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Art Basel, the world's top contemporary art fair, has returned to the Swiss city after a year's gap due to COVID-19 curbs, drawing hordes of wealthy buyers and breathing life into a market devastated by the pandemic.

New York – President Borut Pahor has held a number of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. He emphasises the importance of dialogue, including with those one does not agree with, which will also be one of the points of his address to the General Assembly on Friday.

As two NATO countries, Turkey and the U.S. should be in a very different position, the Turkish president said on Sept. 24. 

Some of the refugees fleeing the Taliban's brutality in Afghanistanare taking an arduous route across neighboring Iran to try and cross into Turkey. We met a family in the Turkish border city of Van who made it out of Afghanistan the night before the capital fell to the Taliban. 

The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol has subpoenaed four former members of Donald Trump's administration, including Mark Meadows and Steve Bannon, the panel's chairman said on Sept. 23.

"We are in a pandemic era, and people are dying every day in spite of their age and health. I am afraid I might die without my status being resolved," he said. "My family doesn't deserve this humiliation."

The current course of U.S.-Turkey relations "does not bode well," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 24, noting that he didn't have a good start with U.S. President Joe Biden, who took power earlier this year.

he CEO of US pharmaceutical company Moderna Stephane Bancel said that the Covid-19 pandemic may end in about one year as increased vaccine output guarantees enough global supplies. "If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated.

The top U.S. military officers from United States and Russia held six hours of talks in Helsinki on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face meeting between them since 2019 as both nations adjust to the U.S. pullout and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Greek and Greek Cypriot nationalists have targeted Archbishop Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in U.S., after he attended the opening ceremony of the Turkish House (Türkevi) in New York City with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar.