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Polls have opened in Turkey’s joint presidential and parliamentary elections, seen as the biggest test at the ballot box for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of his 15 years in power. On Saturday, up to a million people turned out for one of the last opposition campaign rallies ahead of Sunday’s elections.The rally, held in Istanbul, was in support of Muharrem Ince, the main competitor to President Erdogan.Mr Erdogan is expected to be re-elected but might be forced into a run-off by the opposition. 3:02 Video: Final campaign push ahead of historic election in Turkey A coalition of parties have teamed…

A little-known education entrepreneur has swooped to seal an audacious takeover of Learndirect, Brit‎ain’s biggest provider of apprenticeships and adult training services. Sky News can reveal that Dimensions Training Solutions (DTS) struck a deal on Saturday to acquire Learndirect in a deal which will preserve roughly 1,000 jobs and the training courses of thousands more people.The ‎acquisition will be transformational for DTS, which is part of a wider group owned by Stonebridge Colleges, a mini-conglomerate in the further education sector.It will bring to an end months of uncertainty about Learndirect’s future, with doubts about its survival prospects exacerbated by an…

A murder investigation has been launched after a man who was found stabbed in a car park in Norwich died. Police believe the victim was not randomly attacked and have cordoned off the scene.They were called to the multi-storey car park in Rose Lane just after midnight on Saturday to reports the male had stab wounds.The victim, thought to be in his 40s, was taken to hospital but died after arrival.A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in police custody.The Norfolk force has appealed for any witnesses to come forward with…

A leading UK beauty pageant has vowed to keep its swimwear round, despite a US-equivalent deciding to scrap the event from its competition. Earlier this month, the Miss America beauty pageant said contestants would no longer have to take part in a mandatory bikini round. The pageant’s managers said the shift would put more emphasis on a contestant’s talents and skills, rather than her looks.But the organisers of Miss Great Britain told Sky News that they had no plans to follow suit.”We fully appreciate the potentially divisive nature of our decision but it is based on what our contestants want…

Donald Trump was never going to spend an entire week on the defensive – he just doesn’t do that. The counter attack was always going to come, and it came courtesy of the angel families – the relatives of victims killed by illegal immigrants.The president has faced widespread condemnation for the policy of zero-tolerance that led to families being split up after illegally crossing the border from Mexico.The consequence was children being detained separately from their parents, and images of some of them sleeping on the floor in cage-like structures in disused warehouses. Image: Migrant children have been seen in…

An executive order signed by Donald Trump to stop children being separated from their families at the US border has caused confusion among officials attempting to maintain the president’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The directive made earlier this week came amid mounting pressure from Democrats and Republicans alike, as well as disapproving public opinion polls, over scenes condemned across the country and internationally.Mr Trump had defended his approach before signing the order – reportedly following an intervention from his wife and daughter – and he and Vice President Mike Pence insisted the hard-line policy would continue.But it does not appear to…

Donald Trump has threatened a 20% tariff on all European cars if the EU does not remove trade barriers introduced on Friday. His threat – which if carried out would represent a serious escalation of the burgeoning trade war – comes hours after new EU tariffs on goods imported from the US came into force. Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their…

Airbus has said it is running out patience with the government and a “no-deal” Brexit would mean “chaos at the borders”. The company employs 14,000 people at several sites including Bristol, Stevenage, Portsmouth and north Wales, but another 110,000 jobs are also vulnerable at firms supplying the aircraft maker.In one of the most significant interventions by a major manufacturer since the referendum two years ago, it published a “risk assessment” on its website saying it would “reconsider its investments in the UK, and its long-term footprint in the country” if Britain left the single market and customs union without a…

Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane has lost a High Court action against the government’s current policy on gender-neutral passports. Elan-Cane has been fighting for ‘X’ passports for people who define as neither ‘M’ nor ‘F’.The campaigner argues the “denial of existence is the worst act of discrimination by the gendered majority against the non-gendered”.Elan-Cane believes the current passport forms are discriminatory, but a judge who heard arguments in the case in London in April dismissed the judicial review action today.During the April proceedings, Elan-Cane’s lawyers challenged the lawfulness of the policy administered by Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMP0), which is part of…

James Bond’s carmaker is drawing up plans to hand millions of pounds of discounted stock to wealthy customers as part of a London listing expected to value it at up to £5bn. Sky News has learnt that Aston Martin is working on incorporating a customer share offer into an initial public offering (IPO) that has been earmarked for the autumn.Details of the company’s plans have yet to be finalised, but are expected to be unveiled alongside a new employee share scheme at the time of the long-awaited flotation.If it proceeds, the customer offer would form part of efforts by Aston…