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Donald Trump boasts he and Turkish strongman Erdogan 'have been friends for a long time'

Trump's warm welcome of the Turkish president comes amid anger about Ankara's offensive into Syria to drive out a Kurdish militia, Washington's main partner in the fight against ISIS.




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Erdogan lashes out at Congress for recognizing Armenian genocide

Turkey's leader became a problematic guest - denying Armenian Genocide occurred, demanding the U.S. hand over an Islamic cleric, and complaining America's Kurdish allies are terrorists




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Marcello Lippi resigns from position as China boss following defeat against Syria

China's first defeat in Group A left them five points behind Syria only halfway through the group stage of Asian qualifying. Marcello Lippi had only returned to the role in May this year.




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Lindsay Graham 'admits blocking resolution recognizing Armenian genocide so as not to upset Erdogan'

Lindsey Graham has admitted blocking a Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide because he was afraid about upsetting Erdogan while he was still in Washington.




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Controversy erupts over Conan's sex as White House first says female but then corrects itself 

Controversy erupted at the White House on Monday after officials had to issue a correction regarding the gender of Conan, the hero dog who helped run down terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.




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Jihadis face execution without trial in Syrian jails as Assad says ISIS members will be hanged

Membership of Islamic State (IS) is a hanging offence in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad has now said members of IS in the country will be brought to justice.




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PETER HITCHENS reveals evidence UN watchdog suppressed report casting doubt on Assad gas attack

PETER HITCHENS: This newspaper has now obtained the team's original, uncensored interim report which differs sharply from all later versions, including the March document.




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Assad's top aide says the US has no right' to Syrian oil

Bouthaina Shaaban, Assad's top adviser, has said that US President Donald Trump's plans to expand military operations in the country to acquire oil was like 'talking about stealing it'.




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Qassem Soleimani was Hezbollah ally and helped kill US troops

Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike Thursday, led Iran's feared Quds force for two decades, helping Shia militias kill US troops in Iraq and backing Assad as he slaughtered civilians.




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How the murder of Qasseem Soleimani may be even more significant than Osama bin Laden assassination

Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's formidable Quds Force, could prove to be the spark that sets the whole of the Middle East on fire.




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Kate Middleton's was left 'heartbroken' by documentary about a mother raising her child in Syria

The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, met Syrian filmmaker Waad al Kateab at the BAFTAs on Sunday, and told her how moved she was by her documentary For Sama, The Mirror reports.




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The bushfires have been devastating. But Australia is rising from the ashes with some great deals

Around 72,000 sq miles of land has been affected by bushfires in Australia. So is it safe to go? Tom Chesshyre says the short answer is yes. Here's his guide to visiting in the aftermath of the disaster.




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Syrian girl who was taught to LAUGH at bombs has managed to escape to Turkey

Three-year-old Syrian girl Salwa has safely reached Turkey, it has emerged. Her father came up with a game to make his daughter laugh every time bombs fell near their home in Idlib,




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Camila Cabello celebrates her 23rd in BLACKPOOL as beau Shawn Mendes flies 3,300 miles

Superstar songstress Camila Cabello celebrated her 23rd birthday on Tuesday with a glittering bash in Blackpool in Lancashire.




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Ancient human settlement was obliterated by a COMET exploding in Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria and splattered fragments of molten glass 'hot enough to melt cars' to the ground.




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Singapore, Osaka and Hong Kong are the most expensive cities in 2020, and Damascus is cheapest 

Researchers from The Economist Intelligence Unit looked at the prices of 160 items in 133 cities around the globe including the cost of food, clothing, transport and utility bills.




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London congestion charge fines to increase to £160 in 2018

Motorists will still be offered a discounted early payment fine within the first 14 days of receiving the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), but that will also increase from £65 to £80 under the new rules.




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Video shows fight among Tube passengers on train 

Filmed by a passenger and posted on Facebook, the dramatic footage shows the brawl breaking out while the train waits at the platform at Highbury & Islington station in North London.




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Will Young asks Sadiq Khan for help with homophobic abuse

The 38-year-old Strictly Come Dancing star took to Twitter on Friday to share the details of the incident after which he urged London mayor Sadiq Khan to help bring the driver to justice.




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Bus passengers mock TFL over new announcement

Londoners are getting riled up about the latest TfL announcements which inform travellers that their bus is about to move, but often only once the bus is already travelling away from the stop.




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Tube passenger launches into a rant about 'foreigners'

Police are investigating a hate crime after a commuter on the Tube was filmed hurling racist abuse at another passenger.




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London Tube passenger abused and kicked woman in stomach

The mother, in her thirties, was targeted after getting on an eastbound Central line train from Oxford Circus with her two children, aged between two and five.




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London Tube is as loud as a 'rock concert'

University College London researchers have mapped the 10 loudest journeys on the network in zones one and two, with the Victoria line shown to be the worst offender.




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Two teenage DLR train surfers didn’t know it was illegal

Serial train surfer Harris Ahmed, 18, and a 16 year-old-boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, rode on top of the DLR train between Limehouse and Canning Town stations in east London.




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Passenger stabbed on Tube after fight at London Bridge

The altercation is believed to have broken out after two people got into an argument on a train, before it spilled out onto the platform at London Bridge.




