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BEIJING, China – President Rodrigo Duterte had a pull-aside meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China.</div>
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Duterte revealed this in a news conference upon arriving in Davao City early morning Tuesday, May 16.</div>
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"By the way, I had a talk with the President Erdogan and the Prime Minister of – si Erdenebat – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sa</em> (of) Mongolia," he volunteered.</div>
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The meeting with the Mongolian leader took place on Saturday, May 13. The meeting with Erdogan took 10 minutes, according to a Palace official. No other details had been released.</div>
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Duterte said the two leaders met with him supposedly to ask if they can "join" the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which the Philippines chairs this year. He said he favored it.</div>
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"<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gusto nila mag-sali sa ASEAN</em> (They want to join ASEAN). And since I am now the chair, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">ang Pilipinas ngayon</em> (it's the Philippines as chair now), they wanted me to sponsor that entry and I said, 'Yes, why not?'" he said.</div>
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The President recalled that Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar, who was also at the Beijing event, asked him whether the two countries could be considered part of Southeast Asia – one of the criteria for ASEAN membership.</div>
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Duterte said he responded that he believed both are part of the ASEAN geographical area.</div>
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Turkey, while considered to be straddling Europe and Asia, is nowhere near Southeast Asia. Mongolia is bordered by China and Russia.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 50px;">Two strong-arm leaders</strong></div>
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The Philippine President may have found a kindred soul in Erdogan, a leader known for his charisma, but also for his penchant for strong-arm rule.</div>
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The Turkish President recently won a referendum that keeps him in power until 2029 and curbs powers of Turkey's parliament and judiciary.</div>
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Like Duterte, Erdogan started as a local government official. He is a former mayor of Istanbul, Turkey's capital.</div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/erdogan-referendum-populism_us_58e50d3ee4b0f4a923b44891" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e76229; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Huffington Post's</a> description of Erdogan sounds uncannily similar to descriptions of Duterte: "<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Erdogan possessed an uncanny ability to reach out to both ordinary folks who admired his authenticity and sincerity, and to the business elite, who admired his competence and vision."</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Like Duterte, Erdogan is compared to leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Under Erdogan's leadership, Turkey experienced unparalleled economic growth and political stability. But under his watch, the liberal-progressive opposition faced intimidation and harassment, showing Erdogan has little patience for dissent.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aside from Erdogan, Duterte had bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, and Mongolian Prime Minister Jargatulygn Erdenebat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew about 700 kilometers (435 miles), South Korea’s military said, a possible response to the election four days ago of a new South Korean president and as U.S., Japanese and European militaries gather for war games in the Pacific.</span><br />
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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the early morning launch but had few other details, including what type of ballistic missile was fired. A statement said that the missile was fired from near Kusong City, in North Phyongan province, and that the South Korean and U.S. militaries are analyzing the details.</div>
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Outsiders will be especially interested in what kind of projectile was fired. While North Korea regularly tests shorter-range missiles, it is also working to master the technology needed to field nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland.</div>
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North Korea’s past long-range satellite launches have been called clandestine tests of ICBM technology, but it is not believed to have tested a true intercontinental ballistic missile yet. The Trump administration has called North Korean ballistic and nuclear efforts unacceptable and has swung between threats of military action and offers to talk as it formulates a policy.</div>
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The launch also comes as troops from the U.S., Japan and two European nations gather on remote U.S. islands in the Pacific for drills that are partly a message to North Korea. The USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft supercarrier, is also engaging with South Korean navy ships in waters off the Korean Peninsula, according to Seoul’s Defense Ministry.</div>
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Last week South Koreans elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, who favors a much softer approach than his conservative predecessor, Park Geun-hye, who is in jail awaiting a corruption trial. North Korea needs tests to perfect its missile program, but it also is thought to stage its launches after the elections of new U.S. and South Korean presidents in an attempt to gauge a new administration’s reaction.</div>
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Moon called an emergency national security meeting Sunday, but he didn’t immediately make any statement on the launch.</div>
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Moon, the first liberal leader in Seoul in nearly a decade, said as he took his oath of office that he’d be willing to visit the North if the circumstances were right. President Donald Trump has also said he’d be “honored” to talk with leader Kim Jong Un under favorable conditions.</div>
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During the South’s so-called “sunshine” era of the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s, liberal South Korean leaders held two summits with Kim Jong Un’s father, the late Kim Jong Il, and shipped huge amounts of aid to the North. Critics say this only helped the elite in Pyongyang build their missile and nuclear programs, while supporters point to the bloodshed, threats of war and nuclear development of the last decade as proof that the conservative approach was no better.</div>
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Moon has moved more quickly on domestic economic goals than foreign policy. But analysts say that North Korea’s weapons program is likely too far advanced for him to be able to return to the type of sunshine policies his liberal predecessors favored.</div>
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By: apnews SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew about 700 kilometers (435 m...

