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Turkish President Erdogan has dismissed claims that Arabs ’stabbed Turkey in the back’ during World War One as ’nonsense’.

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(CNN) — How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, ...

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