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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will chair a cabinet meeting on Feb. 22, in which a Feb. 17 suicide car bomb attack in Ankara that killed 28 people, recent developments surrounding the Syrian conflict and ongoing joint military-police operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will top the agenda.

Iraq has extended a ban on imports of frozen and live poultry products to cover two dozen countries, including China and South Africa, the government said on Jan. 10.

Baghdad last month restricted poultry imports from France, where an outbreak of avian flu has been reported. 

Turkey's Limak Cement is in talks on the acquisition of cement operations in Africa which could be worth up to 1 billion euros ($1 billion), a senior executive told Reuters, though there was no certainty a deal would be agreed.

Facebook announced June 30 it had opened its first African office in Johannesburg as part of its efforts "to help people and businesses connect" on the continent.

American rap star Snoop Dogg has shared a photoshopped image of himself in a Galatasaray jersey, leading to social media frenzy among Turkish football fans.

Snoop Dogg, aka Snoop Lion, shared the image on his Instagram account (followed by 5.4 million people) late June 24, with a comment that read "GooooOoaaaaaaallll." More than 110,000 people "liked" the image as of early June 25.

Thessaloniki Motorcyclist Ilias vrochidis, aged 31, started a journey in July 2013 aimed at exploring Balkan and African countries so as to deliver letters to the families and friends of migrants who have come to Greece. His goal was to raise public awareness on migrant issues.

FIFA's spokesperson Walter De Gregorio deemed the unexpected arrests of the organization's officials to be a positive event.

Police found an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in north Africa, an official said on May 8.

A 19-year-old woman took the case through a pedestrian crossing from Morocco into the small Spanish-governed territory of Ceuta on May 7, a spokesman for the Civil Guard police force said.

BANGUI/BELGRADE - Serbian Armed Forces troops have taken part in a military parade staged at the M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), to mark the declaration of full operational capabilities of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country.

Army chief visits Serbian peacekeepers in Cyprus

Chief-of-Staff of the Serbian Army (VS) Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic has visited the soldiers deployed as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.

During his trip on Monday, Dikovic said that the Serbian army members were "performing all tasks within this UN multinational operation in a highly professional way."