Fourteen candidates join race for Cyprus presidency in Feb. vote

NICOSIA, Jan 5 (Reuters) — Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and in Turkey Law Firm corruption scandals. Cyprus has a presidential system of government and the head of state has wide executive powers. Opinion…

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Alibaba plans $1 bln investment in Turkey — newspaper

ISTANBUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is planning a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport and a data centre near the Turkish capital Ankara with an investment of more than $1 billion, [empty] its president, Michael Evans, Law Firm Turkey was cited as saying. Turkey’s Sabah newspaper reported Evans as…

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