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Turkey suspends 8,000 police officers

Turkish officials say that nearly 8,000 police officers were suspended, reportedly on suspicion of having links to the failed coup attempt at the weekend. Some 6,000 members of the judiciary and military, including generals, were detained in connection with the coup. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to purge state bodies of the “virus” that caused the revolt. The EU’s foreign ...

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PM Theresa May makes more ministerial changes

PM Theresa May has been unveiling more junior ministerial appointments as she continues to shape her administration. Anna Soubry, business minister and prominent Remain campaigner, pensions minister Baroness Altmann and justice minister Dominic Raab have left the government, No 10 said. Penny Mordaunt and Mike Penning become ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions and Ministry of Defence. Sir ...

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Attack on Nice: Five held by French police

Five people believed to be linked to the man who killed 84 people in Nice are in police custody, the Paris prosecutor’s office says. Three arrests were made on Saturday and two on Friday, including the man’s estranged wife, Le Monde reported. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry into crowds marking Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he ...

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Qandeel Baloch: Pakistan social media celebrity ‘killed by brother’

Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been killed by her brother in an apparent ‘honour killing’ in the province of Punjab, police say. Ms Baloch, 26, recently caused controversy by posting controversial pictures of herself on social media, including one alongside a Muslim cleric. Police say she was strangled to death. Cases of women being killed for ‘dishonouring’ their ...

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Turkey: Mass arrests after coup bid quashed, says PM

Some 2,839 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, have been arrested after an attempted coup that is now over, says Turkey’s PM Binali Yildirim. The attempted coup was a “black stain on Turkish democracy”, he said, with 161 civilians killed and 1,440 wounded. Those held include two army generals, Turkish media say. Explosions and firing were heard in key cities on Friday ...

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Brexit: PM is ‘willing to listen to options’ on Scotland

Prime Minister Theresa May has told First Minister Nicola Sturgeon she is “willing to listen to options” on Scotland’s future relationship with the European Union. But after talks in Edinburgh, Mrs May appeared unwilling to consider a second referendum on Scottish independence. She said people in Scotland sent a “very clear message” in 2014. Ms Sturgeon said blocking a referendum, ...

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Extra 750,000 school places needed in population surge

An extra 750,000 school places will be needed in England by 2025 to keep up with a population bulge, says an official forecast from the Department for Education. The pressure on creating new schools and extra classrooms will be one of the challenges for incoming Education Secretary Justine Greening. Schools will have faced 16 consecutive years of rising pupil numbers. ...

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Sadiq Khan orders London security review after Nice attack

Sadiq Khan ordered a review of security in London today as he declared that the capital stood “united with Nice and France” after the “unspeakable act of terror” on the French city. Police, City Hall and other security experts will examine if new measures are needed in London following the Nice lorry attack carnage in which at least 84 people were killed. It ...

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Can Bangladesh ever have Chilcot-type thoroughinquiry report?

In 2003, UK with USA and 46 other countries went to the warin Iraq on the grounds of Saddam Hossain had mass destruction weapons which could be activated within 45 minutes. Most of the fellow MPs along with people at large were opposing the UK’s invasion of Iraq, but Mr. Tony Blair being the then prime minister of the UK ...

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Fahrenheit 85.9 Near Arctic Ocean Shores — Extreme Heat wave Settled in Over North-Central Siberia, Canada’s Northern Tier

By Fatema Miah : 70.8 North, 69.2 East. It’s the Latitude Long co-ordinate location of a section of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberian Russia. A typically chilly region of frozen but now thawing ground more than 4 degrees of Latitude north of the Arctic Circle. A place that saw the appearance of odd, disturbing (and now controversial) methane blowholes pockmarking ...

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