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Top Turkish officials to visit Pakistan Wednesday, source says
KDAL - Minnesota
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July 8, 2025
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s foreign and defence ministers will visit Pakistan on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to discuss bilateral ties, regional issues, and defence industry cooperation, a Turkish diplomatic source said...
Sony strikes hard with a Karate Kid Ultimate 6-Movie 4K Blu-ray set
JoBlo
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July 8, 2025
Karate Kid: Legends is now available on digital, but Blu-ray.com is reporting that Sony has announced a special 6-movie Karate Kid film collection that will be on 4K Blu-ray. You can own The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part...
Can the Middle East, Europe replace China in driving luxury fashion demand?
Gulf Business
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July 8, 2025
Image: Image for illustrative purposes/ BAV TAiLOR/ Arab Fashion Week Europe is the global epicentre of fashion, blending cultural heritage, luxury craftsmanship, and design innovation. However, over the last plus two decades, China and Chinese...
Twitter AI Grok Can’t Correctly Identify Movies (And It’s a Problem)
Comicbook
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July 8, 2025
X AKA Twitter has its own AI bot known as Grok which can be summoned at any time, under any post. Typically, people will ask Grok to verify information in a post or provide additional context. Sometimes it can be helpful, but Grok has been...
Turkey Opens Spotify Probe After 'Provocative Playlist' Complaint
International Business Times
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July 5, 2025
Turkey's competition authority has launched an investigation into Spotify for anti-competitive practices as a deputy minister demanded legal action over "provocative" playlists allegedly offensive to the president's wife and disrespectful of...
Trkiye's traditional oil wrestling festival blends sport, heritage
Oklahoma City Sun
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EDIRNE, Trkiye, July 8 (Xinhua) -- With wrestlers taking to the field to the beat of drums echoing through Trkiye's northwestern border city of Edirne, the centuries-old oil wrestling festival once again draws enthusiastic crowds and celebrates a...
THIS Bollywood movie became the first to enter Rs 100 crore club, sold 12 crore tickets, holds record for…, the film is…
Bollywood Life
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July 8, 2025
What is the success of a movie based on? Nowadays, the success of a movie is based on how much money it makes and reaches Rs 100 crore, and Rs 300 crore very easily. However, in the olden days, it was very hard to reach Rs 100 crore and reaching...
Murray Watt ramps up lobbying efforts in last-minute push to get Murujuga rock art on world heritage list
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
The environment minister, Murray Watt, hosted more than a dozen ambassadors from countries on the world heritage committee on Monday as he ramped up lobbying efforts to get the Murujuga rock art complex inscribed on the world heritage list. Unesco...
Sports News | Five Indians Book Final Berths at World Boxing Cup
Latestly
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July 5, 2025
Astana (Kazakhstan), Jul 5 (PTI) Meenakshi, Sakshi, Pooja Rani, Hitesh Gulia and Jugnoo registered convincing victories to reach the finals of their respective weight categories at the World Boxing Cup, here on Saturday. India's boxing contingent...
Photos show Turkey’s youngest oil wrestlers keeping a 14th-century tradition alive
Regional Media News - Iowa
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July 8, 2025
EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) — On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkey’s most time-honored sporting event: the annual Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Championship. Held every summer...
‘Cinema Jazireh’: An Afghan Woman Looking for a Loved One Must Transform Herself (KVIFF Trailer)
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 5, 2025
The threat of death lurks around every corner in Cinema Jazireh, whether in the form of the Taliban or the desert. The second feature from Turkey’s Gözde Kural (Dust) is set in Afghanistan and will world premiere on Thursday as one of the 12...
Blackburn Rovers: Turkish club reveal €1m Tyrhys Dolan wages demand - Bristol City could now strike
Football League World
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July 7, 2025
Samsunspor President Yüksel Yıldırım has confirmed that the club have pulled out of the race to sign Tyrhys Dolan this summer due to his wage demands, in what could be a boost for Bristol City. It was reported by Alan Nixon this past weekend that...
Turkey blocks 46 crypto site in major crackdown
Cryptopolitan
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July 5, 2025
Turkey’s financial regulator has unleashed one of its most sweeping crackdowns yet on the cryptocurrency sector. Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (CMB) has reportedly blocked access to 46 crypto websites, including the second-largest global...
From fast fashion to ‘conscious style’: Can we break the cycle of overconsumption?
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Spring turkey harvest was up
Ohio Ag Net/Ohio's Country Journal
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July 7, 2025
Good news for gobbler hunters: Ohio’s wild turkey hunters checked 16,014 birds during the spring 2025 season, an uptick from recent years. The total statewide harvest represents all turkeys checked from April 19 to June 1, along with the 1,740...
Turkey investigations Spotify for anti-competitive practices
BGNES
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July 5, 2025
Turkey's competition commission has decided to investigate the online music streaming service Spotify for anti-competitive practices. The commission claims that Spotify's strategies and policies have an anti-competitive impact on the music...
Turkish teams rival Sunderland’s interest in Lyon’s Georges Mikautadze
Get French Football News
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July 4, 2025
4Sunderland are interested in Olympique Lyonnais forward Georges Mikautadze (24), however, they aren’t the only club in the race, as Foot Mercato have revealed. Whilst there will not be a fire sale at Lyon following the DNCG’s confirmation of the...
“He Just Wanted His Wine and TV”: World’s Oldest Cat Lived to Record Age Thanks to Daily Red Wine Ritual on the Couch
Sustainability Times
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July 7, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🐱 Creme Puff, a tabby cat from Austin, Texas, lived to the age of 38, setting a record for feline longevity. 🍳 Her daily routine included scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, broccoli, and a drop of red wine every other day in a social...
Ex Seinfeld Writer Doesn’t Hold Back While Explaining Why Cocaine Was So Popular Among TV Show Staffs In The ‘80s: ‘Everybody Was Doing It’" target="_self"…
Cinema Blend
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July 8, 2025
Larry Charles, ex Seinfeld writer, has had a long career in Hollywood. He took the time to reflect on his tenure while highlighting a very specific era in showbiz: the 1980s, when cocaine was regularly circulated through La La Land. And, even more...
Twelve Turkish soldiers die from methane gas exposure during cave search in Iraq
The National News
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Turkey's Defence Ministry on Monday said 12 soldiers had died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in caves in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The ministry said the incident had taken place on Sunday inside a cave in Duhok...