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  "id": 18133537,
  "title": "Turkey's parliament set to ratify defence pact with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan as Houthi attacks mount",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/turkeys-parliament-set-to-ratify-defence-pact-with-saudi-arabia",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-04T14:46:34.000Z",
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  "summary": "ANKARA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament is set on Wednesday to ratifya defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that includes a collective defence clause, committing NATO's second-largest army to Riyadh's defence as it faces attacks by Yemen's Iran-backedHouthis. Ratification gives Ankara a formal mutual defence obligation toward Saudi Arabia, but it does not on its own send Turkish…",
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