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New EU migrant plans ready next week: EU
The EU executive will outline new plans next week to share out refugees across European states as well as to speed deportations of unwanted migrants, the 28-nation bloc's migration commissioner said on Sept. 1.
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Turkey puts travel ban on 20,000 foreign fighters
Turkey has slapped a ban on 20,000 suspected foreign fighters, preventing them from heading to Syria and Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said Sept. 2, a day after one soldier was killed another went missing in a suspected attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on the Syrian border with Kilis.
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EU "risks losing decency" in migrant crisis
The EU is presenting itself in a "super-awkward and embarrassing" light with its handling of the refugee crisis, says German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.
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Turkish soldier killed, another missing on border with ISIL territory in Syria
A Turkish soldier died and another was missing on Sept.1 following cross-border fire from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) held territory in neighboring Syria, local officials said.
They told Reuters that a third soldier was lightly wounded in the incident on Sept. 1 in the southeastern province of Kilis, abutting territory controlled by the militants for months.
Myanmar's president signs off on law seen as targeting Muslims
Myanmar?s president on Aug. 30 signed into law the last of four controversial bills championed by radical Buddhists but decried by rights groups as aimed at discriminating against the country?s Muslim minority.
IMF: Some form of debt relief necessary for Greece
IMF Chief Christine Lagarde said some form of debt relief would be possible for Greece, according to Reuters. In an interview to Swiss newspaper ‘Le Temps’, the IMF head said that Greece could deal with its ‘unsustainable debt’, if some kind of a debt relief was adopted, but not a debt write-off, she added.
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Varoufakis: I will not take part in these sad elections
In his umpteenth interview former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he was planning to form a European network to restore democracy on the continent. Speaking to Reuters, Varoufakis said he would take part in the ‘sad elections’ in September. ‘Instead of having parties on a national level, it will be a European network active on a national level’. said the ‘erratic Marxist’.
Greece's Varoufakis says will not take part in 'sad elections'
Yanis Varoufakis will not take part in "sad" elections expected next month in Greece and will instead focus on setting up a new movement to "restore democracy" across Europe, the former Greek finance minister told Reuters on Aug. 27.
ISIL takes five Syrian villages near Turkish border: Monitor
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has seized five villages from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Aug. 27, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group.
Suspect in Virginia TV Double Killing Shoots Himself
The suspect in the killing of two television journalists in Virginia, US has shot himself on a higway in Fauquier County, according to state police, international news outlets reported on Wednesday.
WDBJ7, a CBS affiliate where the two journalists worked, identified the attacker as its former news reporter Vester Lee Flanagan. He was employed by WDBJ7 in 2012-2013.