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Turkish air strikes hit 17 Kurdish militant targets, military says

By Ece Toksabay and and Seymus Cakan ANKARA/DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes hit 17 Kurdish militant targets in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Monday and Tuesday, the military said, as it ratchets up an offensive against the insurgents. Turkey has been buffeted by increased fighting between its military and the outlawed Kurdistan People’s Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for greater Kurdish autonomy. On Tuesday, the PKK

Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests

A Washington Post reporter arrested last year while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager has been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, the newspaper said on Monday. Wesley Lowery, 25, was arrested after police asked him and another reporter to leave a McDonald’s restaurant being used as a staging area for press coverage of the demonstrations that occurred after