US denies backing Turkey PKK raid
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The US denies it gave permission for Turkish aircraft to carry out strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq.
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Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday there was no evidence that Turkish troops had crossed the Iraqi border to launch a military operation against Turkish rebels hiding in the mountains.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has reiterated support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union, saying it gave the lie to charges that Britain is backing a United States war on Islam.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Saturday to order an incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish guerrillas after the failure of talks with Iraq aimed at averting a cross-border raid.
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The US military denied reports that the coalition in Afghanistan had launched air strikes to quell fighting in the west of the country.
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The United States has denied claims from Pyongyang that North Korea has been taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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At an Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) meeting yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to a question about Cyprus by saying: &quot;Turkey will not withdraw any troops from Cyprus.
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The U.S. military on Thursday denied media reports that its forces had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
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The United States denied it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed. &quot;We don&#39;t conduct business with designated terrorist organisations.
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Turkey expects the United States to take urgent action against Kurdish rebels hiding in northern Iraq, its prime minister said, in comments suggesting Ankara hopes to avoid a Turkish military operation in the region.
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THE IRA today denied any involvement in the Â£22 million raid on the Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast. A senior republican source claimed: &quot;We are dismissing any suggestion or allegation that we were involved.
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Blackwater USA denied Saturday any involvement in illegal weapons smuggling, responding to reports the private security contractor is a target of federal prosecutors.
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Iraq's Kurdish leader refuses to meet the US secretary of state over Washington's stance on raids by Turkey.
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NATO peacekeepers yesterday rejected claims by a top US analyst that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden are using the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia as a training ground and gateway to Europe.
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A former commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has denied a claim by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that US troop had &quot;oursourced&quot; the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan's eastern border region of Tora Bora in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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Turkey's parliament approves military operations against Kurdish separatists in Iraq, defying pressure from the US.
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Senator John Kerry and Raytheon Co. denied yesterday that they colluded to get the US Justice Department to investigate British defense conglomerate BAE Systems PLC.