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EU-Turkey deal fails to stem refugee flight to Greece
50 or so refugees and migrants were among the first to arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on day one after an EU deal with Turkey designed to close the route by which a million people crossed the Aegean Sea to Greece in 2015.
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Brussels raids: Paris attacks prime suspect Abdesalam arrested
The "place where you can disappear", the "Jihadist airbase" -- the crowded Brussels borough of Molenbeek, finally proved not big enough for Europe's most wanted man: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam.
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Pope to visit Armenia after angering Turkey with genocide remark
Pope Francis plans to visit Armenia in June, the Vatican said on Friday, a trip that could upset Turkey if he again describes the century-old massacres of Christian Armenians as a genocide.
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Russia plan crash: All 62 passengers killed
All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
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Chancellor is running out of options for budget surplus plan
Chancellor George Osborne is running out of room to keep his centrepiece budget surplus plan on track, economists said on Thursday.
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US declares ISIS atrocities against Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims 'genocide'
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday declared that violence by Islamic State against religious minorities was genocide, saying the United States would do everything it could to hold the militant group accountable.
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Kurdish militant group TAK claims Ankara bombing that killed 37
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) militant group on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara that killed 37 people, and vowed to continue its strikes against security forces.
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Syria conflict: Putin announces Russian forces are withdrawing
President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war.
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Al Qaeda gunmen kill 16 in Ivory Coast beach attack
Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Ivory Coast on Sunday.
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Car bomb in Turkey kills at least 34
A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month.
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Syria: al-Qaeda seizes bases and weapons from Western-backed group
The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front seized bases and weapons from a Western-backed rebel group in overnight fighting in northwestern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
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Obama to urge Britain to stay in EU in UK visit
US President Barack Obama will come to London in April and urge British voters to back continued membership of the European Union, The Independent on Sunday newspaper reported.