ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – Turkey on Friday said 32 Turkish diplomats were still missing despite being recalled by Ankara in the wake of last month’s failed coup seeking to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Thirty-two of the 208 diplomats recalled to Turkey did not come back to Turkey,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters during a […]
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Turkey says 32 diplomats recalled by Ankara after coup still missing
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Republicans, in revolt, urge party to de-fund Trump: report
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – More than 70 influential Republicans have signed a letter urging the party to stop spending money on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and direct it instead to November’s congressional races, a news report said on Friday. “We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a […]
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Obama on indie rock kick in latest playlist
NEW YORK, (APP/AFP) – How have Barack Obama’s musical tastes changed in his last year in the White House? Judging from his playlists, he is getting into more indie rock. Obama on Thursday for the second year in a row released summer playlists on streaming service Spotify, revealing what’s on his speakers as he relaxes […]
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Saudi trial opens over Mecca crane collapse
RIYADH, (APP/AFP) – A trial is underway for 14 people over a deadly crane incident in Saudi Arabia that killed more than 100 people at Islam’s holiest site, local media reported Thursday. They are accused of “negligence leading to death, damaging public property and ignoring safety guidelines” at the site of the crane collapse in […]
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State of emergency called for after 38 die in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar, (APP/Anatolia): At least 38 people, mostly children, have been killed by an undiagnosed disease in a remote area of Myanmar’s north, officials and residents said Thursday. The illness, with measles-like symptoms, has hit eight villages in the far corner of Naga Self-Administered Zone in Sagaing region, a mountainous area populated by people from […]
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Mexican police arrest alleged drug trafficker accused of murdering journalist
XALAPA, Mexico, (APP/AFP) – A suspected local chief of the notorious Zetas cartel was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a journalist, officials said Wednesday. Soldiers acting under a court order captured the suspect — identified only as Manuel N and his alias “El Cachorro” — in the Mexican state of Veracruz, […]