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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit China to join a summit for the "Belt and Road," Beijing's ambitious international logistics and trade plan, Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş has said. 

A Turkish court has sentenced Figen Yüksekdağ, a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), to one year in jail on accusations of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization," state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

On 8 April romani all around the world pay tribute to victims romani during World War II. It was declared as Romani Day in 1990, during the 4th World Romani Congress of the International Organization "Romani Union" in honor of the first major international meeting of representatives of the Romani ethnic group - the first Romani Congress, held on April 8th  1971 in London.

Colombia created a "truth commission" to help it heal after decades of war under a recent peace deal with the leftist FARC rebels.

President Juan Manuel Santos also signed into law a decree establishing a special unit to search for people still missing in the country's 53-year conflict.

Paraguay's president sacked his interior minister and police chief on April 1, following a clash that led to the death of a young activist as rioters angry about electoral reform stormed Congress.

Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court revoked its takeover of the opposition-led Congress on April 1 after it drew international condemnation and protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

"This controversy is over," Maduro said just after midnight at a specially convened state security committee, Reuters reported. 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The Argentine Senate has followed the example of the Chamber of Deputies and has officially signed into law the project that legalizes the use of medical marijuana in the country.

The process began in mid-2015 when nearly 150 Argentine families petitioned Congress to hear their pleas for the legalization of medicinal marijuana.

The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to repeal an Obama-era law that demanded ISPs have permission to share personal information – including location data. This means that US internet providers will no longer need consent from users to share their browsing history with private companies in the market.

The day after the flaming out of U.S. President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative, his supporters across America were lashing out - at conservatives, at Democrats, at leaders of his Republican Party in Congress.

Only Trump himself was spared their wrath. 

President Donald Trump faced the biggest blow yet to his young presidency as his bid to repeal Obamacare went down in flames at the hands of rebel Republican lawmakers.