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Three armed men opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada, which is one of the most popular resorts.

The attack took place at Bella Vista Hotel, as international media report while security sources confirmed to Reuters that two tourists were injured.

Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation for offences including assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve with the perpetrators of sexual assaults yet to be identified, Germany's interior ministry said Jan. 8.

The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece, because an agreement with Turkey will not be sufficient to stop hundreds of thousands of migrants from entering Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Bulgaria should be admitted to the Schengen Area in order for the EU to be able to deal more effectively with the ongoing refugee crisis.

Orban added in an interview for a public radio on Friday that the EU should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece in order to halt the migrant influx to Europe.

Ferocious talks emerged in Germany and other European countries over the sexual assaults against women occurred by men of Arab or North African origin on New Year Eve’s  in five German cities and other cities in Europe.

German people demand explanations from German authorities about the handling of the attacks and ask them to reveal the identity of the perpetrators.

Finnish police have revealed an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year's Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women, AFP has reported.

Right before Paris was put on alert over yet another incident on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo assault by al-Qaeda on Jan. 7, former French President Nicholas Sarkozy claimed that the Schengen visa agreement "was dead." The agreement has brought visa-free travel to a number of European Union and non-EU European countries since the mid-1990s.

"Sectarian unrest is once more shaking the Islamic world. This is being administered by a mastermind. What is the issue at sake? That there should be a sectarian conflict in the Islamic world and that the Islamic world be divided into pieces," said President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

The unemployment rate in the European Union (EU28) has decreased to 9.1% in November 2015, from 9.2% in October, and from 10.0% in November 2014.

"This is the lowest rate recorded in the EU28 since July 2009," Eurostat announced on Thursday.

Turkey's main opposition leader has made clear that their fierce objection concerning President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) ambitions for a presidential system is not related to Erdo?an. It is the principle of the presidential system which draws the party's ire.