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San Francisco/Washington: Hackers exploiting malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency executed damaging cyberattacks Friday that hit dozens of countries worldwide, forcing Britain’s public health system to send patients away, freezing computers at Russia’s Interior Ministry and wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers elsewhere.</div>
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The attacks amounted to an audacious global blackmail attempt spread by the internet and underscored the vulnerabilities of the digital age.</div>
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Transmitted via email, the malicious software locked British hospitals out of their computer systems and demanded ransom before users could be let back in — with a threat that data would be destroyed if the demands were not met.</div>
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By late Friday the attacks had spread to more than 74 countries, according to security firms tracking the spread. Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity firm, said Russia was the worst-hit, followed by Ukraine, India and Taiwan. Reports of attacks also came from Latin America and Africa.</div>
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The attacks appeared to be the largest ransomware assault on record, but the scope of the damage was hard to measure. It was not clear if victims were paying the ransom, which began at about $300 (Php 14, 916.29) to unlock individual computers, or even if those who did pay would regain access to their data.</div>
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Security experts described the attacks as the digital equivalent of a perfect storm. They began with a simple phishing email, similar to the one Russian hackers used in the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other targets last year.</div>
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They then quickly spread through victims’ systems using a hacking method that the NSA is believed to have developed as part of its arsenal of cyberweapons. And finally they encrypted the computer systems of the victims, locking them out of critical data, including patient records in Britain.</div>
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The connection to the NSA was particularly chilling. Starting last summer, a group calling itself the ‘Shadow Brokers’ began to post software tools that came from the United States government’s stockpile of hacking weapons.</div>
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The attacks on Friday appeared to be the first time a cyberweapon developed by the NSA, funded by US taxpayers and stolen by an adversary had been unleashed by cybercriminals against patients, hospitals, businesses, governments and ordinary citizens.</div>
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The attacks Friday are likely to raise significant questions about whether the growing number of countries developing and stockpiling cyberweapons can avoid having those same tools purloined and turned against their own citizens.They also showed how easily a cyberweapon can wreak havoc, even without shutting off a country’s power grid or its cell phone network.</div>
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In Britain, hospitals were locked out of their systems, and doctors could not call up patient files. Emergency rooms were forced to divert people seeking urgent care.</div>
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In Russia, the country’s powerful Interior Ministry, after denying reports that its computers had been targeted, confirmed in a statement that “around 1,000 computers were infected,” which it described as less than 1 per cent of its total. The ministry, which oversees Russia’s police forces, said technicians had contained the attack.</div>
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Some intelligence officials were dubious about that announcement because they suspect Russian involvement in the theft of the NSA tools.</div>
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But James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said he suspected that criminals operating from Eastern Europe acting on their own were responsible. “This doesn’t look like state activity, given the targets that were hit,” he said.</div>
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Those targets included corporate computer systems in many other countries — including FedEx in the United States, one of the world’s leading international shippers, as well as Spain’s Telefonica and Russia’s MegaFon telecom giant.</div>
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It could take months to find who was behind the attacks — a mystery that may go unsolved. But they alarmed cybersecurity experts everywhere, reflecting the enormous vulnerabilities to internet invasions faced by disjointed networks of computer systems.</div>
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There is no automatic way to “patch” their weaknesses around the world.</div>
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“When people ask what keeps you up at night, it’s this,” said Chris Camacho, the chief strategy officer at Flashpoint, a New York security firm tracking the attacks. Camacho said he was particularly disturbed at how the attacks spread like wildfire through corporate, hospital and government networks.</div>
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Another security expert, Rohyt Belani, the chief executive of PhishMe, an email security company, said the wormlike capability of the malware was a significant shift from previous ransom attacks. “This is almost like the atom bomb of ransomware,” Belani said, warning that the attack “may be a sign of things to come.”</div>
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The hackers’ weapon of choice Friday was Wanna Decryptor, a new variant of the WannaCry ransomware, which encrypts victims’ data, locks them out of their systems and demands ransoms.</div>
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Hours after the Shadow Brokers released the tool last month, Microsoft assured users that it had already included a patch for the underlying vulnerability in a software update in March.</div>
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But Microsoft, which regularly credits researchers who discover holes in its products, curiously would not say who had tipped the company off to the issue. Many suspected that the US government itself had told Microsoft, after the NSA realised that its hacking method exploiting the vulnerability had been stolen.</div>
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Privacy activists said if that were the case, the government would be to blame for the fact that so many companies were left vulnerable to Friday’s attacks. It takes time for companies to roll out systemwide patches, and by notifying Microsoft of the hole only after the NSA’s hacking tool was stolen, activists say the government would have left many hospitals, businesses and governments susceptible.</div>
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“It would be deeply troubling if the NSA knew about this vulnerability but failed to disclose it to Microsoft until after it was stolen,” Patrick Toomey, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, said Friday. “These attacks underscore the fact that vulnerabilities will be exploited not just by our security agencies, but by hackers and criminals around the world.”</div>
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On Friday, hackers took advantage of the fact that vulnerable targets — particularly hospitals — had yet to patch their systems, either because they had ignored advisories from Microsoft or because they were using outdated software that Microsoft no longer supports or updates.</div>
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The malware was circulated by email. Targets were sent an encrypted, compressed file that, once loaded, allowed the ransomware to infiltrate its targets. The fact that the files were encrypted ensured that the ransomware would not be detected by security systems until employees opened them, inadvertently allowing the ransomware to replicate across their employers’ networks.</div>
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Employees at Britain’s National Health Service had been warned about the ransomware threat earlier Friday. But it was too late. As the disruptions rippled through at least 36 hospitals, doctors’ offices and ambulance companies across Britain, the health service declared the attack a “major incident,” warning that local health services could be overwhelmed.</div>
