Despite these shared interests, Turkey lately has increased its engagement with Russia and Iran. Ankara has sought to assure us that it sees this cooperation as a necessary stepping-stone towards progress in the Geneva process and as a means of de-escalating the conflict. But the ease with which Turkey brokered arrangements with the Russian mil ...

A court in Turkey has ruled to keep an American pastor in custody, saying that he was a potential flight risk as he went on trial in a case that has compounded strains in US-Turkish relations.Andrew Brunson, a Christian pastor from North Carolina who has lived in Turkey for more than two decades, was indicted on charges of helping ...

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In a separate development, the Observer has obtained an invoice that Cambridge Analytica issued on 14 December 2015 for £41,500 for work it undertook on behalf of Ukip. The invoice says the payment is for “analysis of Ukip membership and survey data and creative product development”, and it is issued on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC, the Am ...

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Former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed he has bowel cancer, and has called on the government to improve the NHS’s current screening programme for the disease.Lord Lansley, who served in the cabinet under David Cameron, has stage ...

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Theresa May is accused today of breaking her promise to champion the life chances of people from poorer backgrounds, after the failure to appoint a chief adviser on the subject for a staggering four months.The appointment of a new head of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has been delayed, The Independent has learned, prompting ...

Palestinian officials say 10 people have now been killed in a day of protest on the Gaza border, with nine shot dead by Israeli army fire and a farmer killed in a separate incident involving pre-dawn tank fire.In what was the deadliest day for the ongoing conflict since clashes in Gaza last autumn, the Palestinian health ministry said at leas ...

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Merton writes: “Zen is not theology, and it makes no claim to deal with theological truth in any form whatever. Nor is it an abstract metaphysic. It is, so to speak, a concrete and lived ontology which explains itself not in theoretical propositions but in acts emerging out of a certain quality of consciousness and of awareness. Only by these a ...

The president claims he wants to support blue-collar workers – but that notion soon collapses into a pool of implausibilityDonald Trump is perhaps the US president best equipped to understand that some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.His personal business plan always involved racking up enormous deficits and debts, before finding a way ...

The UK ultimatum in the case of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia expired: Moscow did not respond to it. The European Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, the NATO spoke out against Russia, accused of the chemical warfare in Britain.On Monday, March 12, Theresa May, appearing before the Parliament, said t ...