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The 11 Cities Most Likely To Run Out of Drinking Water

Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running...

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Turkey Hosts Meeting of Pan-Islamic Group Over Jerusalem Tensions

Turkey on Tuesday hosted a meeting of the main grouping of the world's Muslim nations to discuss the crisis that...

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Muslim States Slam ‘provocative’ Israel Actions In Jerusalem

The main grouping of the world's Muslim nations on Tuesday accused Israel of staging provocative actions and inflaming...

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Quirky US-French Museum To Offer Night On Orient Express

Visitors to a quirky rail museum in France's Burgundy region, the brainchild of US entrepreneur Gregory Marshall, will...

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Erdogan Urges All Muslims To ‘visit’ and ‘protect’ Jerusalem

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday urged all Muslims to visit and protect Jerusalem after violence broke...

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Pan-Islamic Body To Meet Over Jerusalem Crisis

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation will meet in Istanbul next week for talks on the crisis around Jerusalem's...

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Japan Marks Three Years To Tokyo 2020 As Issues Linger

Japan Monday marked three years before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with celebrations and fanfare -- even as organisers...

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Jihadists Battle Rebels For Control of Key Syria Province

A former Al-Qaeda affiliate was locked in fierce clashes Friday with a leading rebel group for control of one of the...

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Gulen ‘not Worried’ About Extradition To Turkey

US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for a failed coup attempt a year ago, told French TV Tuesday...

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Erdogan Hails ‘defenders of Nation’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given emotional speeches to tens of thousands of people a year after a coup...

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Turkey To Mark Anniversary of Coup Attempt

Events will be held in Turkey later to mark the first anniversary of a failed coup in which at least 260 people died...

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Turkey Energy Minister ‘to Visit Israel For Pipeline Deal’

Turkey's Energy Minister Berat Albayrak is set to visit Israel by the end of this year to conclude an agreement for the...

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Turkey’s Deepening Tragedy of Murdered Women

As she did most afternoons, Pinar Unluer was waiting to collect her six-year-old son from his school in Turkey's Aegean...

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Questions Linger One Year On

Just before midnight on July 15, 2016, a tear-stained anchorwoman, clearly under duress, appeared on Turkish state...

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U.S. Expects To Lift Laptop Ban Soon For Four Remaining Airports

The United States expects to lift the laptop ban soon for the four remaining foreign airports that are still impacted...

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Four Airports Remain Under US Laptop Ban

Four airports remain under a ban for carry-on laptops on US-bound flights, imposed amid fears that Islamic State is...

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Turkey Since Attempted Coup

A year ago, a faction in the Turkish army staged a failed coup bid against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prompting a...

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Turkey Opposition Chief Meets Jailed MP After Mass Rally

Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Monday visited a jailed MP in an Istanbul prison, a day after finishing...

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Tillerson Looks To Defuse Qatar Crisis On Gulf Tour

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives Monday in Kuwait, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbours,...