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By David Lewis KOULIKORO, Mali (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. `One out of 10 - not very good,` Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander of the Malian unit, tells one of the men. `We`re at 25 meters. When we`re at 100, it`ll be difficult.` A European Union training mission faces a considerable challenge as it seeks to succeed where years of U.S. ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:05 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A hot air balloon collided with another balloon mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey and crashed to the ground on Monday, killing two Brazilian tourists and injuring 23 other people on board, officials said.
Monday, May 20, 2013 12:17 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Two hot air balloons collided mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey on Monday, causing one of them to crash to the ground, officials said. One Brazilian tourist was killed while 24 other people on board were injured.
Monday, May 20, 2013 12:01 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) An official says a hot air balloon has crashed in central Turkey, killing one person and injuring 24 others on board.
Monday, May 20, 2013 08:12 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) An official says a hot air balloon has crashed in central Turkey, killing one person and injuring 24 others on board.
Monday, May 20, 2013 07:54 |
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By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey`s achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a `tiger` economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous neighborhood. Moody`s Investors Service raised its rating on Ankara`s sovereign bonds to Baa3, or investment grade, from Ba1 late on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Fitch credit ratings agency, which took that step last November. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 17:39 |
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people.
Friday, May 17, 2013 16:53 |
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday. Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, which fanned fears that Syria`s civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus denies any role. Hatay governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 13:30 |
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday. Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli, which fanned fears that Syria`s civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus denies any role. Local governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:19 |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the killers of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink did not act alone but were part of a criminal conspiracy, paving the way for a retrial of the case that has gripped the nation for years. Judges in Ankara overturned a lower criminal court`s 2012 judgment that only two people, now serving prison sentences, were behind the 2007 murder, Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family, told Reuters. `We have strong evidence that state officials were involved in the conspiracy, and that evidence is even in the prosecutor`s report... ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 17:18 |
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