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MHP leader supports Erdoğan on extension of state of emergency

The state of emergency should continue until all remnants of the July 15 coup attempt are cleared, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said Nov. 29, echoing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Merkel “sits” on a toilet in first German Charlie Hebdo edition

Angela Merkel sits on a toilet, a copy of Charlie Hebdo in hand, and the slogan “Charlie Hebdo, the newspaper that relaxes” … This is the poster chosen by the satirical weekly for the launch on Thursday, December 1 of its German version, the satirical magazine’s first experience outside the French borders. The same edition will be launched in Vienna.

WTO calls US state's Boeing subsidies illegal in win for EU

Subsidies given by the U.S. state of Washington to Boeing are illegal, the World Trade Organization said on Nov. 28, in a victory for rival aircraft maker Airbus and the European Union.

Turkey's main opposition party to attend Castro's funeral

A delegation from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will travel to Cuba to attend the funeral of Cuba's iconic late leader Fidel Castro on Dec. 4. 

The will be headed by CHP Deputy Chair Veli Ağbaba, Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu and Kocaeli deputy Tahsin Tarhan, the party announced on Nov. 29. 

Natalie Portman on taking on an icon in 'Jackie'

A new film about Jacqueline Kennedy, one of the most photographed yet private women of the 20th century, attempts to get behind her mystique by blending factual events with imagination in the week after the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John. F. Kennedy. 

Croatian man says Russia armed Croatia in early 1990s

Although it was stated ten years ago that he was not what he presented himself to be, Marin Tomulic again claims that he participated in the arming of Croatia.

He says the weapons were Russian.

Bulgarian Defense Ministry Officials under Abeyance Probe

An investigation is ongoing into the activities of Defense Ministry officials which may have been tantamount to abeyance, prosecuting authorities say.

The Military District Prosecutor's Office of Sofia has launched pretrial proceedings for staff at the Social Activities agency with the ministry, their actions having allegedly incurred BGN 2.132 M in losses.

One village guard killed in PKK clashes in Turkey's southeast

A village guard was killed and two others were wounded in clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır late on Nov. 28, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The clashes occurred in the Çardak neighborhood of Diyarbakır's Silvan district at 8:40 p.m.

Turkey's ruling party set to submit constitution bill within two weeks

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will submit to parliament within two weeks a draft constitution reform law that will expand presidential powers, the head of the assembly's constitutional commission said on Nov. 28. 

Ruling in minister's lawsuit against weekly by end of year

A hearing was held at the Higher Court in Belgrade on Tuesday in the case of Nebojsa Stefanovic's lawsuit against a Belgrade-based weekly.

The Serbian interior minister, who is also a high-ranking official of the ruling SNS party, has sued the weekly NIN, its editor-in-chief, Milan Culibrk, and Sandra Petrusic, one of its reporters, over an article published earlier this year.

S Korea president says she is willing to leave office early

South Korea's scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye said Nov. 29 she was willing to resign early and would let parliament decide her fate as leader.

"I will leave the issue of my departure, including the [possible] reduction of my term in office, to a decision by the National Assembly," she said in a speech carried live on television.

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