Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday.
A Saudi Arabian woman scaled Mount Everest.
Floods caused by rainstorms in southern China have killed 55 people.
Thousands of people gathered in the Jordanian capital to support Palestinians' cause.
45 people died in two separate bomb attackas in capital Baghdad.
Ultra Orthodox Haredi Jews have gathered in Jerusalem before the office of military recruitment to protest against the government.
The head of State of Myanmar Thein Sein has decided to grant pardon to the political prisoners in his country ahead of his official visit to the US.
43 people were killed and many others were wounded in the explosions outside a mosque in Baquba.
A protest has been held in Samarra, to the north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, to protest Prime Minister Nuri el Maliki.
May 19, Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
Some Greek cities, Salonika in particular, have recently been seeing some meetings and ceremonies to be used against Turkey on the basis of the so-called Greek Pontus region and allegations of genocide.
Topping Turkey’s domestic politics these days have been the peace plan, or the Solution Process, and the meetings held by a 69-strong delegation, called the Wise Men, in many parts of Turkey.
One of Britain’s former Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher who passed away on April 8, 2013 was one of the symbolic names of the transformations in the 1980s not only in her own country but in the whole world.
İstanbul became once again the centre of international politics last week.
A SPECIAL PROGRAMME ON THE OCCASION OF APRIL 23RDNATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND CHILDREN’S DAY
There has recently been a lot of increasing traffic to the Middle East, Turkey and Palestine in particular, from the United States.