The US embassy in Ankara said on Tuesday that the State Department has allowed the family of staff members to leave the country at will. The statement comes amid a state of emergency imposed after the failed coup that took place on July 15.

The voluntary departure of employees' family members is being allowed by both the US embassy in Ankara and the US Consulate General in Istanbul.

"The Department of State made this decision following the July 15 attempted coup and subsequent declaration by the Turkish government of a 90-day State of Emergency," a security message published on the embassy's website on Tuesday states.

The Department "advises US citizens to reconsider travel to Turkey at this time."

"During this period, US citizens in Turkey may see an increase in police or military activities and restrictions on movement," a memo emailed to US citizens residing in Turkey states.

A spectacular implosion has beset the Democratic Party following the Wikileaks release of memos and emails proving, well, just about every accusation from independent media and Sanders supporters made throughout the past year — many of which had been mocked publicly as conspiracies by party insiders.

In the latest jaw-dropper over the nearly 20,000-document leak deserving of the title, DNC-Gate, already-loathed Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz — shamed into resignation from decisive evidence of party collusion with corporate presstitutes against Sanders, among multiple other once-conspiracies — has been dutifully scooped up in an act of mordant hubris by none other than her teflon idol, Hillary Clinton.

Turkey asked on Monday for an apology from U.S.-based cable channel NBC News for its claim about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's whereabouts during the coup attempt in Turkey last Friday. The report by the channel, attributed to a senior U.S. defense official, falsely stated that Erdoğan refused landing rights in Istanbul and was seeking asylum in Germany.

Erdoğan proved the report wrong by arriving in Istanbul the night of the coup and giving a subsequent televised speech on the failed attempt.


The Turkish Embassy in Washington said in a letter that false reporting in such sensitive times for Turkey was a highly irresponsible act and further increased the already high amount of misinformation. The letter which was addressed to NBC News and producer Kyle Griffin, added: "It is outrageous that such important and sensitive information about the well-being of the Turkish President was handled in such an unprofessional way and was divulged without properly checking its validity and the credibility of the source."

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has launched an inquiry following a video broadcast on national TV which showed children being teargassed and strapped to chairs at a detention center that has been likened to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

The footage, aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), showed CCTV video of children being detained at the Don Dale Youth Detention Center in Darwin, in the far north of the country.

The grim images show officers grabbing the neck of a boy named Dylan Voller and throwing him to the ground. He is then subsequently stripped naked. Another video shows Voller being teargassed by correctional officers, who just seconds before can be heard saying they wanted to "pulverize" him. Voller suffered some of this abuse when he was just 13. He was on the receiving end of violence for over four years.

"Like all Australians, I've been deeply shocked - shocked and appalled by the images of [the] mistreatment of children," Turnbull said, as quoted by Reuters.

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President Francois Hollande has said that France would fight the so-called Islamic State group "by all means".

"We are confronted with a group, Daesh, which has declared war on us," Hollande said, using an alternative name for Isis. "We have to wage war, by every means, (but through) upholding the law, which is because we are a democracy."

Hollande said the assailants "claimed to be from Daesh" and branded the assault as a "vile terrorist attack". "The Catholic community has been hit, but it is all of the French public which is concerned," Hollande said.

He called for national unity in the face of terrorism, urging the French people to "create a solid bloc that no-one can split".

He was speaking after two attackers entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in a suburb of Rouen in northern France and killed a priest.

The US-led anti-terror coalition in Syria has been "astonishingly" silent about recent reports claiming dozens of civilian casualties in Manbij were caused by its airstrikes, Russia's UN Ambassador said, expressing fears that the probe could be scuttled. Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Vitaly Churkin said that, while Moscow has been "extremely worried" by the reports of civilian deaths in northern Syria, delegations from the Western countries"astonishingly... did not say a word" regarding the matter during the meeting.

Pointing out that an investigation into civilian casualties caused by NATO bombings in Libya has not been forthcoming even five years on, Churkin said no "promises of investigation" on the Manjib deaths were necessary. "I'm sure the American military already very well know the state of affairs," the UN Ambassador said.

After Churkin's speech, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said that Washington would "carefully and thoroughly review any and all credible information we can gather about the incident, including information from organizations within Syria that document harm to civilians." Saying that "the United States goes to extraordinary lengths to reduce the risk of non-combatant casualties," the US official instead accused both Damascus and Moscow of striking "hospitals, clinics and medical personnel" in Syria.

