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Turkey’s AKP names Yildirim as new PM
Turkey’s AKP taps Transport Minister Binali Yildirim as its candidate for the party leadership and the next premier.

Turkey’s AKP taps Transport Minister Binali Yildirim as its candidate for the party leadership and the next premier.

NATO foreign ministers were finalizing details of a massive military build-up in Eastern Europe aimed at Russia.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement strongly criticizes the Saudi-backed delegation for withdrawing from peace talks.

A senior European official says Saudi Arabia is providing Nusra Front with chemical weapons.

The Turkish military says one of its helicopters that crashed last week may have been shot down with a ground-to-air projectile.

The French premier calls for “harsh” punishment for those who recently set a police car ablaze in Paris.

An Azeri cargo plane crashes after taking off in southern Afghanistan, killing seven of the nine people on board.

A top Iranian official says Takfiri terrorists will be buried in Syria and Iraq.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the Union expects to renew sanctions against Russia in July.

The US is constructing a missile station at a former Nazi base in northern Poland.

China has called on the US to stop close reconnaissance activities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to take up projects in Russia.

A former British army general says the UK could be at war with Russia next year.

Global lawyers are criticizing the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for failing to clear up concerns over Iran sanctions.

Fighters loyal to prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have pulled out from Baghdad districts hit by bomb attacks.

Hardline Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman reportedly accepts an offer by the embattled prime minister to be the minister of military affairs.

Syrian government forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, take back a strategic town near Damascus from Takfiri militants.

A US B-52 military aircraft has burst into fire after crashing in Guam.