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DHA Photo Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) on early Monday announced President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won absolute majority in presidential election as 97.7 percent of ballot boxes were opened. Speaking hours after Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, YSK head Sadi Güven said Justice and Development (AK) Party, Republican People’s Party (CHP), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), […]

Press Office of the the Turkish Presidency With almost 80 percent of the votes counted in Turkey’s presidential elections, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is predicted to emerge as the winner yet again with a 54.4 percent lead. Main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem Ince has so far received 29.8 percent of […]

IRNA Iran’s top diplomat said on Sunday Europe has guaranteed that the country will be able to sell its crude following US withdrawal from the nuclear deal and re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran. Addressing a meeting of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce in Tehran on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif commented on the future […]

Starting next week, the two Koreas plan to hold working-level negotiations to realize the April 27 Panmunjeom Declaration. On Monday, Seoul and Pyongyang will hold colonel-level talks about restoring suspended military communication channels on the eastern and western inter-Korean border area. According to the Ministry of National Defense, South Korea will send a delegation led […]

Prior to last year’s royal decree, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world that did not allow women to drive -Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters] Women in Saudi Arabia are now allowed to drive for the first time since the religiously conservative kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists. The lifting of the […]

Matteo Salvini speaks during the Italian talk show “Porta a Porta” on Wednesday as a picture of migrants is seen in the background. Photo: Andreas Solaro / AFP Italy defiantly declared on Saturday that its ports were closed to foreign-flagged rescue ships as German charity vessel Lifeline lay off the coast of Malta in limbo […]

Reuters Photo Polls have opened in Turkey’s high-stakes presidential and parliamentary elections, with 56,322,632 registered voters and 180,065 ballot boxes across the country. Voters began gathering at polling centers early on Sunday to cast their ballots in the elections that complete Turkey’s transition to a new executive presidential system that was approved in a controversial […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday. Moon is in Moscow on a state visit intended to boost bilateral economic ties. / Yonhap President Moon Jae-in and Russian President Vladimir Putin have vowed to speed up preparations for three-party […]

The vessel at the centre of the dispute. Italy was right to say a migrant vessel at the centre of a diplomatic spat had broken the rules, but it has no right to dictate to Malta that it should take it into its ports, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Saturday. It is the prime […]

First aiders attend to the injured following an explosion that rocked White City Stadium this afternoon where President Mnangagwa was addressing thousands of Zanu-PF supporters. An explosion has rocked White City Stadium in Bulawayo where President Mnangagwa was addressing thousands of people at a campaign rally. President Mnangagwa is unhurt and has been successfully evacuated. […]