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Turkey blasts appears to target police officers

11/12/2016 GMT

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Bomb attacks kill police officers in Turkey; Mexico's drug war; Boxing music

Bomb attacks kill police officers in Turkey; Mexico's drug war; Boxing music.

Turkey's president Recep Erdoğan describes the police officers killed in the blasts in Istanbul as "martyrs"; a look at Mexico's change of policy in how to deal with drug cartel crime; A look at forty years of boxers using music as their fanfare into the ring.

(Image: Forensic police officers inspect a group of damaged buses following a twin suicide bomb attack near to Besiktas Vodaphone Arena on 10th December 2016 in Istanbul. Credit:Getty Images)

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