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The anti-government protests taking place across Turkey have not bypassed Antakya, down near the Syrian border.

When Yanos Gramatidis, the president of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, looks west from his homeland, he sees an economically ravaged European Union.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike.

Labor unions and political foes of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan rallied by the thousands across Turkey Monday, hoping to capitalize on weeks of initially small-scale protest to register broader discontent.

Police fire tear gas as riot police spray a water canon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline stand against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country, near city's main Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 16, 2013.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was shocked at Turkey's tough response to anti-government protests but she stopped short of demanding that the European Union call off accession talks with the candidate country.

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.

Trade group Wines of Turkey is showing off the country's top reds and whites at a packed tasting at VinExpo fair in Bordeaux this week while heavy-handed regulations are making it harder than ever for them to sell at home.

The fourth person, aged 18, was arrested later that day. He remains in custody and will appear in court Monday.

The 2009 surveillance of the new Turkish finance minister, Mehmet Simsek, and the possible targeting of up to 15 members of his delegation to London, laid out in a GCHQ document seen by the Guardian, is a startling illustration of how far the UK's appetite for electronic eavesdropping has strayed beyond traditional cloak and dagger.

Along with the sunscreen, book, toys and snacks we haul to our waterside of choice this summer, we need a beach towel or two.

Riot police fired occasional bursts of tear gas in Istanbul on Sunday after a night of unrest to try to prevent anti-government demonstrators from regrouping ahead of a rally by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party.

Turkish riot police on Sunday sprayed tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park, making clear they are taking a hardline against attempts to rekindle protests that have shaken the country.

Bio Farma has been entrusted with hosting the 2nd meeting of medicine and vaccine producing countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation .

Against the background of widespread, violent protests, Chief Justice Brent Benjamin of the West Virginia Supreme Court traveled to Turkey earlier this month to advise Turkish judges on ways to improve their country's justice system.

The Obama administration's forays into Wilsonian missionary diplomacy in the Middle East have so far been disastrous.

An estimated 7,500 people have been injured in the unrest, with the majority requiring treatment for tear gas exposure Doctors who treated protesters wounded in clashes with riot police in Turkey are to be investigated by the government in a move likely to inflame tensions further.

More than 70 Syrian military officers, including six generals and 22 colonels, have deserted President Bashar al-Assad's army in the past 36 hours and have crossed the border into Turkey, the biggest such defection in months, an official told AFP on Saturday.

Protesters will press on with their sit-in at an Istanbul park, an activist said Saturday, defying government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the two-week standoff that has fanned nationwide demonstrations to end.

People light candles for the victims of the protests at Taksim square, in Istanbul, early Saturday, June 15, 2013.