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Turkey to build wall on Turkish-Iranian border

Turkey is planning to build a wall along the Turkish-Iranian border as part of measures against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to a high-level official.
“As a precaution against this, we are going to build a wall along 70 kilometers of the border near Ağrı and [the eastern province of] Iğdır, and we will close the rest of it with towers and iron fences. In addition, we are placing lights on the border,” he also said.

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NATO’s Russian troop build-up satellite images ‘show 2013 drills’
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NATO satellite photos show Russian military buildup near Ukraine
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An official in the Russian military general staff said the NATO satellite photographs were taken in August 2013, state-run news agency RIA reported.

“These photographs that were distributed by NATO depict units of Russian forces of the Southern Military District which conducted various exercises last summer, some of them near the border with Ukraine,” RIA quoted what it said was a high-level official in the Russian general staff as saying.

A NATO official responded that the images were from March and April this year and each image showed the date it was taken.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend unilateral moves at UN to give U.S. mediation a chance

News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Barak Ravid

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to suspend all unilateral measures vis-à-vis United Nations agencies to give U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry time to jump-start a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks. This, according to one high-level official on each side. Both men asked not to be identified.

Abbas passed a resolution to this effect at Tuesday’s Fatah Central Committee meeting in Ramallah.

“For a limited and specified period of time a new opportunity will be given to international efforts under way to break the deadlock in the peace process,” the resolution read. It went on to say, “In the event Israel thwarts such efforts, we will again turn to international organizations.”