Ankara’s parliament passes incremental changes to Turkey’s notorious “insulting Turkishness†law, but the small reforms leave free speech advocates unsatisfied:
- Turkey’s Parliament Softens Law Restricting Free Speech (Associated Press/Wiredispatch)
Latest incident over who is responsible for four dead Palestinian civilians—an Israeli tank shell or nearby munitions owned by militants—threatens to torpedo fragile cease-fire talks:
- New Gaza Tragedy Threatens Cairo Truce Talks (Christian Science Monitor)
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee seek to finally rein in the FBI’s massive abuses of so-called National Security Letters:
- Heat-Seeking Missives (In These Times)
Increased US-Iraqi military presence in Sadr City leaves 400 dead since Maliki’s failed offensive last month, including 28 killed in the most recent clashes:
- U.S. Role Deepens in Sadr City (Washington Post)
- Baghdad Clashes ‘Leave 400 Dead’ (BBC News)
Pakistani leaders seek to resolve impasse over conditions of how judges deposed under Musharraf’s martial law are to be reinstated before their self-imposed deadline ends…
- Crisis Talks Over Pakistan Judges (BBC News)
…meanwhile despite the failures of Musharraf’s old US-supported military-centric strategy, Washington continues to express alarm over Islamabad’s fresh mix of military, political and economic policies:
- Pakistan’s Planned Accord With Militants Alarms U.S. (New York Times)
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