Israel will free between 50 and 60 prisoners in all as part of an agreement worked out last week, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Jordan has suspended security cooperation with Israel and will not restore it until officials responsible for the attempt are dismissed, two Jordanian officials said. Israeli investigators have launched a government inquiry. US special envoy to Cyprus Richard Holbrooke opened talks on the divided island yesterday in Ankara amid heightened tension between Greece and Turkey. Greece has charged at least 60 Turkish fighters with violating its airspace in response to a joint Greek-Cypriot military exercise.
Turkey denies the claim.
The island has been divided since Turkey invaded it in 1974. The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in the Persian Gulf a day after Iran began major naval exercises in the region. Presidents and prime ministers from more than 40 European countries agreed to set up a new court of human rights, ban human cloning, and call for the abolition of the death penalty. The Council of Europe ended its two-day summit in Strasbourg, France, last weekend. Suspected Islamic militants killed 11 policemen in Minya, Egypt, yesterday, security sources said.