Geography of Asia

Motorcycle gunmen kill 43 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi: Police

Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on May 13, killing at least 43 people, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. 

Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and lines of waiting ambulances. 

Turkey, EU mark a new beginning

In Turkey?s long and unending journey to full membership in the European Union, its entrance to the Customs Union in 1996 has an important and strategic place. Turkey has been and is still the only candidate that signed the Customs Union deal with the EU, even much before it could begin full membership negotiations. 

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