Turkey offers huge opportunities for foreign students

By Sorwar Alam

ANKARA; 05 Feb 2019; AA: Turkey has become one of the top destinations for international students as the country offers tremendous opportunities for learning.

The importance of the country -- located at the crossroads of three continents – has also become clearer in recent years both economically and politically.

The government has announced a vision to draw around 500,000 foreign students by offering attractive scholarships.

State of the Union among most sensitive security challenges

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one of the most sensitive security challenges in America: The State of the Union address puts the president, his Cabinet, members of Congress, military leaders, top diplomats and Supreme Court justices all in the same place at the same time for all the world to see.

Protecting everyone requires months of planning and coordination involving multiple law enforcement agencies, led by the U.S. Secret Service. Thousands of officers work across agencies in ways seen and unseen.

The age of algorithms

By Murat Aslan

ISTANBUL; 03 Feb 2019; AA: “At the end of the World War II, the average holding period for a stock was 4 years. By 2000, it was 8 months. By 2008, it was 2 months. And by 2011 it was 22 seconds, at least according to Professor Michael Hudson’s estimates from University of Missouri-Kansas City,” says Scott Patterson in his groundbreaking book, Dark Pools.

Washington's withdrawal from INF Treaty might open Pandora's box

BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United States announced Friday it will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, despite global calls for it to tread cautiously.

The signing of the treaty back in 1987 between the United States and the Soviet Union was often regarded as a turning point of the Cold War and the pact was also seen as a fundamental treaty for the existing world nuclear non-proliferation mechanism.

Indian Election: Desperation of BJP all the more evident

by Sitaram Yechury

31 Jan 2019; GANASHAKTI: PM MODI is clearly rattled by reading the writing on the wall concerning the outcome of the 2019 general elections. As a result, he is doling out various excuses and reasons in order to portray the efforts for unity, that is emerging among the secular opposition for the ouster of the BJP from government, as an act of either opportunism, an act of money bags getting together or an act of sheer desperation; that it is Modi versus the rest in the forthcoming elections. Let us examine these claims of the prime minister.

Arab states should be fully prepared for potential 2020 economic crisis from U.S.

AMMAN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Arab countries should be fully prepared for a potential economic crisis that may start in 2020 from the United States, a Jordanian expert said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

Arab countries should not entirely rely on the United States as a global economic crisis is expected to hit in 2020, said Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman of Jordan-based Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG) for professional services and education.

Moscow to consider INF Treaty mandatory for Russia, US after February 2

KUBINKA /Moscow Region/, January 23. /TASS/. Moscow will continue to regard the terms of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty mandatory for both signatories - Russia and the United States - after February 2, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told a joint news briefing by the Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry devoted to the cruise missile 9M729.

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