Spain ready to aid US rapprochement with Muslim nationsISTANBUL - Spain Tuesday announced that it was ready to help the US in reaching out to Muslim countries that President President Barack Obama announced in his speech to the Turkish parliament Monday. Activists fume as World Water Forum ends without protocolsISTANBUL - Environmental activists expressed criticism Sunday with the end result of the World Water Forum, decrying a lack of binding protocols to safeguard the world’s freshwater supplies. World Water Forum opens in TurkeyISTANBUL - The fifth World Water Forum kicked off Monday in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul, aimed to facilitate solutions to the world’s water problems and promote cooperation. Plight of the Kurds forced off their landISTANBUL/ANKARA - Strolling through the beautiful streets of Istanbul’s Beyoglu quarter on the European side of the ancient city, few would know that just a few hundred metres away lies a district where prostitution and the drug trade flower. |