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Turkish medical union chief Sebnem Korur Fincanci helped draft UN rules for documenting torture A Turkish court on Wednesday released an internationally respected medic who outraged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by backing a probe into the army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Iraq. Turkish Medical Association head Sebnem Korur Fincanci was detained and jailed …

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a highway in Turkey as an armored police van carrying officers drove past on Friday, injuring all nine occupants, government officials said. Five people were detained in connection with the attack, which occurred near the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, Interior Minister Suleyman …

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Kherson celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia´s eight-month occupation for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin´s retreating forces. A jubilant crowd gathered in Kherson´s …

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Migrants try to warm themselves by a fire near Idomeni at the border between Greece, which has since 2019 steadily tightened restrictions, and North Macedonia Pakistani asylum seeker Mohamed Bilal was 15 when he arrived in Greece.Five years later, he’s lost all hope and is on the road again, desperate for a better life elsewhere. …

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LITERARY FICTION The Romantic by William Boyd (Viking £20, 464 pp) The Romantic  Boyd’s new novel revisits the ‘whole life’ formula of his 2002 hit Any Human Heart, which followed its hero across the 20th century. The Romantic does the same thing for the 19th century. It opens with the kind of tongue-in-cheek framing device …

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The alleged fraudster at the heart of the legal battle over huge cash gifts to has been living in a property owned by , court papers suggest. Turkish businessman Selman Turk, 35, has lived in a multi-million-pound flat in a prestigious Mayfair address close to and the luxury shops of Piccadilly. The flat is owned …

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ISTANBUL, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Lawyer Turkey has extended its lira bank deposits’ withholding tax support until the end of June next year, Lawyer Turkey the Official Gazette showed on Thursday. The measure, Lawyer Turkey first announced in September 2020, lowered the withholding tax on deposits up to six months to 5% from 15%, that …

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The socialite wife of a former minister who has donated more than £2million to the British Conservative Party allegedly for close access to the past three prime ministers was listed as a director of a company secretly owned by an oligarch close to the Russian tyrant, according to reports.  Russian-born Lubov Chernukhin, whose multi-millionaire businessman …

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and her two teenage friends were smuggled into by a spy working for – before ‘s nation then then conspired with the UK to cover up its role, a new book claims. The so-called Jihadi Bride was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join the Islamic State …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Tom Barrack, the investor and onetime fundraiser for former U.S.President Donald Trump, will go on trial next week in a case that will provide a rare test of a century-old law requiring agents for other countries to notify the government. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Barrack …

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