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When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called early elections two months ago, he seemed assured of victory. But as Sunday's vote approaches, the man who has transformed Turkey over 15 years in power appears increasingly vulnerable.

Around 100,000 supporters of the EU marched through central London on Saturday to demand that the British government hold a final public vote on the terms of Brexit, organisers said.

British singer and actor Sting called world leaders "half men and cowards" on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis.

The effects of President Trump's trade war are beginning to ripple through the US economy as steel tariffs disrupt domestic supply chains and global trading partners retaliate against a wide variety of American products, such as peanut butter, whiskey and lobster.

Malaysia's Prime Minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim was rushed to hospital late on Saturday night after he complained of a pain in his shoulder and back on his return from Turkey.

US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month, had no narcotics in his body when he died, a local prosecutor said on Friday.

President Trump appeared to take his battle with the news media to a new level on Thursday, apparently using the First Lady's much-covered visit with detained immigrant children in a Texas border town as an opportunity to spell out his grievances with the press.

President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies.

It is not known whether authors V.S. Naipaul and Vikram Seth, who live in the county of Wiltshire, have risked a recent visit to the picturesque medieval town of Salisbury but Prince Charles, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, did so on Friday.

Airbus issued its strongest warning yet over the impact of Britain's departure from the EU, saying a withdrawal without a deal would force it to reconsider its long-term position and put thousands of British jobs at risk.