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I have noticed lately that people seem to be failing at having affairs. Well, not failing at having affairs. They are succeeding spectacularly in the having-affairs part. It’s the not-getting-caught part ...

Barack Obama has won a second four-year term as President of the United States. This victory will permit Obama to preside without any concern for re-election. Additionally, the U.S. is ...

Why do countries need armed forces? First of all, to defend their citizens from potential aggression from outside. It is only natural that every country seeks to improve its army ...

The large-scale damage caused when the mortar bombs fell on Akçakale drew everyone’s attention in Turkey to the crisis in Syria. While the great majority of the country are asking ...

After the longest and most expensive election campaign any democracy has ever seen, President Barack Obama was re-elected, albeit by a narrower margin than he received four years ago. Despite ...

Barack Obama has won a second four-year term as president of the United States. The Democratic incumbent defeated Republican Mitt Romney in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. America's first African-American president ...

As Australia digests the government's recent callfor deeper engagement with Asia -- and China in particular -- one Australian billionaire with interests in China has offered some advice. "Stop viewing China ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he wants Turkey to be a full member of the EU by 2023. Chancellor Angela Merkel assured him the talks would ...

It is 10 years since Turkey's newly formed Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power after a period of economic crisis. The centrist Islamic party has overseen a decade ...

Since the lavish, feel-good Turkish epic “Conquest 1453” had its premiere this year, its tale of the taking of Constantinople by the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmet II has become the highest-grossing ...