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Billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton won sweeping victories in the New York primary on April 19, bolstering their bids to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the White House.
 

NATO and Russia begin their highest level talks for nearly two years on April 20, in a bid to ease military tensions over the Baltic Sea and the simmering violence still gripping eastern Ukraine.
 
The meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be the first since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, when the alliance cut off all practical ties with Moscow in protest.
 

Iraqi police on April 19 unearthed two mass graves in the western city of Ramadi, with bodies of about 40 people killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants during the militant Sunni group's reign of terror in the city, officials said.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech on April 20 to the Communist Party that he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he is nearing the end of his life and exhorting them to help his ideas survive.
     

BELGRADE - "The European Union needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the European Union," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed in a televised speech to municipal leaders in Ankara on Tuesday.

Some 32 militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were killed in a Turkish Armed Force operation in Bashiqa near Mosul on April 19 after the militants launched an attack on a tank belonging to the Turkish army in the Bashiqa training camp. 

The "Cehennem Deresi" (Hell's Creek) Canyon in the Ardanuç district of Turkey's northeastern province of Artvin, which is said to be the world's second highest canyon after the Grand Canyon in the U.S., is to be promoted to woo more tourists, according to the Artvin governor. 

Turkish warplanes struck targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on April 18, the military said in a statement on April 19.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will pay a two-day visit to Turkey on April 20-21, with a view to discussing preparations for the Warsaw Summit to be held in July, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced.

A Germanreporter was deported from Turkey on April 19, on the grounds that he was previously banned from entering the country. 

Police detained Volker Schwenck, a reporter for the German State Television (ARD), following his arrival from Cairo to Istanbul's Atatürk Airport for a report on Syrian migrants.