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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.
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.
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.
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.