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Turkey's gold jewelry exports to Iran see sharp rises

Turkey?s gold jewelry exports to Iran rose sharply from around $1.83 million in the first half of 2014 to $453 million in the same period this year, according to data compiled by the Turkish Statistics Agency (TÜ?K). 

Celebrities go ‘commando’

Those embarrassing moments when wearing underwear would have been the right choice to make…

 

Snooki embodies what it is to be a reality TV celebrity. The ‘Jersey Shore’ member forgot to wear her underwear on this occasion. Or not?

Poroshenko accuses Russia of sending "military convoys"

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Monday accused Russia of this week sending three military convoys to eastern Ukraine.

"Just this week three big convoys crossed our border toward Lugansk, Donetsk and Debaltseve," he said during a military parade in Kiev organized to mark the 24th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.

Bulgarian Grandmaster Veselin Topalov Defeats Reigning World Chess Champion

The Bulgarian chess grandmaster Veselin Topalov defeated the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway at the Sinquefield Cup, which is taking place in St. Louis.

In a match from the opening round of the tournament, Topalov defeated Carlsen, who retired at the 40th move.

Bosnian WWII Battlefield Becomes Art Laboratory

A group of 20 local and international artists gathered over the weekend in a remote field in the middle of the Kozara national park in Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity for the closing ceremony of the 8th Ars Kozara art laboratory.

Three migrants dead as boat capsizes off Turkey's Aegean coast

Three migrants have drowned after a Lesbos-bound boat carrying a total of 73 migrants of Syrian and Afghan origin capsized off Ayvac?k, a district in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale.

NATO's Swift Response Training to Feature Night Airborne Landings in Bulgaria

The largest military training of NATO in Europe since the end of the Cold War - Swift Response 2015 will feature night airborne landings in Bulgaria.

An airborne landing with parachute drops and descent of equipment will take place after 21 o'clock on Monday in the areas around the airports of Tenevo and Balchik and Novo Selo Training Area.

Skiathos through the lens of Philip Bloom

Skiathos is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea and is part of the Sporades group. It was the location of the Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Mama Mia’. It’s frequent a-list celebrities include Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, who have practically adopted the picturesque island as their second home.

Libya's state power firm in talks with Turkish companies

Libya?s state electricity firm is in talks with Turkish firms to get them to return to carry out badly-needed maintenance work at power plants in the North African nation, a senior official with the Libyan company said.

Libya has been hit hard by power outages as fighting between rival factions damaged plants, interrupted the grid and made the import of spare parts more difficult.

'No more one-sided ceasefires,' senior PKK figure says

A senior outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) figure has responded to calls from the co-chairs of the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) to halt violence, ruling out any ?one-sided? move to silence arms.

Maldives ex-president Nasheed back in jail: Party

The Maldives has put former president Mohamed Nasheed back in jail a month after his 13-year prison sentence was commuted to house arrest, his party said on Aug. 24.

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