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The prospect of a Conservative General Election victory increased this morning after local elections showed Labour suffering losses across the country and the Ukip vote collapsing.

Theresa May’s party has made significant gains in Wales and England, just weeks before the country goes to the polls to decide whether Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn takes the keys to Number 10.

The first time Wikipedia made the news in Turkey was when its founder Jimmy Wales came to Turkey for a keynote speech back in 2008. He was invited by the company Altivi. Almost all media outlets covered his speech because Wikipedia symbolized the start of a new age where information would never again be centralized.

NATO has asked to establish a counterintelligence centre in Bucharest to act against "reported threats" and to support alliance structures in the country against espionage and sabotage by hostile forces.

Russia claims to have created a devastating hypersonic missile that travels five times faster than the speed of sound and could rip through navy warship defences because it’s too fast to stop.

Scotland's Parliament voted Tuesday to seek a new referendum on independence from Britain, clearing the way for the country's first minister, its top lawmaker, to ask the British government to approve such a vote.

Britain said Monday it will launch the process of leaving the European Union on March 29, setting a historic and uncharted course to become the first country to withdraw from the bloc by March 2019.

NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will present his annual report. The report describes the activities of NATO regarding security and the improvement of collective defence in 2016.

French investigators have searched the Paris home of conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon, reports say.
The raid on Thursday morning was part of an investigation into an allegedly fake job given to his wife.
Mr Fillon has vowed to keep his candidacy going despite growing pressure. Several supporters have resigned from his campaign.

Every medieval English monarch had to decide how to deal with prisoners of war. Ruling over territory that sometimes ran from the highlands of Scotland to the south of France, their authority rested on violence. Fighting the French, Scots, Welsh, Irish, or their own nobility in a string of civil wars, they could not have kept their throne without victories on the battlefield.

Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500–6,200 BCE.