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Summer wildfires plague Greece and Turkey. The worst ones have been contained
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of Greek firefighters and water-bombing aircraft succeeded late Wednesday in taming a large wildfire on the fringes of Athens that forced authorities to evacuate two nearby settlements. Summer wildfires also plagued Greece's Mediterranean neighbor...
Kentucky man convicted of training with Islamic State group in Syria
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has been convicted in federal court of leaving the U.S. to train and fight with the Islamic State group in Syria a decade ago. A jury in Bowling Green convicted Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, of multiple counts of supporting and receiving...
Turkey can expect strong support from the Turkish-German community at Euro 2024. So can Germany
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Six years ago, Ilkay Gündogan's place on the German national team was in question over a photograph with Turkey's president. Now he's the team captain. When Gündogan leads the German national team out against Scotland in the European Championship...
Christophe Deloire, the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, has died. He was 53
PARIS (AP) — Christophe Deloire, who negotiated to free imprisoned journalists around the world and offered refuge to reporters under threat as the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, died Saturday. He was 53. Deloire had been battling sudden and aggressive...
Euro 2024 in Germany is UEFA's 1st step to raise pandemic-hit cash reserves above $550 million
GENEVA (AP) — UEFA’s two-step financial plan to refill its pandemic-hit cash reserves starts with a men’s 2024 European Championship held in the home of the continent’s largest economy. Revenue of about 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion) is expected from broadcast and sponsor...
Turkey urges Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's foreign minister has urged Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs in China's western Xinjiang province and allow them to “live their values,” a Turkish official said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on...
Greece is buoyed by a Turkish official's comments about Parthenon sculptures taken by Britain
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — One of the world’s most intractable cultural disputes is back in the spotlight after a Turkish official cast doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired the Parthenon Marbles, 2,500-year-old sculptures taken from the Acropolis in...
Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in Turkey's parliament to denounce the ouster of a new mayor
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — More than a dozen legislators from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party staged a demonstration in parliament on Tuesday to denounce the arrest and expulsion from office of a newly elected mayor, Turkish media reported. On Monday, authorities detained Mehmet Siddik...
Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won't become another migrant route
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus said Tuesday that he won’t “open another route” for irregular migration by letting through more than two dozen asylum-seekers now stranded in a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that bisects the war-divided island nation. President...
A military training plane crashes in central Turkey, killing its 2 pilots
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A military plane crashed during training on Tuesday, killing its two pilots on board, Turkey’s defense ministry announced. The SF-260D training plane crashed into an agricultural field in central Turkey, after taking off from a Air Force base near the city...
