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ANKARA-Turkey said Wednesday it had identified the gunman behind the New Year's massacre on an elite Istanbul nightclub that killed 39, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the attack aimed to polarise Turkish society. The assailant stormed the glamorous Reina nightclub on the Bosphorus early...

Today, the Minister of National Defence announced 820 personnel were dishonorably discharged from the Army and Navy. Of those, 648 were already under arrest. Turkey’s president has defended the sweeping crackdown that has seen the detention of thousands of judges and prosecutors following July’s failed...

By The Washington Post ISTANBUL -- The Saudi government acknowledged early Saturday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, saying he died during a fist fight. The announcement, which came in a tweet from the Saudi foreign ministry, said that an...

By AURELIEN BREEDEN, SEWELL CHAN and NICOLE PERLROTH MAY 5, 2017 PARIS — On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and...

Two leaders praise 'very fruitful' round of closed-door talks held in the Finnish capital Helsinki. President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have committed to improving relations between the United States and Russia, with Putin saying there was no longer any reason for tensions between the superpowers. The...

Sir Mo Farah has revealed he is to relocate to London but has denied his decision has been influenced by doping allegations against his American coach Alberto Salazar. The four-time Olympic gold medallist instead insists he is coming home to London because he and his...

By:Leyla Hussein A year ago anti-FGM campaigner Leyla Hussein wrote to her teenage daughter about her hopes for her generation in 2016. She had no idea what was to follow. My dearest Feyrus, Where do I start? I wrote to you a year ago to express my...

By: Daily Sabah Turkey, Sweden and Finland signed a trilateral memorandum on Tuesday on the Nordic countries’ NATO membership process after an important meeting in Madrid in which Ankara has got the concrete steps it was awaiting especially in the field of terrorism. Turkey "got what...

By:· CBC News  On Tuesday, the United Nations officially marked the day the global population reached eight billion people. It's not an exact science. It may have happened weeks or months ago or may not even...

Ahmed was just two when he was brought to Britain with big brother Mo but now he faces being deported back to the war-torn country Thousands of proud Brits are poised to salute athletics legend Mo Farah at Olympic parades, but there’s one man who...