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By , on May 18th, 2013
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Armed men broke into a UN outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three UN military observers, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Thursday. Herve Ladsous said that the unarmed observers were held for about five hours and released unharmed on Wednesday morning. It was the third abduction of UN peacekeepers in the tense region since March and underlined again their vulnerability in the spillover of the conflict in Syria, which is now in its third year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four suspects were arrested in Turkey late on Wednesday in connection with car bombings that killed 51 people in a town near the Syrian border at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. The two bomb blasts in Reyhanli fanned fears that Syria’s civil war is dragging in neighbouring states. Damascus has denied Turkish allegations it was involved in the blasts. Turkish prosecutors sent eight suspects to a court in the southern city of Adana after questioning and the court released four, remanding the other four in custody, the agency said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013
The HS2 rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap and the benefits for the economy are “unclear”, the National Audit Office says.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia yesterday accused the US of “crude and clumsy” spying on its territory after a suspected CIA agent was caught in Moscow seeking to recruit an agent while disguised in a blonde wig. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A growing divide between rich and poor risks will yawn still wider if cash-strapped governments keep cutting back the welfare state, an industrialised nations’ think-tank warned on Wednesday. Weighing into a debate on inequality in developed countries, the 33-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said welfare spending had mitigated an increase in the wealth gap that emerged with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but that was running out. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mike Giglio, on May 13th, 2013 Turkish officials were quick to tie two deadly car bombs to Syria. Mike Giglio reports on the fallout.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taliban insurgent leaders pledged on Monday to release the final four Turkish engineers held hostage since their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan last month. Four other Turkish engineers aboard the helicopter were freed on Sunday, three weeks after the crash in Logar province, a Taliban stronghold south of the capital Kabul. The Taliban said in an emailed statement that the four had been released as a “goodwill, humanitarian gesture and as a sign of respect to the Muslim people of Turkey”. “The other four will be released in the near future,” it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013
The prime minister arrives in Washington for talks with US President Obama as a debate rages within his party about the UK’s EU membership.
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By , on May 13th, 2013
Eurozone finance minsters are due to meet in Brussels later to agree bailout payments for Cyprus and Greece, amid worries over Slovenia.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities have detained nine Turkish citizens believed to have links to the Syrian intelligence agency in connection with two car bombs that left 46 people dead, as Syria rejected allegations the country was behind the attack. The bombings marked the biggest incident of cross-border violence since the start of Syria’s bloody civil war and have raised fear of Turkey being pulled deeper into the conflict. Harsh accusations from both sides signalled a sharp escalation of already high tensions between the two former allies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KAREEM FAHIM and SEBNEM ARSU, on May 12th, 2013 Turkish officials said the nine detained in the bombings that killed 46 people had been linked to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, a claim that Syria denies.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — Turkish deputy PM: 9 people detained in connection with blasts near Syrian border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian minister denies responsibility for Turkey blasts, says Turkey indirectly responsible. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mike Giglio, on May 11th, 2013 The twin blasts appear to be a dramatic spillover of violence from the civil war in Syria.
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Pakistani politician is shot dead
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
Continue reading Pakistani politician is shot dead
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