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Britain’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was briefed by cybersecurity experts, while Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said on television that “we’re not aware of any evidence that patient data has been compromised.”</div>
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As the day wore on, dozens of companies across Europe, Asia and the United States discovered that they had been hit with the ransomware when they saw criminals’ messages on their computer screens demanding $300 to unlock their data. But the criminals designed their ransomware to increase the ransom amount on a set schedule and threatened to erase the hostage data after a predetermined cut-off time, raising the urgency of the attack and increasing the likelihood that victims would pay.</div>
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Carrot sticks were found in the rice being served to the students</h2>
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The chief minister's flying squad inspected six schools in the district after a snake was found in the mid-day meal served to children in Faridabad to take stock of the situation.</div>
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A snake was found in the food served to children in government Girls Senior Secondary School in NIT No-2 area in the district on May 11.</div>
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The squad checked mid-day meals in schools at Uncha Gaon, Chandravali, Ahairvad and Tigaon Road in the district.</div>
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"We took in writing about any shortcomings in the quality of food being served in their schools from the principals concerned," said Deputy Superintendent Dinesh Yadav.</div>
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Carrot sticks were found in the rice being served to the students, said Rajendra Singh, Assistant sub inspector in the squad.</div>
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The report about the quality of the food has been sent to the chief minister, he added.</div>
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The creature is 15 meters long and weights 35 tons</h2>
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Scores of marine scientists are rushing to the Hulung Beach in Indonesia after a mysterious creature was found on the shore.</div>
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A giant carcass was first found by a local villager at the beach on May 10 and has since attracted large number of people to the site.</div>
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The creature is 15 meters long and weights 35 tons. It is assumed to be a baleen whale.</div>
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According to the various <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/mysterious-creature-washes-ashore-in-indonesia-turns-water-red-1692829?pfrom=home-topstories" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0384da; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">media reports,</a> the mysterious creature is turning the water red around it.</div>
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It is not the first time that such a creature has been found. A huge, hairy rotting creature surfaced at  a beach in Philippines earlier this year.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Mumbai)</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A biker in Maharashtra, India was charred to death on a highway after an accident with another biker who later died in the hospital.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ironically, even as people passed by the burning man, no one stopped to douse the fire or rescue the victim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time police reached the spot, the man was burnt to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A video of the incident taken by one of the bystanders shows the man in flames failing to stop the moving traffic. Some people who gathered at the spot didn't provide any help and preferred to record the incident in their camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">NDTV,</em> the video was taken on the highway in Maharashtra's Beed district, at a point some eight hours from Mumbai. When the two bikers collided, one of them was trapped under the wrecked bikes, which caught fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are yet to establish who the victim is," senior police officer G Sreedhar told NDTV.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Since the number plates on the bike were burnt, we are unable to get much details about the victim. All we could tell from the plates was that the bike was registered in Parbhani (a town nearby). We have given the plate to the Regional Transport Office, which can give us details, Sreedhar said.</span></div>
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Manama: The Filipina arrested last week in Kuwait for planning terror attacks had been exhorted by her Somali husband to commit a “successful suicide attack in order to enter Paradise.”</div>
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Justice sources told Kuwaiti daily Al Rai that Livani Azvilo Pescaeda, 32, who had entered Kuwait in June as a domestic helper was communicating with her husband, a member of the Deash terror group in Libya, through a special application and that she was waiting for the necessary explosive equipment to carry out her suicide attack in the northern Arabian Gulf state.</div>
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The source said that Pescaeda worked in Saudi Arabia for two years where she converted from Christianity to Islam upon marrying her Somali husband.</div>
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She subsequently left Saudi Arabia, announced her allegiance to Daesh and attempted to join her husband and the terror group in Libya.</div>
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However, she was unable to reach Libya and Daesh decided to take her to Kuwait where she would carry a suicide attack, Al Rai reported on Sunday.</div>
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The Filipina obtained a visa and entered Kuwait, posing as a domestic helper for a family to avoid raising any suspicions before carrying out her act of terrorism.</div>
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However, the security authorities became aware of her plans by monitoring her electronic communication with the man who recruited her for Daesh and who proved to be her husband based on her confessions, the daily added.</div>
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During her questioning, she admitted that her husband promised her she would go to Heaven if she carried out her suicide attack successfully.</div>
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Daesh in 2015 recruited a Saudi man who flew to Kuwait and committed a suicide attack that killed 27 worshippers and wounded 227 during a group prayer inside Sadiq Mosque.</div>
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he Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has allocated half a billion pesos for over 11,000 stranded overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia, the labor chief said on Wednesday.</div>
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"OWWA board appropriated a big amount—big in the sense that it’s half a billion, but small in the sense that only means giving financial assistance to all the affected migrant workers P26,000 each," Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on ANC's Headstart.</div>
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Bello said upon the request of the OFWs, P20,000 of the P26,000 will be retained with the OFW and the P6,000 given to the family in the Philippines.</div>
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Thousands of OFWs remain in Saudi Arabia after being laid off because they have yet to receive their wages from their employers. Most those who have not received their compensation for the previous six to twelve months are skilled construction workers, said Bello.</div>
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Many companies cited falling oil prices as the reason for downsizing, while some also wanted to hire more people who speak their native language. The company involved in the recent collapse at Grand Mosque in Mecca also had to layoff some of its Filipino employees.</div>
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Two Filipino labor attaches in Jeddah have been recalled back to Manila, according to Bello, to explain the problems.</div>
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"Talagang napaka-problematic yung kanila," he added.</div>
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Of the 11,000 workers, however, only 1,000 have expressed intent to go back to the Philippines, said Bello, and authorities are trying to facilitate their return.</div>
