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Washington has made an offer to Ankara in which the United States will permit the establishment of a safe zone - something Turkey has been demanding for years - in exchange for Turkey not fighting Syrian Kurdish forces. 

The foreign ministers of the United States and Russia, the authors of a stillborn cease-fire in Syria, held discussions by phone for the fourth consecutive day on Oct. 1 regarding the bombing campaign in Aleppo that has hit hospitals and water supplies. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the United States for the "inconsistency and disjointedness" of its policies on the Middle East, as one part of the Obama administration continues to insist on allying with Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD), an organization that Ankara regards as an associate of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).  

The Turkish authorities have seized a major furniture company based in the Aegean province of İzmir in the ongoing probe into the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, widely believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup attempt.

India, the world's third biggest carbon emitter, was set to ratify the Paris agreement on climate change on Oct. 2 on the birthday of the country's famously ascetic independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

India, with a population of 1.3 billion people, is the latest big polluter to formally sign onto the historic accord which now takes a major step towards becoming reality.

The lounge offers Turkish and international gourmet food and beverages.

The Android Nougat statue unveiled at Google campus in Mountain View.

EU antitrust regulators plan to order Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled a home-built drone that they said was capable of carrying bombs, state media reported on Oct. 1, in what appeared to be another copy of a reconnaissance U.S. drone that Iran captured five years ago. 

The drone, called Saegheh, or lightning, was unveiled at an expo showcasing the latest achievements by the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace arm. 

Turkish armed forces will be able to carry out cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq by the autumn of 2017, MPs in the country have decided.

Lawmakers in Turkey have approved an extension of the military's mandate with the approval of all parties except the Kurd-dominated Peace and Democracy Party (HDP).

BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned the United States that any "direct aggression" by US against Syrian government will have tremendous negative long-term consequence for the entire region and would lead to "frightening, tectonic shifts" in the Middle East.