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Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday after a week of the biggest protests to hit Turkey in over a decade, defying a crackdown that has seen almost 1,500 arrested including an AFP journalist. The demonstrations erupted after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, the main political rival […]
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Several European countries and Canada have alerted their citizens about tightened restrictions for travellers entering the United States, warning they risk arrest if caught breaching new requirements under President Donald Trump. Among the measures, travellers who have changed sex or identified themselves as non-binary with an X on their passports could face detention or expulsion […]
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No deal emerged from Washington’s talks with both Kyiv and Moscow in Saudi Arabia Tuesday on any ceasefire after three years of fighting, with Russia demanding that the US “order” Kyiv to enter a new deal on the Black Sea. US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to Russia’s invasion and had […]
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The Trump administration is dealing with the fallout of a stunning security breach that allowed a journalist to read exchanges between senior officials in a group chat on the Signal messaging app. The group’s members, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, talked about strikes on Yemen’s Huthi rebels hours before they […]
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Seven journalists detained for covering the mass protests that have gripped Turkey were granted conditional release Tuesday as the nation braced for another day of unrest over the arrest of a top opposition figure. Vast crowds have hit the streets daily since the March 19 move against Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, prompting nightly […]
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A historic Buddhist temple burned to the ground and a UNESCO-listed village was ordered to evacuate as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires, which are tearing across the country’s southeast. More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend, with four people killed as dry windy weather hampered efforts to contain one […]
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The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled March 21 that a student of Moroccan-Turkish descent (with a Moroccan father and a Turkish mother) is to be banned from Romania for ten years. This decision follows reports from Romania’s intelligence agency that classified him as a “terrorist threat.” The student, who also holds German nationality, arrived in […]
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US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer on Monday slammed the inadvertent sharing of a Pentagon war plan with a journalist and called for a “full investigation.” “This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time,” said the top Democrat on the Senate floor. […]
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The world risks returning to the worst days of the global AIDS pandemic following the sudden halt to US foreign aid funding, the UN’s top AIDS official said Monday, warning millions would die. The United States has historically been the world’s biggest donor of humanitarian assistance, but President Donald Trump has slashed international aid since […]
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Turkish police have detained more than 1,100 people, including journalists, since the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival sparked the country’s worst unrest in years, a minister said on Monday. The demonstrations began in Istanbul after Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest last week and have since spread to more than 55 of Turkey’s 81 provinces, […]
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