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...Lochner, a 53-year-old carpenter, is not a member of the AfD but stood as the party’s candidate....
...A hastily convened meeting of Kherson regional council blocked the proposal....
...MFG won 6 per cent of the ballot in regional elections in September — drawing a large proportion of its support from former FPÖ voters. A new populist wave?...
...He said he would raise the issue at a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday....
...Russia and Iran, not the opposing side in the country,” says Osama Abuzeid, a member of the Homs Revolutionary Council....
...Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank and author of a forthcoming book on the US war in Laos, says the impact of the conflict there was “enormous”....
...As the president sped to the regional Dalaman airport, three of his staff were killed by the soldiers....
...Bricklayers are earning 20 per cent more than two years ago and are still in short supply, as are carpenters....
...Even in Sistan-Baluchestan [the restive southeastern province], we have not had one single case of a Daesh follower....
...They said that Germany and France agreed that if there were no internationally recognised polls and there was further destabilisation, the EU would act in line with the its council’s decisions on March 6...
...The government said it regained control of a building in the southeastern city of Mariupol overnight and repelled an attack....
...from Crimea . . . from Russia” had also seized the city council building....
...Didier Burkhalter, president of Switzerland and chairman of the OSCE, met Mr Putin and Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, on Wednesday....
...“The Federation Council granted the president the right to use military force in Ukraine,” he said in response to one of 2m questions submitted to him....
...(The annexation has yet to be recognised by the UN Security Council, the US or the EU.)...
...Regional teams carve sculptures from 6ft by 6ft by 10ft snow blocks (to February 8)....
...The successful conclusion of the auction comes only days after Turkey’s high privatization council (OYK) approved the sale of the Ankara gas distribution company Baskent Gaz to Torunlar Gida for $1.162bn...
...AQIM An al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group in January took dozens of expatriate workers hostage at a natural gas facility in southeastern Algeria....
...“There will be less construction and fewer exports this year,” says Ercument Aksoy, chairman of the Turkish-Iraqi Business Council....
...Satisfaction in value-for-money terms fell among passengers in London and the south-east as well as those on long-distance services; only on regional rail were levels flat from the autumn 2010 survey....
...The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest Arab Islamist group, is the inspiration for other movements, and its first effort to share power is likely to have wider regional ramifications....
...At a blaze-gutted restaurant in the rebellious Syrian mountain town of Madaya, carpenter Abu Samir pleads for international help....
...The company, which runs the Southern, Southeastern and London Midland franchises, has announced 850 job cuts, mostly to back and head office staff....
...Some Somali nationalists believe in the idea of a “greater Somalia” which would include the southeastern region of Ethiopia, eastern parts of Kenya and Djibouti....
...Exactly five years after a destructive economic collapse that brought the country to the brink of defaulting on its huge debts, Turkey is finding its entrepreneurial feet again, especially in regional centres...
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