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"Most of them insist on staying. I can understand, dahil hinintay nila yung sweldo nila. They cannot come home without money. Wala nang trabaho, wala pang pera—that they cannot accept," he said.</div>
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Some of the roughly 10,000 OFWs are temporarily sheltered in a building rented by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Saudi Arabia, while others are in makeshift tents, said Bello.</div>
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The department, he added, will not force these workers to come home to the Philippines.</div>
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"Why should we force them? It’s their right to collect their wages. Malaking halaga yun," he said.</div>
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Bello also mentioned that it is President Rodrigo Duterte's long-term plan to encourage Filipinos to stay in the Philippines to work.</div>
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"He wants a program that will create jobs for our countrymen so hindi na kailangang pumunta doon," he said, adding that the reality is that there are very limited jobs for all Filipinos in the country.</div>
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But in the meantime, he called for a stricter criteria for recruiting agencies in choosing employers and employees to prevent abusive work relations abroad.</div>
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"We tell them, ‘you choose the employers, kayong mga local agencies.’ I was talking to them, they were all Arabs, ‘you make sure that the employers that you get, they treat their helpers properly'," he said.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BEIJING — China's foreign minister has asked US Secretary of State John Kerry to support the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea, following a ruling against Beijing over the dispute earlier this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meeting in the Laos capital Vientiane on Monday during a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Kerry that China and ASEAN had agreed the dispute should get back onto the "correct" track of being resolved by direct talks with the parties concerned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">China "hopes the United States side talks actual steps to support the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines, and support the efforts of China and ASEAN to maintain regional peace and stability", Wang said, according to a foreign ministry statement released on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">China's foreign ministry said Wang again urged Tokyo not to intervene in the South China Sea, saying Japan was not a claimant in the disputes and should avoid interfering in up the maritime spats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The China-Japan relations are still vulnerable and unsatisfactory," Wang told Fumio Kishida, Japan's minister for foreign affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Japan and allies Australia and the United States issued a joint statement voicing their "strong opposition to any coercive unilateral actions" in the South China Sea and calling on both the Philippines and China to abide by the legally binding ruling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">China scored a diplomatic victory on Monday as Southeast Asian nations dropped any reference to the court ruling in a joint statement in the face of resolute objections from Cambodia, China's closest ASEAN ally. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Reuters</strong></span></div>
source:<a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/575083/news/nation/china-asks-us-to-support-resumption-of-talks-with-philippines">GMA news</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China flaunted a picture of its nuclear-capable bomber plane flying over the disputed Scarborough Shoal, three days after the release of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's favorable ruling on the case filed by the Philippines against the Asian giant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A photo of the H-6K long range nuclear-capable bomber was posted on the Twitter account of China's State Council Information Office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A report on News to Go said that the photo was posted by the official account of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force in the Chinese social media site Weibo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The H-6K can fire nuclear-armed cruise missile in locations across the Pacific including Singapore, Guam, and Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April, the United States government deployed A10 Thunderbird war planes over the disputed Scarborough Shoal, called Huangyan Island by the Chinese and Panatag Shoal and Bajo de Masinloc of the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Masinloc town Mayor Arsenia Lim said that China may be flaunting the nuclear-capable bomber to show its strong military capability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In its ruling released July 12, the PCA said China "violated the Philippines' sovereign rights in its exclusive economic zone."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"(T)here was no evidence that China had historically exercised exclusive control over the waters or their resources.  The Tribunal concluded that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea areas falling within the 'nine-dash line,'" the Tribunal declared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China has ignored the ruling. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Kiersnerr Gerwin Tacadena/ALG, GMA News</strong></span></div>
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Dubai: The Middle East’s largest airlines cancelled flights to Istanbul’s two airports, Ataturk and Sabiha Gokcen, on Saturday after an apparent failed military coup in Turkey overnight.</div>
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Emirates cancelled flight EK123 to Ataturk Airport, one of Europe’s busiest airports,  and the return flight, EK124, “as a result of the unsettled situation in the country.</div>
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It later cancelled flight EK119 to Sabiha Gokcen Airport and the return flight, EK120. However, Emirates told staff in an internal email seen by <em>Gulf News</em> it would operate the afternoon EK121 flight to Ataturk and the return flight, EK122, on Saturday, though with a one hour delay.</div>
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“The situation in Turkey is becoming more settled,” the internal email said.</div>
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Overnight, military factions are alleged to have attempted to overthrow the Turkish government, which saw tanks and other military vehicles enter the streets of Turkey and military jets fly over the country. The coup was said to have failed by Saturday morning, though there were reports of sporadic gun fire.</div>
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Emirates, however, also told staff not to board passengers flying from international airports to Turkey via Dubai on Saturday “due to the current developing situation,” according to internal emails seen by<em>Gulf News</em>. </div>
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Etihad Airways cancelled all of its services to Ataturk and Sabiha Gokcen on Saturday “as a result of an attempted military coup in Turkey overnight.”</div>
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“All passengers are advised to return home or are being assisted and re-accommodated on other Etihad Airways services and other airlines,” Etihad told<em> Gulf News</em> in an email.</div>
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Flights to Turkey operated by Qatar Airways were also cancelled on Saturday, including one flight to Ataturk and three to Sabiha Gokcen, according to the airlines website.</div>
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UAE discount carriers flydubai and Air Arabia both told <em>Gulf News</em>they intended on operating their respective daily flight to Sabiha Gokcen on Saturday.</div>
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Dubai: In one of his first video messages since members of the Turkish army staged a coup, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that “Turkey is not a country than can be run from Pennsylvania”, giving the first hints of who he thought may be behind the attempted coup.</div>
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday that any country that stands by Gulen will not be a friend of Turkey and will be considered at war with it.</div>
