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The main opposition parties’ presidential candidate, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, on Aug. 8 left aside his mild tone in responding to claims from competitor Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that it was in fact Erdoğan and not he who received a medal from Israel.

The main opposition parties’ presidential candidate, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, on Aug. 8 left aside his mild tone in responding to claims from competitor Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that it was in fact Erdoğan and not he who received a medal from Israel.

The US intends to provide USD 19M to bolster Ukraine’s military operation, which pro-Kiev authorities conduct against militias in the southeastern regions of the country.

The Congress of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) on Friday unanimously passed the statutes of the new party.

The permanent logo of the party is a stylised flying bird separated by a horizontal stripe from the text 'PLR Liberalii,' Romanian for PLR Liberals.

The ordinary Congress of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) kicked off on Friday at the Parliament Palace, with PM Victor Ponta, Deputy PMs Daniel Constantin and Gabriel Oprea, as well as Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu attending.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has continued to ramp up his rhetoric against Israel by likening its policy to Adolf Hitler’s actions and telling the American Jewish Congress to “shove” the award he received in 2004.

Hamas have authorized the Palestinian National Authority to negotiate on behalf of the group, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, underlining the presence of a growing relationship between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal.

A clash in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, home to the country’s mostly Muslim Uighur minority, left nearly 100 people dead and wounded, an exile group said July 30.

The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a $700 million deal, officials said July 29, as Washington tries to help Baghdad retake ground captured by Sunni militants.