ISTANBUL (Reuters) - More than 10 million Istanbul residents will vote on Sunday in a re-run of a mayoral election that has become a referendum on President Tayyip Erdogan’s policies and a test of Turkey’s ailing democracy. Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), addresses his supporters during an election…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRiot police blocked crowds storming parliament on Thursday night President Vladimir Putin has temporarily banned Russian airlines from flying to Georgia following a spate of violent unrest in the country.He signed the decree - which will be implemented from 8 July - on Friday.It came after some…
Here we go again — Bitcoin's value has risen three-fold since December. Timothy B. Lee - Jun 22, 2019 12:50 am UTC Peter KovalevTASS via Getty ImagesBitcoin's price has soared above $10,000 for the first time since early 2018, a new milestone in the virtual currency's latest comeback. The price has more than tripled since…
EL PASO, TEXAS/TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The United States is more than doubling the number of asylum seekers it returns to Mexico in one city and adding groups like Cubans as it rapidly expands a policy to make migrants wait out claims south of the border, Mexican and U.S. officials said. FILE PHOTO: Migrants from…
Image copyright Mississippi police The US Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a black inmate on death row in Mississippi, citing a prosecutor's exclusion of black jurors.The justices ruled that prosecutors in the trials of Curtis Flowers unconstitutionally removed African-American jurors from selection.Flowers, 49, has been tried six times for the 1996 murders of…
carbon conflict — Appointees assert that higher fuel-economy standards would cause more deaths. Megan Geuss - Jun 20, 2019 11:42 pm UTC Enlarge / Cars and trucks drive along Interstate 75/85 June 25, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia.The Trump administration has been trying to roll back Obama-era fuel-economy standards for passenger vehicles out to model year…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Thursday he was worried that President Donald Trump may “bumble” into a war with Iran and he said there needed to be an open debate and a congressional decision on funding before any military operation was launched. “I told the president that these…
Image copyright AFP The latest blockbuster tech flotation hits Wall Street later when shares in messaging app Slack start trading.But the company has chosen an unusual route, effectively cutting out many of the advisers - and their fees - that take companies to the stock market.Slack has chosen a direct listing, where the shares become…
ACE in the coal hole — Rule regulates emissions at the power-plant level versus at the state level. Megan Geuss - Jun 19, 2019 10:10 pm UTC Enlarge / A truck loaded with coal is viewed at the Eagle Butte Coal Mine, which is operated by Alpha Coal, on Monday May 08, 2017, in Gillette,…
(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc is preparing an alternative plan if a deal to sell wireless assets to Dish Network Corp falls through, according to two sources familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: The storefront of a Boost mobile phone store is seen in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon…