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Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that the US had not received a request to extradite the cleric, and invited Turkey to present evidence against him.</div>
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The government accuses Gulen of trying to build a “parallel structure” within the judiciary, education system, media and military as a way to overthrow the state, a charge the cleric denies.</div>
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Gulen has a wide following in his native country, where he enjoys support among the police and judiciary.</div>
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“As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt. I categorically deny such accusations,” Gulen said in a statement late on Friday.</div>
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Gulen, 75, was once a close ally of Erdogan but the two fell out in recent years as Erdogan became suspicious of Gulen’s movement, Hizmet, and its powerful presence in Turkish society, including the media, police and judiciary.</div>
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The preacher moved to the United States in 1999, before he was charged with treason in his native country. He has since led a secluded life in Pennsylvania, declining interviews and rarely making public appearances.</div>
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If he worries about the possibility of deportation, he hasn’t shared it with confidants, they say.</div>
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“He said that the United States has a long tradition of democracy and rule of law,” a confidante, Y. Alp Aslandogan, told the AP in an interview in February. “They will see that these are politically oriented charges, and they will not allow Erdogan to spread his ambition into the United States.”</div>
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Gulen’s followers run a loosely affiliated global network of charitable foundations, professional associations, businesses and other projects, including about 150 taxpayer-funded charter schools throughout the US. But details about Gulen’s personal life and his ties to those ventures have long been murky, giving rise to suspicions about his motives.</div>
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Nobody associated with the US schools has been charged, and there has been no public outcry from parents or students about teachers promoting Islam, Gulen’s supporters say. In America, the schools are public and open to students of all faiths.</div>
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The US has lauded Gulen for his schools around the world, which it sees as a potential alternative to madrasas that teach radical interpretations of Islam. But in a state built on secular principles, many Turks see Gulen’s influence in a more ominous light.</div>
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The power struggle between the two foes came to a head in late 2013 after judicial officials thought to be close to Gulen brought corruption charges that directly implicated some of Erdogan’s inner circle, including his son Bilal.</div>
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Erdogan launched a series of counter-attacks, purging hundreds of army officers, including top generals, shutting down schools operated by Hizmet and firing hundreds of police officers.</div>
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Erdogan has also gone after newspapers believed to be sympathetic to his rival, firing their editors or shutting them down.</div>
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Turkish authorities have accused the preacher of seeking to establish “a state within a state” in Turkey, but Hizmet officials insist that Gulen is committed to democratic reform and interfaith dialogue.</div>
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“For more than 40 years, Fethullah Gulen and Hizmet participants have advocated for, and demonstrated their commitment to, peace and democracy,” the Alliance for Shared Values said in a statement on Friday.</div>
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The group said it did not wish to speculate on the unfolding crisis in Turkey and denounced as “highly irresponsible” comments by Erdogan’s supporters concerning Gulen’s involvement in the coup attempt.</div>
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Hizmet — meaning service in Turkish — advocates a mix of Sufi mysticism and harmony among people based on the teachings of Islam.</div>
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However it is not a religious effort: their work centres on community service, education, human rights, democracy, and “intercultural and interfaith dialogue for peaceful coexistence,” according to the Alliance for Shared Values website.</div>
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<em>— With inputs from agencies</em></div>
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US President Barack Obama called on Turkey to respect the rule of law Saturday, a warning to the country's government as it rounded up alleged coup plotters.</div>
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He stressed the "vital need" for all parties to "act within the rule of law," after consulting key national security aides about the fallout from a botched putsch.</div>
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Obama also urged Turkish leaders to "avoid actions that would lead to further violence or instability," the White House said.</div>
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Although the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repelled the coup, the situation remains fraught and tensions between Washington and Ankara are growing.</div>
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Several army commanders, a top judge and more than a thousand military personnel have swiftly been detained after the failed power grab that killed more than 200.<br />
There was no indication that Americans have been killed, Obama said.</div>
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Obama instructed aides to work with Turkish authorities to "maintain the safety and well-being of diplomatic missions and personnel, US servicemembers, and their dependents."</div>
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A top army general has been detained over alleged involvement in a coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, an official said.</div>
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"General Erdal Ozturk, commander of the Third Army, has been detained," said the Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity.</div>
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Turkey on Saturday detained a member of the country's top court after a bloody coup attempt aiming to oust the government, local media reported.</div>
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Alparslan Altan, one of 17 judges on the constitutional court, was taken into custody, the private NTV television reported, without specifying what he was accused of.<br />
Earlier, the judicial authorities said that some 2,745 judges across the country would be dismissed in the wake of the coup.</div>
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This also came in addition to the arrests of several senior military figures including 2nd army generals Adem Huduti and Avni Angun, Turkish media said. </div>
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US suspends strikes against Daesh from Turkey's Incirlik air base, said an official after Turkish authorities denied movements onto and off Incirlik air base near Adana following an attempted military coup overnight.</div>
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Meanwhile the US military command in Europe has ordered American forces across Turkey to take maximum protective measures following the attempted military coup there, a US military source said.</div>
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About 1,500 of them are stationed at Incirlik, the military base in southern Turkey from which American warplanes have launched bombing missions against the Islamic State group.</div>
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US forces in Turkey were now at the "Delta" force protection level, such as is invoked when a terrorist attack is taking place or appears imminent, the American defense official said.</div>
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"We are firmly committed to making every possible effort to ensure the safety and security of our service members, civilians, their families and our facilities," the official said.</div>
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At the Delta level, all non-essential activities are suspended and all resources placed in defensive positions in case of attack. </div>