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ASK TONY: TfL wanted £513 to release my car

In September 2016, I sold my car. During the journey to drop it off, I unknowingly drove into the London Congestion Charge zone. I'd never driven in London before and got terribly lost.




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London Tube passenger caught demanding a blind man move

Amit Patel, 37, who suddenly lost his sight five years ago from a haemorrhage behind his eyes, was confronted by an irate commuter on an escalator at London Bridge on Tuesday (pictured).




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Commuter chaos as London's District Line hit by closures

There is currently no service between South Kensington and Ealing Broadway / Richmond/ Wimbledon and between Earl's Court and Edgware Road.




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London Tube is evacuated as 'carriage fills with smoke'

The incident happened on the Tube at Mansion House station at 7.30am. Passengers were ordered off the westbound train and it has sparked major delays on the Circle and District line. File photo.




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Transport for London worker lied he was gay to take council flat

Patrick Ofori-Sampong, 50, said he was gay to take over his alleged partner's property in London then tried to take possession of a man's home while claiming to be his adopted son.




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Tube passengers save men who fall onto tracks at Green Park

The shocking footage shows the two men grappling with each other just inches away from the tracks at London's Green Park station at around 1am on Sunday.




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Man was run over up to 300 times by London Tube trains

The body of the man, who is believed to have been 47, was 'run over up to 300 times' after staff who went to investigate the tunnel between Holborn and Russel Square 'mistook it for a fox'.




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Sir Robert Malpas saved after he is 'pushed' onto London Tube tracks

A leading industrialist cheated death after he was allegedly pushed in front of a train by another man. Sir Robert Malpas, 90, was left lying on the tracks after the apparently unprovoked attack.




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Drunk man's rant at Polish train passenger drinking beer

A witness began recording the vile race rant when a suited passenger, who admitted he had previously been drinking, began ranting a foreign man for drinking a beer on the train to Essex from London.




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Britain's slowest bus revealed as Number 15 from London's Tower Hill

Many commuters could travel faster by donkey than if they take the number 15H bus that runs between Tower Hill and Trafalgar Square via Fleet Street in London.




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Southgate station explosion: At least five people injured in blast

Terrified commuters fled Southgate Tube station in panic after an electronic device overheated and a 23-year-old from Enfield has been arrested and released under investigation.




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Uber wins stay of execution as judge grants a 15-month licence 

Uber has won a partial victory at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in getting its London operating licence renewed following safety concerns, with a judge granting a 15-month permit.




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'Heavily pregnant' woman forced to ask for a seat on the London tube

Blogger Anna Whitehouse - aka Mother Pukka - took to London's Underground network wearing a fake bump as part of a social experiment on Brits' attitudes towards pregnant women.




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London Tube commuters bake as temperatures hit 97F during rush hour

Commuters cooked in 97F heat inside crammed Tube carriages tonight on their way home from work. They wiped sweat from their brows and undone their shirts ahead of the sticky, stuffy journey.




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Bank holiday London tube chaos ahead as RMT announces strike action

Tube maintenance workers will carry out a 48-hour strike from the morning of August 22, followed by another two-day walk out from the evening of August 24.




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Police hunt London Tube passenger 'who threatened mother and baby'

Police are hunting a woman who allegedly launched a verbal attack on a mother with a pram and threatened her - because her young child accidentally kicked her on the Central Line.




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Tube passenger hunted over knife threat to mother and baby revealed

Millicent Barnes, from South London, was said to have launched a furious verbal attack on a family, including a one-year-old child, before implying she had a weapon on a Central Line train.




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Transport For London worker 'sexually assaulted colleague'

Damian Fichardo, 42, of Bexley, south east London, followed the victim into a women's toilet, pinned her against the washbasins and told her he wanted to ‘lick her’ intimately, a court heard.




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London Victoria station evacuated as commuters get 'trapped on platforms'

Thousands of commuters were left angry and stranded amid chaotic scenes in London this morning, as travellers complained of being trapped in Victoria station.




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Limited edition £80 Adidas x TFL trainers which came with free oyster of same value go on eBay

The trainers were the first of three limited edition Adidas designs being released in collaboration with Transport for London to mark 15 years of the Oyster travel card in the capital.




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London Tube passenger sparks outrage in blackface for Halloween

The man, said to have been from Bulgaria, on the Central Line in London appeared to have dressed up as Samuel L Jackson’s character Jules Winnfield from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.




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Central Line tube strike on London Underground just before Christmas

Workers on London Underground’s Central Line are to go on strike on the weekend before Christmas in a dispute over industrial relations, the RMT union announced.




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15 fascinating little known London Underground facts revealed 

We put 15 questions about the Tube to its Head of Network Delivery, Richard Jones. Here we reveal his answers – the inside track on the London Underground from a top insider.




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Sadiq Khan's bike bridge branded a 'vanity project' as estimated cost 'doubles to £400 million'

Transport for London has already spent £11.6million on Sadiq Khan's proposed bridge linking Canary Wharf with Rotherhithe in East London, but there are fears too few people would use it.




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Bus passenger hit with TFL fine and criminal record after iPhone died

Jemima Kelly tapped in on a London bus in October using Apple Pay on her phone to pay for the £1.50 ticket between zone one and two. Her phone died and she was charged £476.