Turkey election: Ruling AKP regains majority
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a critical parliamentary election, regaining the majority it lost in June.
With almost all ballots counted, the state-run Anadolu news agency said the AKP had won 49.4% of the vote, with the main opposition CHP on 25.4%.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters had "shown that they prefer action and development to controversy".
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold needed to claim seats.
The nationalist MHP will also take seats in Ankara.
In a statement, President Erdogan said the electorate had "given proof of their strong desire for the unity and integrity" of Turkey.
Early on Monday, he called on the world to respect Turkey's national will.
Chinese newspaper editor sacked for criticising Beijing's 'war on terror'
Zhao Xinwei was removed from the state-run Xinjiang Daily for ‘improperly’ discussing government policy in China’s violence-stricken western region
A Chinese newspaper editor has been sacked for criticising Beijing’s controversial war on terror following the introduction of draconian new rules that outlaw any criticism of Communist party policy.
Zhao Xinwei, the editor of the state-run Xinjiang Daily newspaper, was removed from his job and expelled from the party after an investigation found him guilty of “improperly” discussing, and publicly opposing, government policy in China’s violence-stricken west.
The former editor’s “words and deeds” had gone against government attempts to rein in religious extremism and terrorism, the official China News Service agency reported on Monday.
In Xinjiang, a sprawling region of west China where Beijing is grappling with what some describe as a low-level insurgency against Communist party rule, the crackdown on dissent has been particularly intense.
Elephant poaching: King’s College London and Metropolitan Police develop fingerprint test for ivory to identify poachers
The new technique uses an advanced form of fingerprinting powder and prepares the ground for the use of fingerprinting in the field
Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed.
Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought almost impossible to retrieve fingerprints from ivory because of its ridges and porous surface, making it difficult for wildlife police to prosecute poachers.
Now a collaboration between academics at King’s College London, University College London and the Metropolitan Police has created a new technique to retrieve fingerprints from the material for the first time,
The new technique, which is documented in the Science & Justice journal, uses an advanced form of fingerprinting powder and prepares the ground for the use of fingerprinting in the field.
'Our life is not a game,' say World Indigenous Games protesters
Were the first-ever World Indigenous Games a hit or a miss for the globe's native communities?
According to three native American media makers, that's Number 1 on "7 Things About Native Americans You'll Never Learn From the Mainstream Media."
Advocates today encourage reporters to always specify someone's particular tribe and traditions, chipping away at over-generalizations.
But even when identified properly, native peoples around the world still have to fight what a Canadian guide to reporting on indigenous communities calls "The WD4 rule": the media's tendency to only cover aboriginal issues when they fit into the stereotypical framework of warrior, drummer, dancer, drunk, or dead. Minorities in Indian polity: A grim tale of discrimination, violence, state impunity
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The UN Declaration on Minorities, 1992 brings out the need for special attention to the ‘national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities’.
The Constitution of India, 1950 does not define ‘minorities’ or mention whom it considers minorities but provides in Part III that the cultural and religious rights of ‘minorities’ must be protected.
The National Commission on Minorities, 2002 mentions only religious minorities namely, the Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, (Zoroastrians), Buddhists and Jains (added in 2014).
Following the emergence of a Hindu nationalist Prime Minister of India in 2014, there have been serious incidents of discrimination and violence against the Muslims and Christians in the Indian polity.Details Revealed in Chilling Plot to Kill Anti-ISIS Activists in Turkey
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SANLIURFA, Turkey — The double murder achieved its goal. It sent the message that, even here in the relative safety of Turkey, ISIS and its supporters can reach its critics.
The bodies of 22-year-old Ibrahim Abdel Qader and 20-year-old Fares Hammadiwere found early Friday in an apartment in the Turkish town of Sanliurfa. Qader had been stabbed dozens of times and both men were, in the gruesome fashion that has become ISIS's trademark, beheaded.
The deaths of the two young Syrians, both members of a citizen-journalist group called "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," sent shockwaves through the exile Syrian community here.
How did two young men, known targets of ISIS who took measures to protect themselves, end up dead?
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