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Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by US and other coalition forces in the fight against jihadists in Syria, the US consulate said.</div>
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"Local authorities are denying movements on to and off of Incirlik Air Base. The power there has also been cut," the US consulate in Adana said in a message after an coup attempt aimed at toppling the government was thwarted by the authorities.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkish Airlines: Flights return to normal schedule, delays expected</span></div>
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Turkish Airlines resumed flights from Istanbul's international airport on Saturday following a failed coup attempt while some foreign carriers cancelled weekend flights.</div>
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A spokesman for Turkish Airlines said flights had now returned to their normal schedule from Europe's third largest hub, though delays were to be expected.<br />
Turkish budget carrier Pegasus said its flights were also experiencing minor delays.</div>
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The closure of Istanbul's Ataturk Airport late on Friday had caused the diversion of 35 airplanes and cancelled 32 flights, Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci told broadcaster CNN Turk.</div>
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British Airways said in a statement it was halting all flights to Turkey on Saturday and one on Sunday as a precaution.</div>
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"The safety and security of our customers and crew are always our top priority and we would never operate a flight unless it was safe to do so." Over 2,500,000 British nationals visit Turkey every year according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</div>
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EasyJet said its advice from British authorities was to continue flying, although it was monitoring developments.</div>
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German airline Lufthansa cancelled all its flights to Istanbul and Ankara on Saturday and pared back the number flights to holiday destinations Bodrum and Antalya.</div>
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TUI which owns the Thomson and First Choice holiday companies, said its flights to Dalaman, Antalya and Izmir were operating as normal.</div>
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Tour operator Thomas Cook said most German guests who had booked a holiday to Antalya or Bodrum had taken their flights on Saturday. It said flights from the UK were operating as normal but, given the circumstances, free cancellations or amendments were possible for customers due to fly to Turkey this weekend.</div>
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Russia also suspended passenger flights to the country on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, TASS news agency said.</div>
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Turkish and Russian officials had met this week to discuss the restarting of charter flights between the two countries and tourism security after relations soured following Turkey's downing of a Russian jet last year.</div>
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State airline EgyptAir also cancelled all flights on Saturday to Istanbul, the company said in a statement. The company, which has 14 flights to Istanbul per week, did not say when they were expected to resume.</div>
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All flights from Istanbul to Sofia for Saturday had been cancelled, according to Sofia airport's website.  </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkish operation at general staff HQ against coup plotters completed  </span></div>
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Turkish security forces have completed an operation against coup plotters at the headquarters of the military general staff, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Saturday.</div>
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Overnight a faction within the military attempted to overthrow the government using tanks and helicopters and by blocking bridges in Istanbul. They were defeated after President Tayyip Erdogan called on supporters to take to the streets in support of democracy.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Erdogan vows 'heavy price' for coup plotters</span></div>
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Forces loyal to Turkey's president quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left dozens dead on Saturday. Authorities arrested thousands of people as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed those responsible "will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">8 coup plotters request asylum in Greece</span></div>
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A Turkish military helicopter landed in Greece on Saturday carrying eight officers seeking asylum after a coup bid, Greek police said.</div>
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The Black Hawk chopper arrived after sending a distress signal to authorities at the airport in Alexandroupolis in the country's north.</div>
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Seven of those on board were in military uniform and all are believed to have been involved in the attempted putsch, ERT TV said.</div>
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Athens News Agency said the asylum seekers comprised three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors. Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara had asked Athens to send back the eight.</div>
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"We have requested Greece to extradite the eight traitors as soon possible," Cavusoglu was quoted as telling HaberTurk television.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey shuts Bosphorus to tankers</span></div>
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Maritime authorities shut Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers on Saturday "for security and safety" reasons, shipping agent GAC said, after what the government said was an attempted coup by a faction in the military.</div>
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The Bosphorus is one of world's most important chokepoints for the maritime transit of oil with over three percent of global supply - mainly from Russia and the Caspian Sea - passing through the 17-mile waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. It also ships vast amounts of grains from Russia and Kazakhstan to world markets.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Coup supporters request surrender talks</span></div>
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Turkey's Anadolu Agency is reporting that soldiers who have taken over the Chief of General Staff Headquarters as part of an attempted coup have requested negotiations to surrender.</div>
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According to a Turkish official at the presidency, that is the last base the coup supporters hold.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">More than 1,500 soldiers arrested</span></div>
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Turkey's acting chief of the general staff says 1,563 soldiers have been arrested in the attempted military coup overnight.</div>
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The newly appointed General Umit Dundar says those who took part in the betrayal will not go unpunished.</div>
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He says those who "sided with democracy and the rule of law" thwarted the attempt.</div>
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Dundar said Turkey's military is determined to purge members of the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who is living in exile in Pennsylvania, from the ranks.</div>
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"Our people should have no concern, that the era of coups and juntas have come to a close, never to be opened again," Dundar says.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Death toll rises to more than 190</span></div>
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General Umit Dundar, the newly appointed acting chief of the general staff, said more than 190 people died in clashes: 41 police officers, two soldiers, 47 civilians and 104 people described as "coup plotters."</div>
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Dundar said officers from the Air Force, the military police and the armored units were mainly involved in the attempt.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">More than 1,400 wounded, thousands detained</span></div>
