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Turkey rejected US proposal to send Russian S-400 defense system to Ukraine: Foreign minister

By Anadolu Agency Washington once proposed that Turkey send to Ukraine the S-400 missile defense system it bought from Russia but which the US objected to, but Ankara refused this proposal, said the Turkish foreign minister. As it claimed the S-400 system had to exclude Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program, the US proposed

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Turkish ambassador’s vehicle in Sudan hit by gunfire

By Anadolu Agency The official vehicle of Turkey’s ambassador to Sudan was hit by gunfire on Saturday, as fighting continues between the army and a paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum and its surroundings. No casualties were reported and the source of the gunfire that hit Ismail Cobanoglu’s vehicle was unclear, said Turkish diplomatic sources,

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King Charles III crowned with regal pomp, cheers and shrugs

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla look at each other as they stand on the balcony of the Buckingham Palace after their coronation, in London, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP) By The Associated Press King Charles III was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony steeped in ancient ritual

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King Charles III crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey

King Charles III receives The St Edward’s Crown during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London. Picture date: Saturday May 6, 2023. Jonathan Brady/Pool via Reuters By Reuters King Charles III was crowned on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. In front of

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In a coronation brimming with history, Britain looks to the future

Well-wishers line the route of the ‘King’s Procession’, a two kilometres stretch from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, in central London, on May 6, 2023 ahead of the Coronation of King Charles III. Photographer Sebastien Bozon/Reuters By Reuters Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a

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Aid workers caught in crossfire of Sudan’s bloody war

Workers load aid supplies from WHO and UAEAID into a plane bound for Port Sudan at the Abu Dhabi International Airport on May 5, 2023. As Sudan’s war plunges the impoverished country even deeper into humanitarian turmoil, aid workers face deadly risks/AFP By AFP As Sudan’s war plunges the impoverished country even deeper into humanitarian

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UK court jails Nigerian senator for nine years for kidney-harvesting plot

Credit Photo Facebook By Reuters A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor were jailed by a London court on Friday for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced

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Suspect arrested in Serbia’s second mass shooting in 2 days

A 21-year-old suspect has been arrested. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut) By The Associated Press Serbian police said early Friday they had arrested a suspect in a series of shootings that killed at least eight people and wounded 14, the nation’s second such mass shooting in two days. In a statement, police said that the man, identified

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UK Conservatives suffering ‘terrible’ night with local election losses

By Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results with voters punishing his party over political scandals, sluggish economic growth and high inflation, early results showed on Friday. While governing parties often struggle at mid-term elections, the council results in England will be the largest, and possibly

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Commonwealth’s Indigenous representatives demand King Charles apologize for colonialism

King Charles III ( Behlul Cetinkaya – Anadolu Agency ) By Anadolu Agency Indigenous representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries called on King Charles III to apologize for “the horrific and enduring impacts” of colonialization and the “legacy of genocide.” “We, the undersigned, call on the British Monarch, King Charles III, on the date of his

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