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Police Clash With Kurdish Protesters in Turkey

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Turkish media reports say Kurdish demonstrators have clashed with police in several towns in southeastern Turkey during protests marking the 15th anniversary of the capture of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

 

The Dogan news agency said riot police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to disperse the protesters, some of whom responded by hurling stones, fireworks or fire bombs.

 

A police vehicle caught fire in the town of Silopi, while a demonstrator was hurt by a fire bomb in Sirnak.

 

The demonstrators were protesting Ocalan’s continued imprisonment. Ocalan was captured in Kenya in 1999 and returned to Turkey where he is serving a life term in prison.

 

 

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China unveils plans to build 77-mile, £22billion tunnel that will be the longest in the world

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Chinese engineers have unveiled plans to build the world’s longest tunnel.

At 77 miles, the Dalian-Yantai tunnel on the country’s eastern coast will save travellers an eight-hour ferry ride or 900-mile road trip.

The £22billion project could start within a couple of years, with completion scheduled for 2026.

The world’s longest undersea tunnel, the Seikan in Japan, opened in 1988 after more than two decades of construction. The Channel tunnel is 31 miles long.

Engineers will submit a blueprint to the government by April for the tunnel and work could start as early as 2015 or 2016, the China Daily newspaper reported yesterday.

 

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The tunnel will run from the port city of Dalian in northeastern Liaoning province to Yantai city in eastern Shandong, slashing travel time to 40 minutes.

 

At present, the journey between the cities is a 1,400-km (870 miles) drive or an eight-hour ferry ride, the China Daily said.

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Take the stairs… all 3,000 of them: Dubai developer threatens to turn off the lifts in the world’s tallest building in dispute over unpaid fees

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If you live in the world’s tallest building, there is one thing you almost certainly cannot do without – access to the elevator.

But for the residents of the 160-storey Burj Khalifa in Dubai that has become a very real possibility.

They have been threatened with having to haul themselves up as many as 2,900 stairs after the developers warned it might cut off the lifts in a dispute over unpaid fees.

 

 

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Emaar Properties, which runs the 2,722ft tower, says some residents have failed to pay their service charges – which can be as high as $25,000 (£15,000) a year – since 2012.

It has not yet unplugged the air conditioning or the elevators, but has threatened to do so, according to CNN.

The Burj Khalifa contains nearly 1,000 apartments from floors 12 to 108.

One-bedroom flats fetch around $55,000 (£33,000) in rent a year, while service charges can add a further $25,000 (£15,000) to the total.

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Like tattoo peas in a pod! Argentinian couple are the world’s most inked lovebirds with more than three-quarters of their bodies covered

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He has 90 per cent of his body covered in tattoos. She a mere 65 per cent.

And with some 50 piercings between them, it’s no surprise Gabriela and Victor Peralta are a match made in heaven.

 

 

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The Argentinian lovebirds are the world’s most modified couple with a total of 77 bodily alterations that also include four microdermals, 11 body implants, five dental implants, four ear expanders, two ear bolts and one forked tongue.

 

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And they hold the official Guinness World Record for the most modified married couple to prove it.

Gabriela, 42, and Victor, 43, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been together for 13 years and say they are ‘perfect’ for each other.

 

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Victor said: ‘We spent Valentine’s Day together, we prepared a meal together and I was able to share the day with my Queen, Gaby.

 

‘We met 18 years ago, we are perfect for each other and we love each other very much.

 

‘We both have lots of tattoos and modifications and we continue to get them – we don’t really care what other people think.’

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