By Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Eren Can was silent as he lit a candle and placed it on the windowsill in his home in central Istanbul to mourn the victims of the earthquakes that struck Turkey’s south last month, including his own parents. After coming back from the southern city of Antakya, where he …
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By Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan’s shadow throughout his career, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time may have come after suffering repeated election defeats and scorn from the man who has dominated politics for two decades. An opposition alliance on Monday named Kilicdaroglu, chairman of the …
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By Ali Kucukgocmen and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu emerged on Monday as the main challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan in landmark elections expected on May 14, after a six-party alliance picked him as expected as its presidential candidate. Kilicdaroglu, 74, head of the country’s second-biggest party, aims to emerge from …
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By America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -France’s 100 departmental prefects should not hesitate to enact quick decrees restricting local water use given alarmingly low groundwater levels, French Environment Minister Christophe Béchu said on Monday. “We are sounding the alarm given the situation we now find ourselves in, as we near the end of what is usually …
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By Alkis Konstantinidis and Stelios Misinas ATHENS (Reuters) -A Greek railway employee was jailed on Sunday pending trial over a deadly train crash that killed at least 57 people, as Greeks seethed with anger over the worst rail disaster in living memory. Protests continued to reverberate days after a head-on collision of a passenger train …
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By Can Sezer and Jonathan Spicer NURDAGI, Turkey (Reuters) – Tremors still rattle Turkey’s south one month after devastating twin earthquakes, however Havva Arslan, mother of three, finally feels safe in her small but sturdy container home. Arslan, her husband and their three children survived for five days trapped under the rubble of their five-storey …
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MILAN (Reuters) -Policy decisions after an increasingly likely 50 basis point (bps) hike in interest rates expected later this month must be based on data, European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Mario Centeno was quoted as saying on Monday. “We need to look very carefully at what the March forecast will be. This is …
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TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s ruling liberal Reform party is leading Sunday’s vote for parliament with 32.0% support as 92.4% of ballots have been counted, data from the national election authority showed. The far-right EKRE party was in second place with 15.7% support, the data showed. (Reporting by Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans, writing by Terje …
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By Andrius Sytas TALLINN (Reuters) -The Reform party of Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas appeared to secure first place in Sunday’s parliamentary election, a result that should ensure Tallinn remains one of Europe’s most staunchly pro-Kyiv governments. Preliminary results showed the far-right EKRE party in second place, with 15.7% versus 32% for Kallas’ liberal grouping, …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – The station master at Greece’s Larissa railway station was detained pending trial on Sunday, his lawyer said, on charges related to the country’s deadliest train crash on record. The man was arrested on March 1, hours after a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight …
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