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Turkish Prime Minister Benali Yildirim said more more than 1,400 people were wounded in the chaos. More than 2,800 people have been detained. He described the night as a "dark stain for Turkish democracy" and pinned blame for the coup on the "parallel terrorist organisation."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey chief of staff Akar rescued</span></div>
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Turkish security forces on Saturday rescued the country's top army general in an operation in Ankara after a coup attempt, taking him to a safe location, the private CNN-Turk television reported.</div>
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General Hulusi Akar was rescued after an operation was launched in Akinci air base, northwest of the capital, it said. Earlier reports said he had been taken hostage in the earlier stages of the coup bid late Friday.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey's president declares coup attempt over</span></div>
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the nation Saturday that his government is in charge after a coup attempt brought a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire across the capital that left at least 60 dead and at least 150 people wounded.</div>
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Government officials said the coup appeared to have failed as Turks took to the streets overnight to confront troops attempting to take over the country. However, the sounds of huge blasts, including at least one bomb that hit the parliament complex, continued to echo across the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul throughout the morning.</div>
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Addressing a crowd of supporters outside Istanbul Ataturk Airport on Saturday morning, Erdogan told a crowd assembled there: "They have pointed the people's guns against the people."</div>
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An official in the president's office says at least 60 people have been killed in the attempted coup. The official also says 336 people, most of them soldiers, have been arrested across Turkey. Most of the dead are civilians.</div>
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Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, quoted by state-run Anadolu Agency, says security forces have "achieved results in many places" and defeated coup plotters. That includes the National Intelligence Agency, police and government buildings. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">New acting army chief appointed</span></div>
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Turkey on Saturday appointed a new acting army chief of staff after an attempted coup to topple the government, the prime minister said.</div>
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General Umit Dundar, commander of the First Army, has been appointed as acting chairman of chief of staff, Binali Yildirim said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier said he did not know whereabouts of former army chief Hulusi Akar.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Bomb attacks continue </span></div>
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Bomb attacks on Turkey's parliament are continuing, a senior Turkish official said on Saturday, adding that rebel soldiers have been warned they will be shot down if they attempt to use more military aircraft.</div>
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The official also said there were more fatalities in Istanbul, in addition to the 42 killed in Ankara, in an attempted coup by a section of the military.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Erdogan seeks control</span></div>
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A Turkish army faction backed by tanks and fighter jets staged an attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday but the strongman returned to Istanbul defiantly claiming to have regained control.</div>
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Soldiers and tanks took to the streets late on Friday and multiple explosions rang out throughout the night in Ankara and Istanbul, the two biggest cities of the strategic Nato country of 80 million people.</div>
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After hours of chaos unseen in decades, the president ended uncertainty over his whereabouts, flying into Istanbul airport in the early hours of the morning where he made a defiant speech and was greeted by hundreds of supporters.</div>
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Erdogan denounced the coup attempt as "treachery" but said he was carrying out his functions and would keep on working "to the end".</div>
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"What is being perpetrated is a treason and a rebellion. They will pay a heavy price for this act of treason," Erdogan said at Istanbul's airport. "We will not leave our country to occupiers."</div>
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With Turkish officials insisting the coup was faltering and Erdogan ordering the army to shoot down planes being used by the plotters, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 120 of those involved had been arrested.</div>
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The sound of F16 fighter jets flying over the capital Ankara signalled the start of the putsch late on Friday, with troops also moving to block the bridges across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.</div>
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As protesters took to the streets, witnesses saw troops open fire on people gathered near one of the bridges, leading to numerous casualties.</div>
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State-run news agency Anadolu reported that the parliament in Ankara had been bombed and regular explosions could be heard.</div>
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AFP correspondents reported a strong explosion in Ankara just before 1:00 am (2200 GMT), though it was not immediately clear what caused the blast.</div>
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Turkey's top general Hulusi Akar was taken hostage at the military headquarters in the capital Ankara after the attempt to bring down the government, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.</div>
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State broadcaster TRT said the military had declared martial law and a curfew, in a statement signed by a group calling itself the "Council for Peace in the Homeland".</div>
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"The power in the country has been seized in its entirety," said a military statement quoted by Turkish media.</div>
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It said the coup had been launched "to ensure and restore constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms and let the supremacy of the law in the country prevail, to restore order which was disrupted".</div>
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"All our international agreements and commitments retain their validity," the statement added.</div>
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"We hope our good relations will continue with all countries in the world."</div>
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Erdogan, speaking from what a presidential source said was a secure location, urged people to take to the streets to resist the coup.</div>
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"I certainly believe that coup plotters will not succeed," he said, speaking on a mobile phone via FaceTime in his first reaction to the move by the Turkish armed forces.</div>
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"I urge the Turkish people to convene at public squares and airports. I never believed in a power higher than the power of the people."</div>
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Erdogan said he was still president and Turkey's commander in chief, promising that plotters would pay a "very heavy price".</div>
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It was earlier reported that the president was on vacation in the Mediterranean resort of Marmaris.</div>
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Television pictures showed tanks deployed outside Ataturk airport in Istanbul. Reports said that flights into the airport had been halted.</div>
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US President Barack Obama has been briefed, with US National Security Council spokesman Ned Price saying: "The president's national security team has apprised him of the unfolding situation in Turkey."</div>
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The EU called for "restraint and respect for democratic institutions" in Turkey.</div>
