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Dozens of refugees trying to reach Europe drown as boat sinks off Mauritania
Dec 05, 2019 17:53At least 58 refugees trying to reach Europe from West Africa die as their makeshift boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, but dozens of survivors managed to swim to shore.
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NATO spending plans confirm Russia concerns over alliance's military expansion
Dec 04, 2019 14:35Russia says reports about NATO's plans to boost its military spending confirm Moscow's concerns over the US-led alliance’s eastward expansion, which President Vladimir Putin said was threatening his country.
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Malta's PM ‘to resign in January’ over slain reporter's case
Dec 01, 2019 17:34Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will reportedly resign next month as a police investigation into the 2017 murder of a journalist reaches the highest ranks of his office.
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US-China trade friction sends European shares lower
Nov 20, 2019 16:13European stocks were on track for their worst day in six weeks on Wednesday, as a threat of US-China trade negotiations hitting an impasse weighed, while a slump in Germany’s Wirecard and falling oil prices added to the gloom.
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The business of building walls
Nov 15, 2019 06:45As Europe marked the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is tragic that so many new walls have been built across Europe to keep out the most vulnerable people on the planet.
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UN: Daesh militants’ home states must take them back
Nov 12, 2019 17:59UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the home countries of Daesh terrorists captured in Iraq and Syria must take back their terrorist nationals.
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Seeds of Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ are in Europe itself
Oct 29, 2019 21:53If you ask African migrants in Europe who came across the Mediterranean Sea in a boat if they would make the journey again, most of them would say “yes.” Many of them had been in vans and trucks that took them across the dangerous Sahara Desert, and many of them had been on board vessels that struggled to get across the choppy waters. They might have seen their fellow migrants die of thirst or of drowning, but none of that halts their conviction that they’d cross the sands and the seas again.
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Turkey to crush Kurdish militants if they don’t leave Syria safe zone: Turkish President
Oct 24, 2019 18:55On Thursday, Erdogan renewed a threat to resume a military offensive in northeast Syria through a televised speech, saying Ankara would implement its plans for another cross-border operation if YPG militants did not withdraw from border areas.
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Lorry of dead bodies unveils Tories’ ugly immigration policy
Oct 23, 2019 16:50Underneath the 39 bodies which were found dead inside a truck container in southeastern England lingers evidence of a grotesque Tory immigration policy.
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What we eat determines our health and future
Oct 23, 2019 13:12It is important for us to change our approaches in terms of the food we produce, process and consume. At the governmental level, countries must expand their agriculture policies beyond staple food production to include investments and research on crops such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes.