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Sources in Washington say President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the next new Justice of the U-S Supreme Court. - 6newsen

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is visiting Turkey. - 6newsen

A car bomb exploded near a military base in Russia's southern Dagestan region on Sunday (May 9), killing at least one person, a military official said. - 6newsen

Violence marked the start of national elections in the Philippines. Police say at least six people were killed in gun battles between rival political factions in the southern island of Mindanao. The island is home violence involving Islamic rebels, the private armies of local warlords, and Philippine police and soldiers. - 6newsen

Sources in Washington say President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the next new Justice of the U-S Supreme Court. - 6newsen

At least seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen were killed. when gunmen attacked at six checkpoints in Baghdad. - 6newsen

Turkey's main secularist opposition leader on Monday resigned as the party chairman after a scandal. Last week, a video tape allegedly featuring Baykal having an affair with a female deputy of CHP was released on a video-sharing web-site. Baykal announced he resigned as the main opposition party chairman. - 6newsen

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara will always support a diplomatic solution to the international dispute over Iran's nuclear program. - 6newsen

U.S. authorities stopped an Emirates airline plane on a taxiway at New York's JFK airport over a security scare, but the incident was a "false alarm," a law enforcement source said on Thursday (May 6). - 6newsen

Special U-S envoy George Mitchie is due to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Middle East. Their talks come after Mitchell held a second day of discussions with Israeli leaders, ahead of the start of indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. - 6newsen

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake centered in southern Peru also shook Bolivia and Chile early on Thursday. - 6newsen

Candidates in United Kingdom elections are making their final push for votes as people across Britian prepare to cast their ballots. It is shaping up to be the closet election in decades, with political experts expecting the outcome to result in a hung parliament, where no party gets enough votes for an outright majority. - 6newsen

Clashes between Greek police and demonstrators broken out in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki Wednesday.That's as tens of thousands of Greeks protested harsh new spending cuts aimed at saving their country from bankruptcy. - 6newsen

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will NOT withdraw a major package to amend Turkey's Constitution from Parliament. That's even after a key article, on closing political parties, failed to win parliaments approval. So far, 13 articles, of the 27 Article package, HAVE won passage in the parliament. - 6newsen

Thai cabinet ministers arrived at a military base in Bangkok on Tuesday (May 4) for their weekly meeting, a day after Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva proposed November 14 elections as part of a reconciliation plan. - 6newsen

In Greece, communist protesters breached security at the Acropolis Tuesday. They unfurled giant banners calling for anti-government demonstrations across Europe. - 6newsen

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara is eager to open borders with Armenia, because Turkey wants full integration with its neighbors. - 6newsen

Thousands of protesters rallied and marched in New York Sunday, calling for an end to all nuclear weapons. Their call for destroying all nuclear weapons came just a day before the commencement of a major meeting on nuclear non-proliferation at the United Nations. This meeting is part of the five-yearly review process of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. That's the landmark 19-70 arms control treaty with 189 members. - 6newsen

Two bombs killed one person and injured 100 others in northern Iraq on Sunday, police said, in what appeared to be an attack on the country's Christian minority. - 6newsen

Several anti-government rallies have been organised by unions for Saturday, the May 1st Labour Day holiday. - 6newsen

The area was cordoned off by security forces immediately after the blast. - 6newsen

The value of the euro edged up on Friday, on expectations that Greece will soon receive Billions of Euros in aid form the E-U and the International Monetary Fun to help pay off its hefty debts. - 6newsen

Turkish government has unveiled the proposed route for Istanbul's third intercontinental bridge over the Istanbul Strait. - 6newsen

One of world's leading news magazines, U-S based TIME Magazine, has named Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as one of the most influential people in the world. The Turkish Prime was ranked the 17th in the magazine's "Leaders" section . It is part of the "2010 TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People's" list. - 6newsen

Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said he planned to call on the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC-PUIC, to convene a special session to discuss recent developments in east Jerusalem. - 6newsen

Turkey's government spokesman says the government plans to amend several articles of Turkish constitution, to make it more democratic and to strengthen the country's bid to join the European Union. - 6newsen

A wild bison strayed out of its habitat and walked into Dalsingpara village in Jalpaiguri district of India's eastern state of West Bengal. - 6newsen

Turkey's State Minister for the Economy, Ali Babacan will travel to Brussels, Belgium today. - 6newsen

U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman. He urged restraint following bloody confrontations between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army over the past few days. - 6newsen

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Rome on Saturday to show their solidarity with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi ahead of the regional elections on March 28th and 29th. - 6newsen