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The militant Kurdish group TAK has admitted carrying out an attack that killed 28 people in Ankara last week. The Turkish government had blamed the PKK and its Syrian offshoot the YPG for the bomboing. Some commentators still see the YPG as the mastermind. Others say it is innocent and suspect a deliberate strategy behind the Turkish government's rhetoric.

After the most recent attack in Ankara observers fear Turkey could hit back with an offensive in Syria, provoking an open confrontation between Moscow and Ankara. How will the two countries react?

The EU summit in Brussels is turning into a showdown on the Brexit issue. Will Prime Minister David Cameron manage to secure enough concessions from his EU partners to persuade his countrymen to stay in the EU?

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and Polish popular hero Lech Wałęsa is once again facing allegations that he worked for the communist secret service. Files have surfaced which reportedly confirm this. Will Polish history have to be rewritten?

Apple chief Tim Cook has refused to help the FBI disable the security features of an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernadino attackers. In an open letter he said he would defy a court order to cooperate with the intelligence service. Is Apple right to insist that its mobile phones must not be broken into?

The European Union will let most of its sanctions against Belarus expire on the grounds that ahead of Lukashenko's re-election in 2015 the number of human rights abuses in the country decreased and political prisoners were freed. But is lifting the punitive measures the right solution?