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Former PM Binali Yıldırım casts his vote for the parliament speaker election alongsideAK Party deputies in the second round of voting. (AA Photo) Turkish lawmakers on Thursday elected Turkey’s last Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım to be the first speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly under new government system. The voting process began at 2.28 […]

North Korean negotiators failed to show up for scheduled talks with the U.S. at Panmunjeom, Thursday, on repatriating the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, indicating a possible rift between the two countries in ongoing denuclearization talks. The two sides were supposed to meet at 9 a.m. in the border village, […]

Croatian fans cheer while watching the semifinal match between Croatia and England at the 2018 soccer World Cup, in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. (AP Photo) Jubilant Croatian fans honked their car horns and let off fireworks after their national football team beat England 2-1 in extra time Wednesday to clinch a place in […]

Three Syrian army positions in Quneitra province were hit overnight [Eddie Gerald/Getty Images] Israel has attacked Syrian military positions after an unmanned drone entered its airspace near the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday. The Israeli military acknowledged in a statement that three Syrian army positions in Quneitra province were targeted overnight, saying it was in retaliation […]

Soure:Dan Kitwood/Getty Images News/Getty Images The president is set to visit the United Kingdom for the first time since his inauguration in 2017. For a head of state obsessed with image and being the best, will Donald Trump visit Buckingham Palace on his trip, the building most associated with the British monarchy? It doesn’t look like it. […]

US President Donald Trump has told NATO countries to increase their defence spending to four percent of their gross domestic product, higher than the group’s goal of two percent, a White House official said on Wednesday. The official said the president’s remarks were not a formal proposal but came as he was urging leaders of the 29-member military alliance to […]

FILE Photo The German foreign minister lashed out at the U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism over Russia’s sale of liquefied natural gas to Berlin, saying “we are not captives” of Russia or the U.S.” Heiko Maas’ remarks on his Twitter account came after Trump said at the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday that Germany […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C), poses with the members of the newly appointed Cabinet following a news conference at the Beştepe Presidential Complex in Ankara, July 9. Turkey’s new Cabinet is expected to raise the prospect for a more dynamic term in politics. All of the ministers are prominent people in their respective fields and […]

At a meeting with NATO’s Stoltenberg, Trump said Germany is ‘captive’ to Russia [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters US President Donald Trump has told NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that Germany is “captive” to Russia because it is importing energy from there. In a heated exchange with the NATO chief ahead of a summit in Brussels on Wednesday, the US president was fiercely […]

  A man whose family is missing watches search and rescue operations at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Wednesday. Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited flood-stricken parts of Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from the worst weather disaster in 36 years reached 176 and health worries […]