This is believed to be the case with many other senior defectors, our correspondent adds.
Ms. MOLLY MOORE (Paris Correspondent, Washington Post): Happy to be with you.
The old-fashioned landmark was thought to be more in keeping with the surrounding architecture, BBC Rome correspondent Alan Johnston reports.
But foreign policy and bilateral trade issues would be at the heart of formal talks with the government, our correspondent added.
"As we are here in England, and dealing with the language of business, every word needs to be analysed with great care, " the newspaper's British correspondent writes.
Your correspondent, the only foreign journalist with official permission to be in Lhasa (which was applied for and granted well before the unrest erupted) is still allowed to remain.
The Americans and their Iraqi guards were to be debriefed in Kuwait, said CNN correspondent Bob Franken, who is embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
The BBC's Washington correspondent says American officials fear that with such notable absentees, there will be a hardening of attitudes at the talks.
Phil Holland, news correspondent with sports business experts Sportcal.com, believes the game could soon be up for Kournikova as a marketable asset.
Mr. RONALD KESSLER (Chief Washington Correspondent, Newsmax.com): I just cannot visualize how anybody could be close friends with someone, not to mention going to these sermons, unless he did, in fact, agree with some of those comments.
Vatican observers will be watching to see what sort of relationship he is able to establish with young Catholics, our correspondent says.
The terms had to be agreed with Israel under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, our correspondent says.
Previous prime ministers such as Bob Hawke and Paul Keating established the first ties with Asia, but the new policy would be deeper and more organised, adds our correspondent.
However, he is expected to spend his retirement in a monastery at the Vatican and his relationship with his successor as pope is bound to be an endless source of speculation, our correspondent adds.
Court proceedings in the Gaza Strip are not held in public, and defendants are identified only by their initials, so it can be difficult event to match announcements of executions even with previous news of arrests or convictions, our correspondent says.
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In his interview with BBC Scotland political correspondent Glenn Campbell, Mr Lajcak also said he thought it would be "terrible" if the UK were to leave the European Union.
It may have to be pumped into Europe through Turkey, providing Cyprus with an economic lifeline and a chance for reconciliation, our correspondent says.
Our correspondent added the way in which the changes went down with the public in the coming months would be absolutely critical to the government's reputation.
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However, a culture of accountability is beginning to emerge, our correspondent adds, and as Greeks battle with austerity, there is a growing clamour for politicians to be held responsible for their actions.
Staff at the three broadcasters said their computers crashed and could not be restarted, with screens simply displaying an error message, although they have continued to make television broadcasts, our correspondent said.
That proved to be a flop (even back in the day, our correspondent related to me how difficult the acquirer was to deal with) which Fosters, with all due awareness, compounded in swallowing Southcorp in 2005.
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