Churkin said his US counterpart's surprising reference to the role of civil organizations in investigating the deaths in Aleppo province made him believe that the truth would probably never be known and "everything [could be] swept under the carpet.""So are there no American drones, no American- and their allies' special forces in Syria, no satellite intelligence capabilities of the US, no videos which are being made by all modern fighter jets when conducting a strike? I would not want to believe that the military condition of the US-led coalition is so poor," Churkin told the Security Council meeting, adding that Russia's Defense Ministry "instantly" conducts investigations when accusations against Moscow emerge - and makes all of the evidence public.

Several attacks of migrants from the Middle East have shaken Germany and France during the last week. July 18 17-year-old Afghan teen, armed with an ax attacked the train passengers in Würzburg in Bavaria. As it turned out, the young man was placed in a foster home, but came under the influence of propaganda ISIS. Then, on July 22 migrants from Iran Ali Sonboly shot in Munich adolescents of Turkish and Albanian origin, and then shot himself. A total of 10 people were killed. 24 July 21-year-old refugee from Syria in the German city of Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg) attacked with a machete a pregnant female kebab vendor. A woman was killed, 5 others wounded. Finally, in the evening July 24 in Ansbach (Bavaria) Syrian refugee blew himself up. 12 people were injured. Today, July 26 a priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men at his church near Rouen in northern France. Attackers armed with knives took hostages during morning Mass.

All of these attacks are attributed several factors: criminals turned out to be migrants, all of them had psychological problems, some drank and used drugs. All the German crimes were committed in South Germany (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg), which witnessed the greatest influx of migrants last year during a crisis with Syrian refugies. Attacks have taken place with a very short interval, but no obvious connection is not visible among the actual perpetrators.

It is worth noting that the attack took place immediately after the terrorist attack in Nice in France. At the same time ISIS intensified terrorist activities around the world. Only as a result of the recent explosion 80 people were killed in Kabul.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow considers the existing status quo on Palestine inadmissible and calls for relaunching the negotiation process.

"We also intend to continue to provide all possible assistance in resolving the Palestinian problem acting through both the bilateral channels and within various multilateral formats," the head of state said in his message of greetings to the heads of state and government of the Arab League member-countries.

"We believe the existing status quo in unacceptable and favor creating the conditions for the speedy relaunching of the negotiation process that will be aimed at creating an independent, viable and integral Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem peacefully coexisting with its neighbors," the president said.

As The Duran previously reported the Russians rejected Kerry's offer of a place in a US led anti-ISIS coalition in return for letting Assad go.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has now confirmed publicly what we said previously: the talks in Moscow with US Secretary of State John Kerry were a failure.

This is what we said about the proposal Kerry took with him to Moscow:

".......it seems that the US offered to join with the Russians in a joint military campaign in Syria against Al Qaeda and Daesh. Prior to going to Moscow Kerry also let slip that some of what he called "subgroups" affiliated to Al Qaeda would be targeted as well. However in return the Russians were apparently expected to accept US leadership of the military campaign, cease bombing rebel groups in Syria aligned with the US, and agree to the eventual removal of President Assad."

It turns out that Donald Trump's proposed border wall is not such a bad idea after all. Though Mexico's current and former Presidents have both lambasted Trump for implying that a wall would curb immigration, it turns out that Mexicans like the idea.

There is one small caveat, however. Mexicans don't want to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but rather, they want to stem the tide of immigration into their own country by building the wall on their southern border with central America:

One of the largest newspapers along Mexico's border with Texas is calling for a border wall with Central America, similar to the one being promoted by Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump.

The editorial board of El Mañana, one of the largest newspapers in the border state of Tamaulipas, penned a piece called "Yes to the Border Wall ... but in Mexico's South." The piece praises the idea of border wall, not on the border with Mexico, but on the border with Central America.

"Along the Mexican border peace and quiet came to an end, Central Americans played a large influence," El Mañana's piece claimed.

The Mexican border newspaper provides a controversial view on the Border Wall; which is one of the main topics in Trump's campaign.

"Mexico's southeast has two borders; one with Guatemala and one with Belize, that do not provide any benefit, but on the contrary only problems are brought by these crossing points that are being used for the new invasion. The one use by Central American's looking for a way into the United States. " El Mañana's editorial board wrote.

One of the issues mentioned in the editorial piece points not only to the hordes of Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Hondurans that flock to Reynosa in an effort to get to the U.S., but also to the large number of Central Americans that are left in Mexico after deportation.

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