ISTANBUL - Turkish premier re-issued a warning on Thursday that public support for the European Union in Turkey had been eroding due to what he called as “double standards” over his country`s…
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Presidents Committee of the Supreme Court of Appeals did not have authority to issue the statement that criticized last week “certain political circles” for attempting to influence and control the judiciary. “If such a statement regarding a political party, which is a defendant of…
Reuters - It has been described as a global crisis
pushing 100 million people into hunger, threatening to stoke
social and political turmoil and set the fight against world
poverty back by seven years.
Geneva: The World Health Organisation called on Friday for a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to prevent young people from starting to smoke. In a statement released ahead of World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the UN agency said sophisticated marketing techniques were ensnaring…
BAGHDAD, May 29: The US military announced on Thursday the withdrawal of another 4,000 surge troops from Iraq after reporting that violence across the country has hit a four-year low. It said the latest pullout was to be completed by next month. It is the fourth brigade to withdraw from Iraq out of five that deployed under the controversial surge of American forces in February 2007. The brigade played an integral role…
Reuters - The end is near. Probably.
AP - More than 1 million people may have to evacuate dozens of villages in a Sichuan province valley if an earthquake-spawned lake threatens to burst and flood the region, an emergency official warned Friday.