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Turkey’s Presidential, Parliamentary Elections To Be Held on May 14  Turkey’s crucial elections are too close to call  By Mohammad Al-Kassim/The Media Line [Istanbul] Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections are less than 48 hours away, with incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan facing extraordinary challenges and fierce competition that could end his two-decade rule. Voters will cast their ballots on May 14, deciding the future of Turkey’s democracy less than three […]

LAS PALMAS (Reuters) – Spanish authorities have seized a Brazilian-flagged fishing boat off the Canary Islands with 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in a hidden compartment in its machine room, police said on Friday as they brought the boat to the port of Las Palmas. Authorities shared a video of the 25-metre (82.02 ft) Efesios 5-20 being approached on rough seas by a speedboat sent from the patrol ship Condor. Officers […]

BELGRADE (Reuters) – A court in Montenegro agreed on Friday to release Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur charged in the U.S. with a multibillion-dollar fraud, on bail of 400,000 euros ($440,320), pending a trial on local charges. Do Kwon, a South Korean national, is the former CEO of South Korea-based Terraform Labs, the company behind the stablecoin TerraUSD that collapsed in May 2022 roiling cryptocurrency markets. Following his arrest in […]

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -China on Friday condemned a U.S. congressional report that called for sanctions against 29 Hong Kong judges involved in the city’s national security cases, given their role in “weakening” the rule of law. The report by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) – which advises Congress – said a national security law China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 in response to pro-democracy […]

By Asif Shahzad and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said on Friday, after his arrest ignited deadly protests and a tussle with the military. The arrest, which the Supreme Court ruled “invalid and unlawful” a day earlier, has fuelled instability in the nation of 220 million at a time of economic crisis, with record […]

By Asif Shahzad and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said on Friday, after his arrest ignited deadly protests and a tussle with the military. The arrest, which the Supreme Court ruled “invalid and unlawful” a day earlier, has fuelled instability in the nation of 220 million at a time of economic crisis, with record […]

By Andrew Osborn and Felix Light (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday its forces repelled a surge of attempted Ukrainian attacks against positions in eastern Ukraine, but indicated that its troops had fallen back in one area for what it said were tactical reasons. The ministry said in a statement that Ukraine had deployed more than a thousand troops and up to 40 tanks in 26 attempted attacks across […]

By Andrew Osborn and Felix Light (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday its forces repelled a surge of attempted Ukrainian attacks against positions in eastern Ukraine, but indicated that its troops had fallen back in one area for what it said were tactical reasons. The ministry said in a statement that Ukraine had deployed more than a thousand troops and up to 40 tanks in 26 attempted attacks across […]

(Reuters) – NBCUniversal said on Friday its advertising chief, Linda Yaccarino, will leave the company following reports that she is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter. Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he had found a new chief executive for the social media site, but did not name the person. Yaccarino, who modernized the Comcast Corp entertainment and media division’s advertising business, was reportedly in […]