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The rising tide of an aggressive blend of nationalism and Islamism might be prompting Ankara to pursue its own WMDs, and its preference appears to be long-range missiles. As Turkey feels more threatened by real or (mostly) imagined enemies, it increasingly views maximum possible military deterrence as essential to both survival (a defensive goal) and assertiveness (an offensive one).

The Ukrainian Security Council has banned Russian singer Yulia Samoylova, set to represent Russia at the 2017 Eurovision song contest, from entering the country for three years.

The decision to bar the Russian singer, who has used a wheelchair since her childhood, from entering the Eurovision host country was announced on Wednesday by a Security Council spokeswoman.

A surgery-obsessed model from Sweeden has had permanent implants placed in her eyes to make them ‘cartoon green’. Pixee Fox, 26, hit headlines last year when she had six ribs removed as part of her dream to sculpt the perfect hourglass figure.

Sónar, an international festival of electronic music that has been celebrated in cities around the world for the past 23 years, will meet audiences in Turkey for the first time later this month. 

The Feast of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Saint George Cathedral in Stockholm, in the presence of Metropolitan of Sweden and Scandinavia Kleopas.
The Divine Liturgy was conducted in six languages: Greek, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, French and English. The psalms were sang by the Cathedral’s cantor Dimitrios Kalpakidis and the churche’s byzantine choir.

Residents of Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul, suffer some of the worst hearing loss in the world due to excessive amounts of noise, according to data from the Worldwide Hearing Index, which was prepared for the World Hearing Day on March 3.

The city was the fifth worst city out of 50 for hearing loss, according to the Combined Hearing Loss Index, which is a combined result of the average hearing loss and the noise pollution indices.

The index was prepared by a German scientific research company, Mimi. 

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz is known for taking risks in his efforts to expose radical Islam but while filming his most recent video showing the effects of immigration on Sweden, Horowitz claims he was physically assaulted by a group of five migrants.

The incident occurred in the Husby area of Stockholm, a so-called “no-go zone” in the Swedish capital.

Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, was plagued by immigrant related riots, looting and violence Monday night.
Many police officers were attacked with by stones and shots were fired while hundreds of fires were lit.

Police in Sweden were forced to fire warning shots after a group of unidentified persons ran riots in the Rinkeby district of Stockholm late on Monday, setting cars on fire, throwing stones at police and looting local stores.