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Ankara / AFP Turkish warplanes pounded Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq on Monday, the day after a suicide car bomb tore through downtown Ankara killing at least 36 people, the third attack on the capital in five months. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest carnage, which reduced cars and buses to charred hulks on a ...

Bloomberg “Republicans in Ohio and Florida head to the polls this week to help decide who will become their party’s nominee, and whether the GOP will endure in any recognizable form in the months and years that follow. To hear those who have devoted their lives to building the party tell it, if front-runner Donald Trump prevails on Tuesday in ...

Bloomberg More than one million people marched through cities across Brazil to protest political corruption, a weak economy, and to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, in a showing that could accelerate efforts to remove her from office. The protest in Sao Paulo was the largest ever recorded by polling firm Datafolha, surpassing even the 1984 rallies to ...

London / WAM The UAE Embassy in London hosted the third edition of the UAE-UK Pioneers Forum on March 11-12 at the Park Plaza Hotel Westminster Bridge. The Embassy initiative brought together the most prominent Emirati government entities, Emirati companies, and British companies that are seeking to employ bright and ambitious young Emiratis. Now in its third year, the UAE–UK ...

Kathmandu / DPA Nepal plans to ask China to provide duty-free access to around 400 new products with export potential during Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s visit to Beijing scheduled to start on March 20, officials of the Foreign and Commerce ministries said. Nepali traders can presently export 8,030 products to China without paying import duty, but they have been ...

Emirates Business Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, and organised by the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), the fifth edition of Crisis and Emergency Management Conference (CEMC) 2016 began on Sunday at St. Regis Resort Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. The two-day conference titled ‘Innovative approaches towards a safe ...

Bloomberg Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed to make it harder for foreign automakers to claim that their cars are made in the U.S., as she tries to recruit Rust Belt voters following a surprise defeat in Michigan. At a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Clinton called for tougher “rules of origin,” the means used to determine whether a product ...

Geneva / AFP Syria’s warring sides prepared on Sunday for a new round of peace talks after locking horns over the fate of President Bashar Al Assad, with the regime insisting his ouster was a “red line” while the opposition vowed to see him go—dead or alive. The UN-brokered indirect negotiations are due to begin in Geneva on Monday, the ...

Bloomberg A day after violent protests prompted Donald Trump to cancel a rally, the Republican presidential front-runner blamed the activist group MoveOn.Org and supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders for the chaos, while defending his own “harassed” supporters. “When they have organized, professionally staged wise-guys—we’ve got to fight back. We’ve got to fight back,” Trump said at an event in Dayton, ...

Seoul / AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party braced for a backlash in key state polls on Sunday over the German leader’s liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD prepared to scoop up the protest vote from angry voters. More than 12 million voters headed to the ballot box to elect three new regional parliaments for the southwestern states of ...