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Maintaining tourism's northbound course
An improvement in the way the country's migration crisis is being managed and the smooth completion of the bailout review would enable Greek tourism to maintain its northbound course in 2017, according to the head of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Andreas Andreadis.
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EU agrees on approach to Brexit talks, PM May left out in cold
European Union leaders agreed their plan for Brexit negotiations on Dec. 15, pledging to move swiftly and stick together to ensure Britain does not cherry pick a sweet deal that might inspire others to unstitch the bloc.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May left before the other 27 leaders met briefly to formalize their plan for how to run Brexit talks.
US defense secretary thanks Turkey for its contribution to fight against ISIL
The United States defense secretary Ashton Carter has thanked his Turkish counterpart Fikri Işık for Turkey's contribution to the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Turkey condemns US court's parole for murderer of envoy
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the parole of a convict in the U.S who murdered a Turkish diplomat in the 1980s.
A court in Los Angeles accepted on Dec. 14 a defense attorney's demand for the conditional release of the Armenian-origin convict, Hampig Sassounian, who killed Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1982.
Countries with fastest Internet (infographic)
South Korea is well ahead of the pack when it comes to fast internet. With an average connection speed of 26.3 Mbps, accordi9bng to Akamai technological company. Ten more than the U.S., no country even comes close.
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Forget about “he” and “she”! Oxford moves to introduce neutral gender pronouns!
At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as ‘ze.’
A student union’s leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.
EU leaders to hold 'minefield' summit
Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels on Thursday for a summit fraught with disputes on how to handle the many crises they face, bar on possibly the biggest rift of all - how to handle Brexit.
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The fall of Aleppo is not the end of the war in Syria: UK Special Representative for Syria
The fall of Aleppo will not mean the end of the war in Syria and the fundamental aspect of this war has not changed, U.K. Special Representative for Syria, Gareth Bayley, has told a group of Turkish journalists in Istanbul.
Oxford University wants to do away with pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’
At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as 'ze.'
A student union's leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.
Greek, British police smash gang supplying forged passports to migrants
Greek and British police said on Monday they had broken up a criminal network that supplied forged travel documents to hundreds of illegal migrants trying to reach Britain and northern European countries.
The gang supplied more than a thousand lost or stolen passports and travel documents that were procured from accomplices in Barcelona, Spain, in the past six months.