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Russian tourists' bookings for holidays in Türkiye, especially in Antalya, have increased by 20 percent in the past few weeks compared with April and May, Turkish daily Milliyet has reported.

Russian holidaymakers had delayed vacation plans due to the ongoing war and elevated inflation which eroded their purchasing power. Russians were looking for alternative destinations to Türkiye.

New data published by European border security agency Frontex on Monday showed that detections of irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders reached a total of nearly 80,700 in the first four months of 2023.

In the middle of this year, India is expected to become the most populous country in the world and overtake China in terms of population by almost 3 million people, Reuters and BTA reported, referring to a UN report published today.

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall joined Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX index yesterday, highlighting the improving fortunes of the country's weapons industry as the Ukraine war spurs demand.

In a country still haunted by Nazi atrocities during World War II, Germany's weapons manufacturers were far from the country's most celebrated firms.

The European Union has announced that a donors' conference for Türkiye and Syria after devastating earthquakes will take place on March 20 instead of March 16 in Brussels.

Ankara has criticized the EU's 2022 Türkiye report as another example of Brussels' biased stance against the candidate country, rejecting its findings on backsliding of fundamental rights as well as its pro-Greek approach on the eastern Mediterranean dispute.

The photographs of the recent cordial meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Sochi reveal in themselves that there is a high level of understanding between the two autocrats.

France and Spain currently represent around 40 percent of the land destroyed in the EU in the first six months of the year

Data published by the Polish Ministry of Family and Social Policy at the beginning of June showed that just little over 185,000 of that total number were now formally employed in the country.

Turkey is a popular holiday destination for Russians and Ukrainians. The war in Ukraine threatens to dash Turkish hopes of a post-pandemic recovery in the vital tourism sector.