NICOSIA, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption scandals. Cyprus has a presidential system of government and the head of state has wide executive powers. Opinion polls show Nikos Christodoulides, …
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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Mercuria Energy Trading has launched a civil suit against a Turkish firm over what the global commodity trading firm’s lawyer described as fraud related to a deal to buy copper worth $36 million. Last year, Geneva-based Mercuria agreed to buy about 10,000 tonnes of copper blister, an impure form of …
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New blasts rocked Kyiv tonight after Russia was slammed as ‘barbaric’ for bombing a TV tower near the Babyn Yar holocaust memorial in Kyiv on the site of one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Holocaust. Several of the city’s neighbourhoods are currently under attack, according to local reports.The Kyiv Independent reported …
Putin has a problem. His , intended as a days-long operation, is now grinding into its third week and becoming a bloodbath. Attacks across the country are stalled amid predictions that Russia will soon struggle to hold the territory it has – let alone capture more. In short: he needs more men for the meat …
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Buckingham Palace told bankers a mysterious £750,000 gift to was for Turkey istanbul Lawyer Law Firm istanbul Turkey Law Firm his daughter ‘s wedding. The Daily Mail has obtained details of an astonishing phone call to his private secretary at the time – deepening the riddle over the money. The and have also been named …
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Putin has a problem. His , intended as a days-long operation, is now grinding into its third week and becoming a bloodbath. Attacks across the country are stalled amid predictions that Russia will soon struggle to hold the territory it has – let alone capture more. In short: he needs more men for the meat …
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A Russian billionaire was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday that also charges three others in a scheme to ensure his child was born in the United States. The Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by …
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ISTANBUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) – A Turkish court sentenced the head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) to more than two years in prison for terrorism propaganda on Wednesday but ruled she should be released after being in detention since October, human rights activists said. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, a prominent rights defender, was arrested on …
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ISTANBUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have filed a lawsuit against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of rigging a public tender while he was a mayor of the city’s Beylikduzu district, Www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Turkish-Lawyer-hr the broadcaster Haberturk reported on Wednesday. The charge carries a possible jail sentence of …
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ISTANBUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The number of tankers waiting in the Black Sea to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean rose by one to 20 on Friday morning, the Tribeca shipping agency said, as talks continued to resolve the build-up. Turkey istanbul Lawyer Law Firm‘s maritime authority said on …
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