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In May 2013, authorities in Myanmar's Rakhine state issued a directive placing a two-child limit on Rohingya couples in two predominately Muslim townships in the region -- in blatant...

Automotive exports were up successively in April and May, head of exporters union said. Uludag Automotive Industry Exporters Union (OIB) President Orhan Sabuncu said Turkey's automotive exports grew 12...

Twelve Russians have appeared in court in Moscow over clashes at an anti-Vladimir Putin rally in 2012. Ten of the defendants appeared inside a glass cage known as an...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he set apart those 'environmental protesters' at Taksim Gezi Park in central Istanbul from 'extremists' who took park in terrorist...

Excessive anger or harshness which reaches dangerous levels is called tahawwur (boldness, foolhardiness). A person with tahawwur demonstrates attributes of harshness, wrath and roughness. Opposite of tahawwur is softness...

The head of the EU delegation to Bosnia, Peter Sorensen, said he felt optimistic that Bosnians living near Croatia will get special crossing cards, instead of having to use...

Football’s spiritual guardian Brazil is in need of convincing sceptics that it is able to host soccer’s most prestigous event, World Cup next year only two weeks remaining. Brazillian...

IKEA has turned a page in a mega-successful (if at times scandal-struck) saga with the departure of the creator of the Swedish furniture retailer, Ingvar Kamprad, from the board...

The Turkish Coffee Truck, the world’s first Turkish coffee cultural tour, has arrived in the Belgian capital of Brussels as part of a route that includes the Netherlands and...

A giant lizard that lived 40 million years ago at a time when Earth was a hothouse has been named in honor of rock singer Jim Morrison, palaeontologists said...