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World· Developing

Abdullah Ocalan relocated to new island prison wing amid Turkish peace push

Turkey has moved the country’s Kurdish militant leader to a newly built part of an island prison where he has been incarcerated since 1999 as part of efforts to end decades of conflict, a senior Kurdish official said. Improving prison conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been a key Kurdish demand in the push to end the 42-year-long conflict between the militant group and Turkish authorities. Ocalan has been imprisoned in a penitentiary on the island...

World· Verified

Bulgaria election exit polls project victory for acting president Iliana Iotova

Bulgaria’s acting president Iliana Iotova, who favours dialogue with Moscow and opposes military aid to Ukraine, won a presidential run-off vote on Sunday, exit polls showed. The vote took place amid security concerns in the European Union and Nato member following a series of drone attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea. The race for the largely ceremonial post pitted Iotova, an ally of Prime Minister Rumen Radev, against Andrey Gyurov, a banker and former caretaker prime minister...

World· Verified

Ukraine evacuees return from occupied Oleshky after mediated ceasefire

Ukraine’s border with Belarus — Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days. He had been counting. Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were fixed on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky. When the couple, both 54, … The post Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire appeared first on Egypt Independent.

World· Verified

Iran continues diplomatic talks in Qatar to halt conflict with US and Israel

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Iranian negotiators were in Doha on Sunday for a third consecutive day of talks with Qatari mediators aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran, an official briefed on the discussions told Reuters. The talks come amid concerns that the conflict could escalate again after the November 3 US midterm elections. President Donald Trump has said the United States will not launch new attacks on Iran before the vote and that talks with Tehran have been productive, though he has not ruled out further military action thereafter.

World· Verified

Quad foreign ministers pledge supply chain cooperation and target economic coercion

By Andrea Shalal ATLANTA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the US, Australia, India and Japan on Saturday pledged to work on building reliable global supply chains and expressed grave concerns about what they called "economic coercion" through export restrictions and non-market practices, but stopped short of calling out China.

ExplainedWorld· Developing

What caused Spain's deadly Urda train crash and what happens next?

A high-speed train collision near Urda killed at least 69 people on Spain's Madrid-Seville corridor. The disaster has prompted an official safety inquiry and intensified political pressure on the government weeks before a national election.

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