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Daybreak: Iranian Talks Produce More Talks

Plus Israel and Turkey near deal, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
December 07, 2010
Iranian negotiaor Saeed Jalili and E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.(Anja Niedringhaus/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian negotiaor Saeed Jalili and E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.(Anja Niedringhaus/AFP/Getty Images)

• The Iranian nuclear talks in Geneva concluded with another meeting next month scheduled … and nothing else concretely accomplished. [LAT]

• Also in Geneva, Israeli and Turkish diplomats are near to finalizing a deal that will fully restore diplomatic ties. [Haaretz]

• Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren points to the firefighting aid Israel received from both friends and adversaries as proof that cooperation is possible in the Mideast. [LAT]

• After being shown Israeli intelligence, the United States urged Arab countries not to go along with Iranian smuggling to Hezbollah and Hamas, a WikiLeaks cable reveals. [Haaretz]

• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself over to British authorities over charges of sexual coercion. [NYT]

• Director Claude Lanzmann, 85, discusses the re-release of his masterpiece, Shoah. “I dislike deeply Schindler’s List, for many reasons,” he says. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.