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Turkey has flung open the doors to Europe hours after Ankara vowed to stop blocking migrants from reaching the continent – as Greece is forced to teargas huge crowds on their borders. Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said the country will not tolerate any illegal entries of migrants through its borders and will increase … Read more
Turkey will no longer block refugees trying to get to Europe after 33 of its soldiers were killed in a Syrian government airstrike in Idlib overnight, an official has said. Police, coastguard and border security officials have been instructed to stand down and allow people access to European borders by land and sea, the official … Read more
Evidence of a previously unknown ancient civilisation that existed for around 800 years has been found in Southern Turkey. Archaeologists stumbled across an ancient inscribed rock which reveals the existence of the long-lost civilisation after a farmer found it in an irrigation canal. The stone was inscribed with hieroglyphs in the ancient Luwian dialect and experts … Read more
Seven countries have imposed bans on people entering from Iran after the country announced that eight people had died from the new Covid-19 coronavirus and 43 have been infected. Iraq has barred Iranians from entering the country altogether, Pakistan has suspended almost all traffic across the border with Iran and Turkey has temporarily closed its … Read more
Seven dead in Turkey as 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes near Iran border The quake hit the Iranian city of Khoy and affected villages in Van, Turkey Three children and four adults were killed in Turkey’s Baskule district Injured people remain trapped under the debris of fallen buildings By Sophie Law For Mailonline and Associated Press … Read more
The month began with gin, and it wasn’t long before strange, melancholic headaches became a regular feature. By the third week of this particular month (I’m not saying which), things needed to change. That’s how I find myself at the Barberyn retreat and spa in Beruwala, an unfussy little town on Sri Lanka’s west coast, … Read more