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Former UN chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies
Former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who led the world body during one of its most difficult periods, with failed missions in Rwanda and Bosnia, died Feb. 16 in Cairo. He was 93.
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Hamlet adaptations at Ankara Film Festival
The 27th Ankara International Film Festival will bring film versions of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy "Hamlet" to the big screen.
In a section titled "There is Something Rotten in the World," Hamlet adaptations shot over the years in five different countries - Yugoslavia, Germany, Finland, France and Britain - will be screened at the festival.
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Hit by migrants, 'European values' are crumbling
The current president of Italy's chamber of deputies, Laura Boldrini, knows a lot about refugees. Before she took over her latest public office during Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi's term in 2013, she was the spokesperson for the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees and dealt with the crisis of refugees and migrants flooding her country.
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Spreading our kindness 12,000 km further to Ecuador
I am challenging myself on whether I will be able to write some odd and complicated thoughts in an acceptable manner. I mean, in this extremely free environment of expression in Turkey, it should not be so hard.
EU ready to seal Greece-FYROM border
EU member states examine the details of a controversial plan, which includes sending border guards and even troops to FYROM’s border with Greece in an effort to stop the flow of migrants entering northern Europe, as the Financial Times writes.
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Kosovo, Bosnian Activists Demand End to Visas
Activists from Bosnia and Kosovo meeting in Pristina on Friday issued a joint call to their governments to end the visa restrictions impeding relations between the two countries.
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Germany's Merkel says refugees must return home once war over
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 30 tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
Collective centers for refugees and IDPs to be closed
17 remaining collective centers will be closed, Assistant Commissioner for Refugees and Migration Danijela Popovic Rocco said on Friday.
These centers now accommodate around 1,000 refugees from the territory of the former Yugoslavia (SFRY) and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo and Metohija.
Bosnia Could Release Abu Hamza in February
Imad al-Husin, better known as Abu Hamza, who has been detained without trial at the Lukavica immigration centre of under suspicion of representing a threat to Bosnian national security, will be soon released, his lawyer said on Thursday.
"Abu Hamza could be released in February," Nedim Kulenovic, the lawyer from the NGO Vasa Prava, which is representing al-Husin, told BIRN.
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Croatians Pray for Tito’s Soul in Zagreb
A Croatian journalist organised a Catholic mass for Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Broz Tito as a ‘social experiment’ after a religious service was held for a WWII fascist leader in Zagreb.
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