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Erdogan nominated for Turkey presidency
Turkey's ruling party has nominated Recep Tayyip Erdogan to run in Turkey's first directly elected presidential race in August. The AK party announced the prime minister's candidacy on Tuesday before thousands of cheering supporters. Erdogan, in power since 2003, is barred by party rules from running as prime minister again. His candidacy for president.. More -
North Korea fires missiles into the sea
North Korea has fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, a day after South Korea rejected its proposals to reduce tensions, including the cancellation of annual drills between Seoul and Washington. The projectiles, with a range of 180 kilometers (110 miles), were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan and harmlessly.. More -
US to deploy more troops to Iraq
President Barack Obama has said he will send about 200 more US troops to Iraq to protect Americans and the US embassy in Baghdad amid fierce fighting in the country between government forces and Sunni armed groups. The US is also sending a detachment of helicopters and drone aircraft. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said on Monday about.. More -
Two police officers killed in Egypt bomb
Two Egyptian police officers have been killed and several others wounded in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo's Heliopolis district, the Interior Ministry has said. Security forces were defusing one makeshift bomb found at a street intersection near the presidential palace on Monday when a second device exploded, the ministry.. More -
Bodies of missing settlers found in West Bank
The Israeli army has recovered the bodies of three settlers who went missing in the occupied West Bank earlier this month, triggering fears of a broader military crackdown. The bodies were found in a field near the village of Halhoul on Monday, not far from where Israeli troops first started searching after they vanished on June 12. "Hamas is.. More -
Russian cameraman killed in east Ukraine
A cameraman for Russia's state-owned Channel One television has been killed in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the channel has said. Anatoly Klyan, 68, was shot in the stomach when his film crew came under fire overnight after they went to film near a pro-Kiev military unit in the region, the channel said on its website on Monday. The trip was organized.. More -
Israeli air strikes hit targets in Gaza
The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip after rockets were launched towards Israel, the military said, and Israel's foreign minister suggested reoccupying the Hamas-ruled territory to stop the rocket fire. Palestinian security officials said on Sunday that one Palestinian fighter was killed in a drone strike in Gaza. The.. More -
Deadly blasts hit Cairo outskirts
Two bombs have exploded at a small telephone exchange on Cairo's outskirts, killing an 18-year-old woman and her mother, security sources said, days after a string of small bomb explosions hit the Egyptian capital's metro network. The exchange building was still under construction, and it appeared likely that the devices that exploded had been intended.. More -
Iraq's Kurds rule out retreating from Kirkuk
The president of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has issued a defiant statement to the Iraqi government that there was no going back on autonomous Kurdish rule in the oil city Kirkuk. Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, made the comments at a joint news conference in Erbil with visiting William Hague, British foreign.. More -
Israeli air strike kills Palestinians in Gaza
An Israeli air raid has killed two Palestinians and critically wounded a third in the Gaza Strip, medical officials in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory say. Friday's attack targeted a car travelling along a coastal road near a beach refugee camp in Gaza, Reuters news agency reported quoting witnesses. One source identified the men as belonging.. More -
Israeli air strike kills Palestinians in Gaza
An Israeli air raid has killed two Palestinians and critically wounded a third in the Gaza Strip, medical officials in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory say. Friday's attack targeted a car travelling along a coastal road near a beach refugee camp in Gaza, Reuters news agency reported quoting witnesses. One source identified the men as belonging.. More -
Sisi 'will not interfere' in court verdicts
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that he will not interfere with judicial verdicts, following an international outcry over lengthy prison sentences given to three Al Jazeera journalists on Monday. Sisi said Egypt's authorities would respect the independence of the judiciary. "We will not interfere in judicial rulings," Sisi.. More -
Palestinian prisoners end mass hunger strike
Sixty-three Palestinian prisoners have suspended the hunger strike, which they have observed in Israeli jails since late April, one of their lawyers has said. "The strikers, who have reached an agreement with the Israeli prison authorities, have decided to suspend their action with the approach of Ramadan," lawyer Abu Snena said on Tuesday.. More -
Outrage as Egypt jails Al Jazeera staff
An Egypt court has sentenced two Al Jazeera journalists to seven years in jail and one to 10 years, triggering international outrage and condemnation of what many described as an "unjust verdict". The guilty verdicts were announced by a judge on Monday against Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed. Greste and Fahmy were sentenced.. More -
Final cargo of chemical arms leaves Syria
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped from the country and are en route for destruction at sea, according to the world's chemical-weapons watchdog. A Danish ship is now to take the chemicals for transshipment in Italy's port of Gioia Tauro to the US ship Cape Ray for destruction at sea, while some chemicals are to be destroyed.. More
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