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KARACHI, Pakistan – Police and hospital officials say a roadside bomb has struck a bus carrying police officers in southern Pakistan, wounding at least 10 people. Police officer Mohammad Ali says the attack took place Friday morning in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. He says the bus …

ISTANBUL – An Istanbul court has acquitted 236 military officers of charges of plotting a coup to overthrow the government of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court ruled Tuesday in favor of the officers in their retrial, launched months after the Turkey’s highest court ruled that the original trial …

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan’s president has fired the heads of the country’s central bank and its natural gas company in the wake of economic troubles that brought the country’s currency down 18.5 percent this year. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s orders at a Cabinet session Saturday were reported by the tightly controlled …