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Senior EU officials have formally discussed for the first time a possible Greek debt default, Reuters reported on Friday.

Legislation ending the US government's bulk collection of telephone data is "a historic victory for the rights of every citizen," former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden said in a commentary June 4.

I have bad news for President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. The guest of honor at the June 3 panel of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) was Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. In other words the chairman of the board of the New York Times, which Erdo?an called a ?rag.?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has accused prominent international media institutions like the New York Times, CNN and the BBC of trying to weaken the country and then disintegrate it in line with instructions issued to them by what he called ?the superior mind.? 

Sepp Blatter, who is to resign as FIFA President, is a focus of a federal corruption investigation, US media outlets quote officials as saying.

The new came just hours after Blatter announced he wound step down.

Last Saturday, President Tayyip Erdo?an joined a huge rally in Istanbul, which marked the 562nd anniversary of the Turks? conquest of Istanbul. (We Turks celebrate this ?conquest anniversary? every year, for apparently we can?t get enough of having taken the city more than two dozen generations ago.) 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed the New York Times for the third time in a week.

By Nikos Konstandaras

Do you know why Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an has continued to slam the New York Times ever since its recent editorial, accusing it of ?interfering? in Turkish politics and using language like ?Who do you think you are?? and ?Know your place??

Because, as the country heads to critical parliamentary elections on June 7, this kind of rhetoric works in domestic politics.

Many Sephardic Jews in Turkey are now applying for Spanish citizenship in anticipation of a parliamentary bill expected to pass this month in Madrid, which would grant nationality to Jewish people who were expelled in 1492, during the Inquisition, according to a report by the New York Times on May 27.