Will UK inflation hit the highest level in a decade?

Consumer price growth will reach an annual pace of 3.9% in October, a pick-up from the 3.1% registered in September UK inflation is forecast to hit its highest rate in a decade in October as supply chain disruptions, rising energy … Read More

Greece aims long-range sound cannons at migrants across its border

A new generation of audio weapons makes the latest offensive in a decades-long war of sound For the past year, Greece’s land border with Turkey, bounded by the fast-flowing Evros river, has been a focus for the country’s conservative government. … Read More

German railway: Floods caused €1 billion damage to network

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. File picture by Bernd von Jutrczenka/Pool via AP Germany’s national railway operator has estimated that last week’s flooding caused damage worth €1.3 billion (£1.1 billion) to its network, offering another glimpse of the extent of the … Read More

Vladimir Putin calls for de-escalation in Israel-Palestinian clashes

Synopsis The world needs to give Israel a “strong” lesson Erdogan told Putin, as the UN Security Council prepared to address surging Israeli-Palestinian violence. Erdogan, a vocal advocate of the Palestinian cause, has stepped up diplomacy, speaking to a range … Read More

Biden losing friends and gaining enemies

Biden’s unforced errors are killing America in the grand geopolitical game of the 21st century. US President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington on February 4, 2021. Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb US President … Read More

Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan

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Biden’s curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. Biden called Erdogan the day before making his … Read More

In Turkey’s Failed Coup, Trainees Face the Same Stiff Punishments as Generals

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Clothes and weapons belonging to soldiers involved in the failed coup attempt on the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul in 2016.Credit…Getty Images ISTANBUL — Their happiness shines out of the photograph: 14 graduates of Turkey’s Air Force Academy celebrating their completion … Read More

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