recognizes the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. in an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, said, “A mistake or a misunderstanding such as the shooting of a Turkish soldier on the Green Line… would provoke a bomb between the two populations.” “If you shoot one Turkish soldier, you...

So much for conservatives uniting ahead of Alabama and Mississippi. Newt Gingrich's team just came out with what I believe is its first sharp hit against Rick Santorum of the campaign, a video montage of the former Pennsylvania senator talking earmarks, endorsing Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential race and taking "one for the team," as he memorably put it in the final GOP debate in Arizona last month. If the lines of attack seem familiar, it's because Team Romney - the campaign Gingrich has said he wants to thwart - has been using them against Santorum for weeks. It's...

Judiciary panel OKs appeals court choice Partisan `hackles' lacking at hearing WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee, serious and humorous by turns, approved Michael Chertoff's nomination to an appeals court Thursday after a late allegation and debate that ranged all the way to a disgraced New York Times reporter and McCarthyism. On the good-natured side, a smiling Sen. Charles Schumer D-N.Y., said across the committee table at one point to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, "Lucky for you there aren't two of me." Hatch, the committee chairman who is as conservative as Schumer is liberal, smiled back as he , "It's...