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Turkey Moves to Advance Peace Process With P.K.K.

The government adopted a law that might prove a significant step toward ending an outlawed group’s decades-long battle with the Turkish state.

© Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party at a disarmament ceremony in the Qandil Mountains in Iraq last year.
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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Defense Pact

The agreement treats an attack on any of the countries as an attack on all, but in a region of volatile rivalries, it was unclear how it would work in practice.

© Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office, via Reuters

A photo released by the Turkish presidential office shows the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, being welcomed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.
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Migrant Crisis Reveals Vast Differences Between Ceuta and Its Moroccan Neighbor

Ceuta, Spain, and Fnideq, Morocco, are physically separated by only a mile, but they are intertwined by family and trade. A recent border crisis is the latest chapter in their story.

© Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

A border fence divides Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, seen from Fnideq.
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Ceuta Migration Crisis Exposes Despair Among Morocco’s Young People

Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

© Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Migrants returning back to Morocco. Last week, between 50,000 and 60,000 people entered Ceuta, a small Spanish exclave in North Africa that shares a border with Morocco.
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