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UBS to buy Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion to rein in turmoil
GENEVA — Banking giant UBS is buying its smaller rival Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking, Swiss President Alain Berset announced Sunday night. The deal was “one of great breadth…
U.S. military releases footage it says is of encounter between Russian fighter jet and American drone over Black Sea
Turkmenistan’s president expands his father’s power
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan’s president has appointed his father to lead the country’s newly formed supreme representative body, further expanding the older man’s clout in the gas-rich Central Asian nation. Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 41, named his father, former President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov,…
Turkish strike kills 3 Yazidi militiamen in northern Iraq, local officials say
DOHUK, Iraq — A Turkish strike in northern Iraq killed three Yazidi militiamen and wounded three others on Tuesday, regional officials said. A local official affiliated with the militia disputed that account, saying none of its fighters were killed, but…
Turkey: Sweden complicit in hate crime, NATO talks pointless
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday accused Sweden of being complicit in a “hate and racist” crime for failing to prevent weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam and pro-Kurdish groups. Mevlut Cavusoglu also confirmed that a key…
Turkey summons Danish envoy over Quran-burning protest
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Turkey summoned the Danish ambassador and accused Denmark of endorsing a “hate crime” after an anti-Islam activist on Friday burned two copies of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in a solitary protest in Copenhagen. Rasmus Paludan, a…
Tunisian Democracy Is Slipping Away – The American Conservative
TUNIS, TUNISIA—My 26-year-old tour guide is one reason Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is no longer president of Tunisia. When protests broke out in December 2010, Hassan joined in, only to be shot in the shoulder by a government sniper.…
Trudeau names ex-governor general to examine China meddling
TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named a former governor general Wednesday as a special investigator to look into allegations of Chinese interference in Canada’s last two elections. Trudeau announced Wednesday that David Johnston will take the role of special…
Tractor-trolley in Pakistan falls into canal, killing 10
MULTAN, Pakistan — A tractor-pulled trolley transporting villagers to a shrine fell into an irrigation canal in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 10 people, a rescue official said Saturday. Ahmed Kamal, the head of the rescue service in the Dera…