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Astronauts' Secret Weapon: Wearable Gadgets Prevent Space Disorientation

In the boundless expanse of space, astronauts face perilous challenges that often require rigorous training to overcome. Among these challenges is spatial disorientation, a potentially life-threatening issue. However, a groundbreaking solution may lie in wearable devices that offer orientation cues through vibrations, potentially making spaceflight safer.

Why Turkey’s currency is crashing after Erdogan got reelected

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection last month despite a battered economy and a cost-of-living crisis that experts say are exacerbated by his unconventional economic policies.

The longtime leader appointed an internationally respected former banker as finance and treasury minister and on Friday named a former co-CEO of a US-based bank as head of the central bank.

Erdogan’s AKP party signals return to more orthodox economic policies in draft election manifesto, sources say

The draft election manifesto of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party marks a return to more orthodox, free market economic policies, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Turkey is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 and opinion polls show that Erdogan will face his biggest electoral challenge yet in his two decades in power.

We will support production, exports with lower rates: Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 30 again rejected the idea of raising interest rates.

"With the new economic model, we reject out of hand the policy of attracting hot money with high interest rates," Erdoğan said in an interview on state TV.

"We will support production and exports with lower rates," Erdoğan stated. 

Christian NGO’s Child Sponsorship Program Angers Kosovo Parents

The project involved collecting data on some 3,000 children in need, aged 3 to 12, from about 30 villages in the Lipjan area.

Under the terms of the program, the donors send letters to sponsored children, in most cases Americans.

But three years on, some parents began to suspect that World Vision was misusing their children's data.

Turkish Central Bank reserves to surpass $115 bln: Erdoğan

Turkish Central Bank's reserves will surpass $115 billion when pending transactions are completed, Turkey's president said on Aug. 24. 

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The bank's official reserves so far stand at $109 billion, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at the meeting of AKP provincial heads in the capital Ankara.

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