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To play, go to: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlz88Ifcha79I1&req=l%3D1hlz87Ifcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chancellor Merkel arrives in Turkey German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in the Turkish capital, Ankara, where she is to meet with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials. The chancellor was expected to address Ankara's bid to join the European Union. Merkel said it was important for Turkey to stay by its obligations and completely fulfill EU membership criteria. She said resolving the dispute with Cyprus dispute was also key in Turkey's relations with the EU. However, Turkey reaffirmed on Thursday that it would not open its ports to Cyprus before the EU lifted a trade embargo against Turkish Cypriots. The comments put Ankara remained on a collision course with Brussels. NATO expands across Afghanistan NATO has taken over command of 12,000 more US troops in Afghanistan. They had previously been under the command of the US-led coalition. The move brings the number of soldiers serving in the International Security Assistance force to more than 30,000. Speaking at the hand-over ceremony at NATO headquarters in Kabul, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Richards, said the addition of US troops would help make ISAF more effective. Eight thousand other US soldiers in the east of the country remain under US command. Germany also has a force of around 2,800 troops based the north of the country. Rice pays surprise visit to Iraq U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has flown into Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit. Rice has been on a tour of the Middle East, having already visited Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. It is believed she will hold meetings with Iraqi government officials, including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. US military denies killing al-Masri The US military has denied reports that it had killed al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri. A US military spokesman said they had originally thought he may have been among those killed in a raid, but they now believed that this was unlikely. The statement followed earlier reports in Arabic-language media indicating that al-Masri had been killed. Abbas hints at new government Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says talks with the militant group Hamas aimed at forming a unity government along with his Fatah Party are dead and that he may dissolve the Hamas-led government. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Abbas said that if agreement wasn't reached soon, all options were on the table. Rice told reporters that the US would step up efforts to improve the conditions of the Palestinian people and press Israel to ease the closure of Gaza border crossings. Rice later met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose office quoted him as telling her Israel planned to open its main commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip soon. 2 rockets aim at Pakistani parliament In Islamabad, bomb disposal experts have defused two rockets that were aimed at Pakistan's parliament. The rockets, which had mobile phones attached to them, were found near bushes about 750 meters away from the National Assembly on Thursday morning. President General Pervez Musharraf was addressing a conference about two kilometers away at the time. In a separate incident, authorities are investigating a powerful explosion near Musharraf's home late Wednesday. Despite official denials, the media is speculating that Musharraf was being targeted. He survived two assassination attacks in December 2003. Washington warns North Korea The United States says it will not tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea. US Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill told reporters in Washington that Pyongyang needed to decide between having a future or having nuclear weapons. North Korea, which claims to have nuclear weapons, said earlier this week that it was planning to conduct its first nuclear test. The Foreign Ministry of China, which is the closest North Korea has to an ally, has called for restraint on all sides. Migrants rescued off Canaries A group of migrants rescued off the Canary islands by a South African freighter say 20 other occupants of their small boat drowned as it broke up in high seas. The survivors are the latest of 25,000 Africans to reach the Spanish islands in bids to escape poverty and enter Europe. Police say the survivors comprise seven adults and four children. In Luxembourg EU justice and interior ministers are debating how to stem the flow of migrants from western Africa. Spain has demanded more EU funding for patrols. The ministers are also reviewing steps to set up a common immigration policy by 2010. Reinhardt picked as Swedish premier Sweden's parliament has elected centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfeldt as the country's new prime minister. Aged 41, he becomes Sweden's youngest premier since 1926. He replaces Goran Persson whose Social Democrats heavily lost elections three weeks ago, despite a booming economy. Parliament elected Reinhardt by 175 to 169. His Moderate Party, which is one of four parties in an election winning alliance, is expected to take most of the cabinet posts. It's pledged to fine-tune Sweden's welfare model by lowering state ownership in big companies. He'll formally take power on Friday. Possible threat against U.N. in Geneva Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a possible threat against its European headquarters in Geneva. A U.N. spokeswoman said, however, that no information had been provided about the possible authors or the means to be used. She said security had been stepped up at the sprawling Palais des Nations campus but that work and meetings were continuing as usual. Ryanair says plans to buy Aer Lingus Europe's biggest budget airline, Ryanair, say it plans to make a 1.5 billion euro bid for Aer Lingus. The air carrier also said in a statement that it had already bought a 16 percent stake in the rival Irish airline. Ryanair said it planned to offer 2.8 euros a share in cash for Aer Lingus. That's a 27 percent premium to Aer Lingus's flotation price of 2.2 euros. Aer Lingus made its debut on the Dublin and London stock markets on Monday. ECB raises rates to five-year high The European Central Bank has raised its key interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point. The ECB raised its central refinancing rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.25 percent at its regular monthly policy-setting meeting in Paris. It was the fifth rate increase since December. Poland's Walesa undergoes surgery in Italy Lech Walesa, founder of Poland's Solidarity movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has undergone minor heart surgery in a Milan hospital. The Polish embassy in Italy said the operation was successful and the 63-year-old Walesa, a former Polish president, had already left the country. The embassay said the surgery had been planned and was not an emergency. German-Romanian author Pastior dies Tributes have been made for Oskar Pastior, a prize-winning Romanian- born German writer, who died in Frankfurt overnight while visiting its annual book fair. Pastior was 78. He had been due later this month to receive a German literary award, the Georg Buchner Prize. German culture minister Bernd Neumann described Pastior as "one of the most significant writers of our time" who had re-explored the German language across the continent. Pastior grew up in Sibiu, a German-speaking part of Romania, and fled to West Germany in 1968. He settled in Berlin. 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