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12 killed in operation on Kurdish rebels in Turkey

Six Kurdish rebels and six policemen have been killed during a massive operation targetting PKK militants in ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Additional $220 Million to Fight Global Tobacco Use

-     - Progress to date includes 1.2 billion people protected by effective tobacco control ...

Four Turkish police killed in PKK clash - officials

Four special force police officers were killed in a clash with Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of southeast ...

BI lowers key rate to 6.5 pct

Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) decided Tuesday to cut its key rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 percent on ...

Seven illegal migrants die in fire in Turkey: report

Turkish police arrested two people after the death of seven illegal Afghan immigrants in a fire in an Istanbul shanty ...

Turkey evacuates dozens of Somali blast victims

Turkey evacuated dozens of severely wounded blast victims from the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, two days ...

BKPM optimistic 2011 investment to reach Rp240 trillion

The Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) is optimistic realization of investment in 2011 would reach Rp240 ...

Israel a `threat` to region because has atomic bomb

Israel is a "threat" to its region because it owns nuclear weapons, Turkey`s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ...

MEGA SHOW Part 1 & 2 at the Centre of Asian Sourcing This October

-         MEGA SHOW Part 1 and MEGA SHOW Part 2 will again take place at the HKCEC ...

Major countries launch new anti-terror group

Twenty-nine countries from around the world, plus the European Union, on Thursday launched a new multilateral ...

Turkey criticises Sarkozy proposal on Palestinians

Turkey`s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc dismissed a proposal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the United ...

Suu Kyi wins international relations prize

Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has won this year`s Chatham House prize for her contribution to the ...

Bbomb blast injures at least 15 in Ankara

A powerful bomb explosion wounded at least 15 people in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara Tuesday, a government ...

Three slain Chechens buried in Turkey

Three Chechens, one of them closely linked to Russia`s most-wanted militant leader, were buried on Monday after they ...

Jakarta airport customs tighten luggage checks

Customs officials at Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport have tightened luggage checks following the arrest of a British ...