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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has blamed European countries for abandoning Syrian refugees to their fate by shutting their doors to them.

One soldier has been killed in clashes with militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Van. 

Security forces raided a house in Van's Erci? district on Nov. 13, based on intelligence that PKK militants were inside. 

Militants opened fire with long-barreled weapons as soldiers raided the house in the Gergili neighborhood. 

Lebanon observed a national day of mourning on Nov. 13 after two suicide bombs the day before killed 43 people in southern Beirut, in an act the United Nations condemned overnight as "despicable."

A diplomatic source from the European Commission has categorically denied that the EU proposed to "soften" the content of the Progress Report if Turkey cooperated more closely over the refugee issue, as recently alleged by Turkish EU Minister Beril Dedeo?lu. 

"This is untrue," said the source, adding there was "no link" between the report and talks on the refugee issue. 

British brewer SABMiller, fresh from agreeing to a vast $121-billion takeover from global leader Anheuser-Busch InBev, posted sliding first-half net profits on Nov. 12 on the back of the strong dollar.

Russia's economy shrank 4.1 percent in the third quarter this year, official statistics showed on Nov. 12, as a recession caused by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine continued to take its toll.

New claims for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits held steady last week, close to a four-decade low as the jobs market firms, the Labor Department reported on Nov. 12.

Initial jobless claims, an indicator of the pace of layoffs, totaled 276,000 in the week ending November 7, the same as the previous week.

Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel has said people wearing t-shirts and jeans instead of a suit and tie would not be granted admittance to the Antalya International Film Festival this year, in an attempt to uphold the prestige of the event.

The first ever gastronomy conference targeting professionals in Turkey, the National Gastromasa Conference, will be held on Nov. 14 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Istanbul's ?i?li district.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have expressed their concern over the government's refusal to grant accreditation to some media outlets for the Nov. 15-16 G-20 Summit in Antalya.