The Turkish prime minister said that Turkey and the International Monetary Fund jointly decided not to sign a stand-by arrangement.

Turkey welcomed on Wednesday the decision to resume indirect peace talks between Palestine and Israel, Anadolu news agency said.

The embassy has denied reports that Washington may open another military base in Kyrgyzstan

Parliament on Monday approved the outlines of Ahmadinejad's 2010/11 budget.

Turkey and South Korea signed on Wednesday a cooperation protocol to establish a nuclear energy power plant in the northern Turkish province of Sinop.

Myanmar's ruling junta has announced a new election law that disqualifies opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama voiced his support for Uighurs.

Torrential rains that have battered central Mozambique for weeks have raised water levels in the Cahora Bassa, a major dam on the Zambezi river.

The special security law will be imposed from March 11 to March 23 in Bangkok and surrounding areas.

Russia arrested 10 men, held in a raid that killed a prominent insurgent last week, as suspects in a deadly November train bombing.

Eritrea accused the United States of trying to destabilise the Horn of Africa nation, local media reported.

Gunmen stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 6 workers in an attack blamed on insurgents.

Pakistan's prime minister has extended the term of the head of the country's main intelligence agency by a year

Babacan said there were 160 companies, with Korean capital, operating in Turkey.

Turkey's economy minister did not see a necessity of a deal with the International Monetary Fund's money to dig its way out of a global recession.

Turkish people have spent $27.5 billion for 135 million mobile phone handsets sold in Turkey since 1994, either registered or unregistered, a study showed.

The Turkish minister said two countries could cooperate in contracting, ship construction, defense industry and banking.

Israeli plans to build 1,600 more houses on occupied land that came hours after the arrival of Biden led a sharply worded censure.

The Treasury said it invited an IMF team to Ankara after the fund and World Bank Spring meetings on April 24-25 for the regular Article IV consultations.

Albanian Defense Minister Arben Imami met with Turkish National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul in Ankara on Wednesday.

Quarterly industrial employment index decreased by 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

A group of Turkish officials from Energy Ministry are currently in Moscow for talks with Russian officials.

The IMF said a mission would travel to Turkey for annual consultations on the economy.

U.S. Foreign Policy magazine included Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in its world's four Kissingers list. .

European Civil Aviation Conference Executive Board assigned Turkey as coordinator country on Europe's civil aviation trainings.

Turkey owes nearly eight billion USD of debt to IMF.

Turkey's prime minister was presented with the "King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam" at a ceremony held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera said.

Several other senior Turkish and Georgian officials, including ministers, were also present at the ceremony.

Albanian and Kyrgyz statesmen offered their condolences for victims of a 6-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey's eastern Elazig province on Monday.

The Turkish foreign minister left for Ireland on Tuesday on a formal visit.

The Turkish Cypriot prime minister said on Tuesday that Cyprus negotiations would continue after presidential election in their country.

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay was in Berlin to attend the 44th International Tourism Bourse.

The secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) travelled to Britain on Tuesday.

AnadoluJet would launch direct flights to the Swedish capital of Stockholm and Danish capital of Copenhagen on June 1, 2010, THY's executives said.

These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on March 10, 2010. The World Bulletin does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Preliminary results from Iraq's parliamentary election will be released, an electoral commission official said

United Nations human rights investigators called on U.S. administration to prosecute the accused Sept. 11 attacks in a civilian court.

Russian President Medvedev urged Sweden to extradite two men it says are Chechen fighters.

Greece's new austerity package has driven a wedge between private and public sector workers.