Turkey's EU minister said on Wednesday candidate Turkey might freeze relations with the rotating European Union presidency if Cyprus assumed the post in July 2012 without a solution to the divided island. "It is an option to freeze ties with the EU presidency, with the Greek Cypriot side," Egemen Bagis told TGRT broadcaster. "We don't
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Syrian forces killed four villagers on Wednesday near Turkey, rights campaigners said, in an expansion of a military campaign to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad. The four were killed in tank-backed assaults on at least four villages in the Jabal al-Zawya region in northwestern Idlib province near the border with Turkey, an activist in
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The dollar fell on Thursday, sending gold to a record high and yields on Japanese government bonds to eight-month lows, after Moody's warning that the United States may lose its top-notch credit rating spurred a rush towards safe-haven assets. A standoff in the U.S. Congress over raising the country's debt ceiling while disagreements over a
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Sharply divided by partisan bickering, President Barack Obama and top Republicans face growing doubts on Thursday about the prospects for reaching a deal to avoid a potentially disastrous U.S. debt default. With tensions running high in Washington political circles as the clock ticks toward an August 2 deadline for raising the national debt ceiling, the
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Australia's government may review media laws in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British paper the News of the World, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday, as an influential party demanded a probe into media ownership and regulation. "To see some of the things that have been done to intrude
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A painting sold for as little as 45 pounds ($70) in the 1950s but since hailed as a lost masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci and now worth millions is to go on show in November. The painting, "Salvator Mundi" (Saviour of the World), dating from around 1500, was recorded in 1649 as being part of
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AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday. The findings add to growing evidence that the type of medicines prescribed since the mid-1990s to treat people who are already sick may
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Turkish relations with the European Union "will freeze" if Cyprus takes over the EU presidency in July 2012 without a solution to the divided island, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Ahmet Davutoglu made his comments as the European Union's enlargement chief said in a visit to Ankara that he wanted to see "a new
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EasyJet's largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, wants to force a shareholder vote over the airline's plans to by new aircraft from Airbus, resuming a long-running dispute with the company he founded. In January, easyJet confirmed an order with EADS unit Airbus for 15 A320 aircraft with options on further 33. Haji-Ioannou on Wednesday said the terms
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Marks & Spencer bucked the gloom in Britain's retail sector, meeting forecasts with a seventh consecutive quarterly rise in underlying sales as its older and more affluent customers coped better with a squeeze in disposable incomes. Britain's biggest clothing retailer, which also sells homewares and upmarket foods, said on Wednesday sales at British stores open
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