Ankara - The presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey were set to hold talks in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday, with the topic of security set to top the agenda.
Presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan are expected to commit to sharing intelligence and cooperating more closely in dealing with the Taliban extremists who freely cross the porous border between the two neighbours.
Cairo - Security officials at Cairo's airport on Tuesday detained a Turkish man they said was trying smuggle antiquities out of Egypt, airport authorities said.
A source in the Cairo airport, speaking on to the German News Agency dpa on condition of anonymity, said the man was trying to carry out 27 Coptic Christian artifacts, including three antique bibles, textiles, and old sheets of papyrus bearing paintings of geometric shapes, animals and birds.
Ankara - Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept local elections on Sunday but saw its primary vote fall, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan disappointed at the party losing a number of provinces and failing to win others it had targeted.
With around 99 per cent of the vote counted as of Monday morning, the AKP had registered 39 per cent of the vote, compared to 23.2 per cent for the main opposition Republican People's Party and 16.1 per cent for the Nationalist Movement Party.
Ankara - Six people were killed and around 100 injured as a number of clashes broke out during Turkey during Sunday's local elections, the CNN-Turk news channel reported.
Fighting was reported at a number of polling booths in eastern and south-eastern Turkey with two deaths reported in Diyarbakir and one each in Sanliurfa, Kayseri, Van and Kars.
Ankara - Four people were killed and more than 50 injured as a number of fights broke out in Turkey during Sunday's local elections, the Dogan news agency reported.
Fighting was reported at a number of polling stations in eastern and south-eastern Turkey with two deaths reported in Diyarbakir province and one each in the provinces of Sanliurfa and Kars.
Ankara - Two German tourists were being kept alive by life support machines in a Turkish hospital on Sunday, days after one of their friends died of suspected alcohol poisoning, according to doctors.
"There has been no change in their situation," a doctor from the Andolu Private Hospital in Antalya told the German Press Agency dpa. Four others were still listed as being in a serious condition.
Ankara - The presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey were set to hold talks in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday, with the topic of security set to top the agenda.
Cairo - Security officials at Cairo's airport on Tuesday detained a Turkish man they said was trying smuggle antiquities out of Egypt, airport authorities said.
Ankara - Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept local elections on Sunday but saw its primary vote fall, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan disappointed at the party losing a number of provinces and failing to win others it had targeted.
Ankara - Six people were killed and around 100 injured as a number of clashes broke out during Turkey during Sunday's local elections, the CNN-Turk news channel reported.
Ankara - Four people were killed and more than 50 injured as a number of fights broke out in Turkey during Sunday's local elections, the Dogan news agency reported.
Ankara - Two German tourists were being kept alive by life support machines in a Turkish hospital on Sunday, days after one of their friends died of suspected alcohol poisoning, according to doctors.
