Turkey is Israel's major regional ally and the two have good military and economic ties. But Turkey's prime minister has been noticeably critical of the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Touring the Mideast recently, he accused Israel of perpetrating "inhuman actions." Is he playing to regional popular sentiment? Or is he redefining the Israeli-Turkish alliance?
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is paying his first official visit to Afghanistan, where he'll meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks expected to focus on how to tackle the Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurgencies in both countries.
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Shocked by dramatic cuts in Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, the EU has gone overnight from low-key diplomacy to angry ultimatums. The bloc's Czech presidency has threatened to call the Russian and Ukrainian presidents to an emergency summit to resolve the pricing dispute behind the shortages.
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