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Greece has blocked a European Union statement at the United Nations criticizing China's human rights record, a decision EU diplomats said undermined efforts to confront Beijing's crackdown on activists and dissidents.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on June 14 that it had documented cases where workers building venues for Russia's 2018 World Cup had been left unpaid, made to work in dangerously cold conditions, or suffered reprisals for raising concerns.

Various international organisations have called on the Bulgarian authorities to ensure the security of the LGBTI activists who will march in the Tenth Anniversary Sofia Pride on Saturday in the centre of the Bulgarian capital after threats from extreme nationalists.

For the second day in a row, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attacked Chelsea Clinton with a coarse tirade for her criticism of his “joke” that his soldiers could rape women with impunity during martial law. He accused President Bill Clinton’s daughter of failing to denounce her father’s sexual relationship with Monica Lewinski in the White House.

Without focusing on whether Turkey is European or Middle Eastern, can't we view relations between Turkey and the European Union from the perspective of the law, diplomacy and the economy? 

Let us start with a decision by our Constitutional Court.

Philippine troops engaged Islamic State-linked militants in pitched clashes on Thursday around the southern city of Marawi as the military deployed tanks to secure vital installations in a battle that has become a major test for President Rodrigo Duterte’s government.

As US-backed forces are on the brink of liberating Mosul in northern Iraq, reports are emerging that the advancing allied forces are executing captured ISIS fighters. Some ISIS jihadists are killed in front lines, while others are executed after being interrogated.

A team of international legal experts will represent Serbians suffering from cancer as a result of the 1999 bombing by bringing cases against NATO states, the head of the Serbian Royal Academy of Scientists and Artists told BIRN.

Two Turkish nationals arrested in Malaysia are being held on suspicion of funding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Kuala Lumpur said May 4, contradicting a state-run Anadolu Agency report which a day earlier claimed the suspects were members of the Gülen network, widely believed to have orchestrated last year's coup attempt.   

Two Turkish nationals who went missing in Malaysia have been arrested as a security threat, the police chief announced on May 3.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar tweeted that Turgay Karaman and İhsan Aslan were arrested "because they threatened the security of Malaysia."

No further details were provided by authorities and the Turkish embassy refused to comment.