Turkey hosted this year's NATO summit and fields the alliance's second-largest army, arms Ukraine while trading with Russia, and remains an EU candidate whose a

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Political turmoil in Korea deepened as the National Assembly passed an impeachment motion against acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Friday afternoon, suspending the country’s second ...

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