Turkey said Thursday it had the right to close a key air base used by the US-led coalition to strike jihadists in Syria, as tensions mount between Nato allies Ankara and Washington. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim

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A car bombing blamed on Kurdish militants rocked the Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday, killing at least two people and triggering a deadly shootout, as authorities chased the fugitive killer behind the New Year

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President-elect Donald Trump described America's leading Democrat as a "clown" who behaves like a typical politician Thursday, but urged him to work with Republicans. In his latest early morning Twitter screed, the incoming president attacked

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Egypt has released political activist Ahmed Maher, a leading figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled the government, after he completed his jail term, his lawyer and a security source said Thursday. Maher, 36, was

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Authorities in south-west France began a cull of hundreds of thousands of ducks Thursday as authorities scramble to contain an outbreak of a virulent strain of bird flu sweeping Europe. The farm birds in France's

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At least 15 people were killed Thursday in a car bombing in Syria's coastal city of Jableh, a bastion of the regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Syrian state television also reported

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Iraqi forces launched an offensive against the Islamic State group near the Syrian border Thursday, piling further pressure on the jihadists' crumbling "caliphate". Baghdad and its allies also turned up the heat on IS in

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A major water crisis in Syria's capital worsened as regime and rebel forces clashed near its main reservoir Thursday despite a fragile truce that entered its seventh day. The water from rebel-held Wadi Barada, which

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A reported pause in global warming between 1998 and 2014 was false, according to US-British research published Wednesday that confirmed the findings of a controversiial US study on ocean warming Scientists at the University of

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Zameen.com, Pakistan's leading real estate website, is set to hold its first property affair of the year, Zameen.com Property Expo 2017 (Karachi), on January 7 and 8 at the Expo Centre, Karachi. Noteworthy real estate

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