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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Ahmet Turk, a veteran Kurdish politician and the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) candidate for the mayor of Mardin, told Rudaw that they have begun unofficial talks with Turkish officials about resuming the long-stalled Kurdish peace process, but noted that ultimate power over the matter rests with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with his grip on state institutions.

Alexander Petrovsky, head of the department of oncology and mammography at the N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, about the research underway to create vaccines aimed at treating cancer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said scientists in the country were close to developing vaccines for cancer that would soon be ready for patients. “I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy,” Putin said in a televised address from Moscow.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s Minister of Water Resources Aoun Diab said on Thursday that Syria has joined neighbouring Turkey and Iran in obstructing the flow of water into Iraq. He also accused Ankara of failing to comply with its agreement with Baghdad.

on Thursday that “Syria has also seized water from the Tabqa dam” in Raqqa province which is mostly under the control of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).