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Neighbouring Greece said it was following the situation closely.</div>
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Tanks opened fire around the parliament building in the Turkish capital Ankara, a Reuters witness said, after the military said on Friday it had seized control of the government in a coup.</div>
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Gunfire was also heard at Ataturk airport in Istanbul, according to another Reuters witness.The Turkish military late Friday deployed tanks outside the parliament in the capital Ankara, the private Dogan news agency reported.</div>
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Strong blasts were heard in Ankara and jets were continuously flying over the city. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said coup plotters would "not succeed."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey's EU minister urges soldiers to disobey coup leaders - NTV </span></div>
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Turkey's EU minister Omer Celik urged soldiers not to obey the orders of a faction in the military attempting to carry out a coup, according to broadcaster NTV.</div>
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"We will not hand over this democracy without giving our last breath," he said.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Qatar Airways' Friday </span>flight QR237 to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport cancelled - Qatar Airways website</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Etihad delayed </span>flight EY4151 Abu Dhabi to Istanbul scheduled to depart 1:25am. Flight has not departed</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkish justice minister</span> says members of movement loyal to US-based cleric Gulen in the army attempted coup.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Strong explosion heard in Turkish capital Ankara</span></div>
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A strong explosion was heard in the Turkish capital on Friday after the army said it had seized power and declared martial law and a curfew, AFP journalists reported.</div>
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It was not immediately known what caused the explosion but jets that had been present in the skies throughout the late evening were still flying over Ankara.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey army says it seizes power; Erdogan says 'We will overcome this'</span></div>
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Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power, but President Tayyip Erdogan said the attempted coup would be put down.</div>
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If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years.</div>
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"We will overcome this," Erdogan said, speaking by mobile phone to the Turkish sister station of CNN. He called on his followers to take to the streets to defend his government and said the coup plotters would pay a heavy price.</div>
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the elected government remained in office. However, it appeared that those behind the coup had the upper hand initially.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">UK foreign ministry says</span> until situation in Turkey clearer, advising UK citizens to avoid public places, remain vigilant</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey army in coup attempt</span></div>
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Turkish troops launched a coup Friday, with soldiers taking to the streets of Ankara and Istanbul as the prime minister vowed the putschists would "pay the highest price".</div>
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Jets screeched low overhead in the capital, while citizens rushed for the safety of their homes.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Obama briefed on situation in Turkey: White House</span></div>
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US President Barack Obama has been briefed by aides on events in Turkey, the White House said Friday, as a shock military coup attempt was underway.</div>
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"The president's national security team has apprised him of the unfolding situation in Turkey," said National Security Council spokesman Ned Price.</div>
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"The president will continue to receive regular updates."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">'Erdogan safe'</span></div>
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Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power, but the prime minister said the attempted coup would be put down.</div>
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If successful, the overthrow of President Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would amount to one of the biggest shifts in power in the Middle East in years.</div>
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the elected government remained in office. There was no immediate word from Erdogan.</div>
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The Turkish sister channel of CNN said he was "safe".</div>
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The armed forces had taken power in the country to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights, the military said in a statement sent by email and reported on Turkish TV channels. All of Turkey's existing foreign relations would be maintained and the rule of law would remain the priority, it said.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkish military declares martial law and curfew: TRT state TV</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">urkish military says has taken power to protect democratic order </span></div>
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Turkey's armed forces said they had taken power in the country to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights.</div>
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In a statement sent by email and reported on Turkish TV channels, the military said all of Turkey's existing foreign relations would be maintained and that the rule of law would remain the priority.</div>
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Turkey's prime minister said earlier a faction within the army had attempted to seize power but that they would be pushed back and that it was wrong to call it a coup.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Turkey's top general has been taken hostage</span></div>
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Turkey's top general has been taken hostage at the military headquarters in the capital Ankara after an attempt to bring down the government, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported</div>
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All flights from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport have been cancelled, a Reuters witness said on Friday, citing a pilot, after the military said it had taken control of the government.</div>
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Turkey's armed forces said on Friday they had taken power in the country to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights.</div>
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A group within Turkey's military has attempted to overthrow the government and security forces have been called in to "do what is necessary", Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday.</div>
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"Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command," Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV.</div>
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"The government elected by the people remains in charge. This government will only go when the people say so."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Gunfire heard in Turkish capital Ankara</span></div>
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Gunshots were heard in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Friday, a Reuters witness said, as military jets and helicopters were seen flying overhead.</div>
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Reuters witnesses in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, also spotted helicopters overhead.</div>
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Broadcaster NTV reported that both of Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, had been closed to traffic.</div>
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It was not immediately clear if the events were related.</div>
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