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Turkey will not go through with an agreement to take back refugees if the European Union does not fulfill its pledges, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, as Reuters reports.

One police officer was killed on April 7 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin amid ongoing security operations.

Global airline passenger traffic grew 6.8 percent in 2015, with the Middle East region growing the fastest, preliminary data released on April 6 by the United Nations' civil aviation agency showed.

NASA has responded to remarks by Turkish Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu, who raised eyebrows by claiming that Turkey's technology on meteorological weather forecasts is more advanced than that of the space agency. 

The leader of the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM , Zoran Zaev, said his party will not participate in the early elections set for June 5, insisting that key reforms, including those in the media to ensure objective election coverage, as well as cleaning up the electoral roll, had not been achieved.

Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS) and the specialized prosecutor's office conducted an inspection at the State Fund Agriculture on Wednesday.

The executive director of the fund, Rumen Porozhanov, revealed that the authorities requested documents concerning contracts under the Rural Development programme.

Jadranka Joksimovic has said that the criteria for opening EU accession talks chapters has not yet been on the agenda of "the committee for enlargement."

The Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of EU integration in this way reacted to reports on Wednesday that Croatia has already blocked Serbia's accession negotiations.

Turkish artillery units began to shell Syrian positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hours after two projectiles hit the southeastern province of Kilis, located near Turkey's Syrian border, and wounded three on April 7. 

Military officials said the ISIL positions spotted by projectile traces were under heavy shelling following the incident.

The European Commission proposed on Wednesdayto establish an entry-exit system to make faster, easier and stronger the border checksfor non-EU nationals travelling to the bloc.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder and former head of France's far-right National Front party, has been convicted of denying crimes against humanity for repeating that the Nazi gas chambers are a "detail" of World War II history.

A Paris court convicted then sentenced Le Pen on Wednesday to a 30,000 euros ($34,000) fine plus paying damages to three associations, plaintiffs in the case.