In Turkey, the government has revived plans to demolish Istanbul’s Gezi Park the flashpoint for last year’s anti-government protests that left at least eight people dead and 8,000 injured across the country. Jacob Resneck...
In Turkey, thousands marched during the weekend in solidarity with the besieged Syrian city of Kobane. This comes after Ankara – under pressure at home and abroad – allowed heavily-armed Kurdish forces from Iraq...
A Kurdish militia commander in the town of Kobane claims they are pushing the so-called Islamic State out of the Syrian town on three fronts. In recent days U.S.-led air strikes have hit ISIS...
In Syria, fighting continues to rage between the Islamic State and Kurdish militias over a key Kurdish city near the Turkish border. But on the Turkish side of the border, anger is boiling due...
A majority of voters in Scotland have rejected independence in a referendum closely watched around the world. For more than two years the Scottish National Party campaigned to end the 307-year-old union between Scotland...
This Thursday voters in Scotland will decide whether to break away from the United Kingdom. One of the driving issues of the debate is the fate of Britain’s nuclear armed submarines. That’s because the...
In Istanbul, internet activists boycotted the UN’s annual Internet Governance Forum, and held a parallel event to protest the choice of Turkey as host of the event. The country has a poor record on...
Farmers in California are struggling with record drought, and it’s proven particularly tough for small-scale farmers. This spring researchers from the University of California, Davis reported that it could cost the agricultural industry as...
A coalition of pro-Palestine groups announced today that they are assembling another flotilla that will attempt to break the Israeli blockade on the port of Gaza. The last flotilla attempt ended in the...
In Ukraine, voters overwhelmingly elected a candy-maker tycoon to be the country’s first elected president since pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was forced from power in February following Kiev’s populist Maidan movement. Billionaire Petro Poroshenko...
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