Erdogan’s legacy and the future of Turkey
By Ioannis Tirkides
Erdogan won a third term as Turkey’s president after soundly defeating his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in a run-off election on May 28, with 52.2 per cent of the ...
Grammys bans AI-only music, allows “only human creators”
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Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users – Downdetector
Meta Platforms-ownedMETA.OFacebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users ...
Greg Norman, wife sued for negligence leading to minor’s assault
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Pentagon leak suspect Teixeira to appear in court on Wednesday
The U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top-secret military intelligence records online will appear in a federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday for his arraignment on some of ...
US imposes visa restrictions on Uganda officials after anti-LGBTQ law
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Greece gets new alert about migrant vessel two days after disaster
Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing ...
Canada’s top Court upholds asylum-seeker pact with US to control flow of refugees (Updated)
Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld an asylum-seeker pact between Canada and the United States but sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether the contested ...
Scientists discover duck-billed dinosaur roamed Chile 72 million years ago
A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday.
Scientists have dubbed the ...
Turkish Vice President to visit north on Sunday
The new Vice President of Turkey Cevdet Yilmaz, will make a one-day visit to the north on Sunday.
Turkey’s Vice-Presidential office announced that Yilmaz will visit memorials to Cyprus’...
Blinken heads to Beijing hoping to calm fears of a US-China break
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United Nations, United States ring alarm on West Darfur violence
The United States and United Nations have said the situation in Sudan’s region of West Darfur could herald a repeat of past mass atrocities there as fighting in Sudan ...
Pittsburgh synagogue attacker found guilty of hate crimes
A jury on Friday found Robert Bowers guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes for the killing of 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic ...
Flags lowered, relatives brace for bad news as 15 elders die in Canada crash
Flags flew lowered in the Canadian province of Manitoba on Friday and relatives braced for bad news after 15 mainly elderly people died in one of the country’s worst recent ...
Emotional reunion amid despair as Greece searches for shipwreck survivors
A Syrian teenager who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people off Greece was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other ...
Russia to open consular section offices in Jerusalem -statement
Russia’s embassy in Israel will open offices in Jerusalem to serve its consular section as part of an agreement with the city, the embassy and Israel’s foreign ministry ...
NATO meeting fails to approve first defence plans since Cold War
NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them.
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EU to launch changes to its budget to accommodate Ukraine, new challenges
The European Commission will propose on Tuesday changes to the European Union’s long-term budget to support Ukraine in coming years and deal with higher debt servicing costs for joint ...
Russia, Turkey agree on Putin visit to Turkey ‘soon’ -Ifax cites Kremlin aide
President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed that the Russian leader will visit Turkey “soon”, Interfax cited a Kremlin aide as saying on Friday.
The visit ...
Ethics body accuses UK’s Johnson of new breach for taking newspaper job without vetting
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who quit parliament last week over a finding that he misled lawmakers about COVID lockdown parties, was accused on Friday of a new breach ...
Putin extols Russian economic performance, defends military spending
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Deputy ministry of shipping aims to strengthen ties with Greece
The deputy ministry of shipping wishes to promote joint initiatives with Greece, Deputy Minister Marina Hadjimanoli told the Ambassador of Greece Ioannis Papameletiou, on Friday.
According to official announcement, the ...
Denktash grandson named Turkey’s Warsaw Ambassador
Rauf Alp Denktash, grandson of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Raif Denktash, was named Turkey’s Ambassador to Poland on Friday.
File photo: Rauf Alp Denktash with his grandfather
The ...
Nicosia expects London to play its part on the Cyprus issue
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