Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was headed Sunday for talks in Washington with US President Barack Obama, stopping first in Turkey, amid heightened regional tensions after a deadly Israeli raid on an aid boat. The Anatolia news agency said Abbas would meet President Abdullah Gul on Monday and attend on Tuesday the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). He was also to pay his condolences over the deaths of eight Turkish activists and a...
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