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Necmettin Erbakan's government faces hold a cliff-hanger vote today on whether to endorse his Islamist-led government which some fear could weaken the country's secular, pro-Western underpinnings.

The annual meeting usually lets the leaders of the seven largest free market democracies discuss their economic policies, but the truck bombing in Saudi Arabia has pushed terrorism to the top of their agenda.

the downing of flight 800 as an act of sabotage, they have all but ruled out every other possibility, and the discovery of the front of the 747 more than a mile from the rest of wreckage tends to support that theory.

is expected to survive a confidence vote in the country's parliament today. On a recent visit to Libya, the country's leader Muammer Gaddafi sharply criticized Erbakan for Turkey's ties to the west and its treatment of its Kurdish minority.

and opponents over a researcher's findings on concealed weapon laws. The study says that the 31 states allowing its citizens to carry concealed guns have a decreased rate of violent crimes.

project to pump sand from the ocean floor back onto the coastline. Beach erosion caused by wind and water from storms, has threatened the city's strong tourism industry.

Democrat Robert Torricelli and Republican Dick Zimmer are running for the seat vacated by the retiring Bill Bradley. The race between the two Congressmen will be important in deciding whether the Republicans will maintain control of the Senate.

of negotiations between a mediation commission and the leftist rebels holding more than 70 hostages in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima -- the first contacts between the two sides in a couple of weeks.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Philip Zelikow about the forthcoming report "Lessons Learned From Covid War: An Investigative Report" by the Covid Crisis Group.

The shock of the recession still lingers in public schools across Kentucky. In fact, the results of a recent report from the Washington D.C. based...