DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, (APP/Anatolia): Turkey’s prime minister announced Sunday a stimulus package for the country’s east and southeastern provinces, where over a year ago the PKK terrorist group resumed a decades-old armed campaign against the Turkish state. Speaking at a meeting in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, Binali Yildirim said that Turkey would invest 10 billion […]
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Turkish PM reveals economic package for eastern Turkey
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UK casts doubt on points-based immigration after Brexit
LONDON, (APP/AFP): British Prime Minister Theresa May has committed to cracking down on immigration from the European Union, while casting doubts on introducing a points-based system, according to her comments released on Sunday. May’s plans for immigration policy in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU remained a key discussion point as she […]
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New Zealand woman arrested in Bali drugs case
DENPASAR, Indonesia,(APP/AFP) – A New Zealand woman has been arrested in Bali after flying into the resort island allegedly carrying crystal methamphetamine following a drug-fuelled party in Australia, an official said Friday. Myra Williams could face up to 12 years in jail after being detained at the Indonesian island’s airport Wednesday following her arrival from […]
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Japan typhoon death toll rises to 14
TOKYO, (APP/AFP) – The death toll from a devastating typhoon in northern Japan rose to 14, officials said Friday, as another powerful storm approached the country’s south. Two bodies were found separately near rivers on the island of Hokkaido, a police spokesman told AFP. On Thursday evening, police also found a body near a flooded […]
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Security firm to exit contentious Australia refugee camps
SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – A leading Australian security provider has become the latest company to walk away from the government’s asylum-seeker detention camps on Pacific islands, following in the footsteps of Spanish construction giant Ferrovial. The centres in tiny Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island — where asylum-seekers who try to reach Australia by boat […]
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Melania Trump sues news outlets that said she was an escort
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday sued two media outlets that alleged she was an escort in the 1990s. The suit — filed in state circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland and acquired by AFP — is against Mail Media, Inc. which publishes the Daily […]