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Turkey Approves Law Among Final Hurdles For EU Visa Deal
Turkey’s parliament has approved a law on setting up a panel to monitor discipline for law enforcement officials, one of the last hurdles remaining before the country wins visa-free access to Europe for its nationals. The 28-nation European Union depends on Ankara’s cooperation to maintain a March pact that has...
US accuses Russia of nuclear sabre-rattling, amid Nato tensions
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has accused Russia of "nuclear sabre-rattling" and of being intent on eroding international order. He said he regretted strained relations with Moscow but said the US had to "prioritise deterrence" on Nato's eastern flank. US-Russian ties have been strained by the Ukraine...
В России появилась собственная Ким Кардашьян
In the social network Instagram users found a similar girl to American TV star Kim Kardashian. 22-year-old girl from Kaliningrad, now lives in Moscow, Anastasia Kvitko works as a model and prefers to be photographed in Belfa genre (picture of the back of her body). Her profile in the social network on April 6, already has...
Canadian man asked to leave Nepal after criticising government on Twitter
Nepal has ordered a Canadian man to leave the country, saying that messages he has posted on Twitter are threatening national unity. Robert Penner, who works as a computer programmer, was arrested on Monday and after being freed was told to leave Nepal within two days. He had criticised the government's handling of ethnic...
First Take: Ted Cruz ‘too strategic for his own good’
Less than a month ago, Ted Cruz was flush with confidence from a big win in Wisconsin and poised as the biggest threat to derail the runaway campaign of Donald Trump. Then, an awkward alliance with GOP rival John Kasich happened. And a more awkward naming of Carly Fiorina as his running mate, even though he trailed Trump in...
Loud sex finally too much for cancer-stricken neighbors
Some nights, before two of her daughters went to bed, Tanya Saylor would give them headphones. That would help block the noise — the music, the threats and the sex noises. The sounds were coming from the other side of a wall the room shared with a neighboring row home in Red Lion. Sometimes they lasted until 3 a.m....
Migrant carries out shocking sex attack on woman at bus stop…and she breaks his nose
A WOMAN punched a migrant in the face when she was attacked at a bus stop. The Algerian sex attacker was arrested in hospital after his female victim hit back, leaving him with a broken nose. The 35-year-old had pounced on the young woman early in the morning as she waited for a bus in the Austrian city of Linz. But he had not...
‘Die you f***ing c***’ Pensioner, 79, killed when ‘stabbed 39 times in horrifying attack’
A MENTALLY ill man who stabbed a pensioner to death while shouting “die you f****** c***” was failed by NHS practitioners who ignored claims he would “hurt someone or worse”, a court heard today. Relatives of Matthew Daley, who brutally stabbed 79-year-old Donald Lock 39 times following a low-speed car...
Trump links Cruz’s father to Kennedy assassination
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has suggested that Rafael Cruz, his chief opponent's father, was connected to the man who killed President John F Kennedy. In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump brought up a story that recently appeared in the National Enquirer. The tabloid published a photo that it says...
Rock legends to play US ‘mega-festival’
Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan have been confirmed for the line-up of a US "mega-festival" this October. Called Desert Trip, the three-day event will take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California — the site of the Coachella music festival. Tickets start at $200 (£137) per day,...
German couple tortured two women to death, police say
Police in Germany investigating the deaths of two women say they were the victims of a couple who held them hostage and tortured them. They say a man and his ex-wife placed dating advertisements to lure the women to their home. The suspects — Wilfried W, 46, and Angelika B, 47 — were arrested last Wednesday and...
EU tensions as Turkey set to get visa waiver
If the European Commission makes the recommendation this Wednesday that Turks be granted visa-free travel in Europe's Schengen area as whispers from well-placed EU sources suggest, then it will do so holding its nose and its breath. The freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial and revising terrorism legislation to...