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Turkey's Erdogan claims victory in presidential and parliamentary electionsTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won another term, securing an outright majority according to official results. The elections are the first held under a new system which gives the president expansive powers.

Netherlands considering paying people to cycle to work in effort to cut road congestion“Let’s get out of our cars and onto our bikes”, Dutch deputy infrastructure minister Stientje van Veldhoven said this week as she announced new measures to encourage cycling. She has proposed a compensation scheme for working adults in which they receive 19 cents (17p) for each kilometre they cycle as part of their commute.

Berlin: Imams, rabbis ride tandem bikes for mutual respect Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams took to tandem bicycles on Sunday to ride through central Berlin, in a joint show of interfaith respect and against racism and anti-Semitism.

German city of Mannheim seeks 'night mayor' of its dreamsOfficials in Mannheim, a university town at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers in western Germany, want to boost the city's nightlife — and to do that they're hiring a so-called "night mayor" to get the job done.

UK heatwave alert risk as temperatures forecast to top 30CThe Met Office said southern parts of the UK are likely to experience temperatures by midweek of 30C or more – the threshold for heatwave alerts to be issued.

Bots are suspected to run 1 in 10 Twitter accounts in Sweden – and they could impact the country's electionUsing artificial intelligence, FOI has developed software that analyses the Twitter flow based on key words and hashtags. The most active users tweet once every two minutes, around the clock, according to Linda Kakuli, one of the reporters at SVT.

Guide to inland Galicia, Spain: vineyards, hotels and restaurantsOne of Spain’s most mysterious regions, Ribeira Sacra is home to spectacular gorges and rivers, ancient monasteries and some of the country’s best wine.

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Everyone loses – employers, families and kids – as Kitaplatz waiting lists grow in Berlin

W. Thomas Halbleib III: An American football fan’s unbiased World Cup predictions

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