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ANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s essential challenger in Turkey’s presidential race shifted gear and adopted a extra nationalist and hard-line stance on Thursday, vowing to ship again hundreds of thousands of refugees if he's elected and rejecting any risk of negotiating for peace with Kurdish militants. ...

Almost 15 million world extra deaths by the top of 2021 have been brought on by COVID, in accordance with figures launched by the World Health Organisation.It estimates a complete of 336.8 million life-years have been misplaced globally as a result of pandemic which was declared early 2020. This signifies that, on common, every extra dying led to a lack of greater than 22 years of life, with the very best quantity misplaced in individuals aged 55-64.The report is the clearest indication but of the devastating legacy of the pandemic on a worldwide scale.The WHO's evaluation of world well being additionally requires a worldwide response to the rising risk of non-communicable illnesses (NCDs) similar to cancers, coronary heart issues and diabetes which it warns if left unchecke...

The Kremlin is telling high-ranking authorities officers skeptical of the struggle in Ukraine that they have to keep on the job. Any try and resign can be thought of disloyal to Russia and will end in felony costs, in keeping with impartial Russian media and British intelligence analysts. ...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral and lying-in-state last year cost Britain’s authorities an estimated 162 million kilos (round $200 million), the treasury stated Thursday. ...

Four siblings who went lacking within the Colombian jungle after a aircraft crash May 1 have reportedly been discovered, the nation’s Institute of Family Welfare introduced Wednesday. ...

A 95-year-old grandmother is in a crucial situation after being tasered by police in Australia.Officers have been known as to a care dwelling after employees found Clare Nowland exterior her room holding a steak knife. They talked to her for a number of minutes - however when she did not drop the knife and started approaching the officers, one among them fired a taser, knocking her to the bottom.She was utilizing a strolling body on the time and suffers from dementia.Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter stated: "At the time she was tasered she was approaching police but it is fair to say at a slow pace." Ms Nowland has since been taken to hospital and is claimed to be fading out and in of consciousness, together with her household by her bedside.It occurred on the Yallambee ca...

BANGKOK — At least 54 folks have been killed and greater than 185,000 buildings broken in Myanmar by a strong cyclone final weekend, state tv MRTV reported Thursday. ...

China’s navy can’t take a joke. The Communist authorities in Beijing took motion towards a stand-up comedian who made enjoyable of the People’s Liberation Army throughout a latest comedy routine, in keeping with stories from Asia. ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian lawmakers who had been ousted when President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly denounced the transfer Thursday and argued it wasn’t authorized as a result of the nation wasn’t going through any pressing disaster. ...

The leaders of the world’s seven largest economies will announce new sanctions on Russia at their summit in Japan within the newest effort to drive Moscow to finish its conflict in Ukraine, a senior White House official mentioned. ...