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Dutch EU presidency working on plan to accept 250K refugees

January 28, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

The Netherlands, which holds the European Union presidency, is working on a plan for a core group of member states

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Europe 

Love for Clintons lingers in Kosovo, as country awaits US elections

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 VOANews Kosovo

In Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, the name Clinton is ubiquitous. Bill Clinton Boulevard bisects the city, on which a 10-foot effigy

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Europe 

EU considers renewed border checks

January 27, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said Tuesday that it was not ruling out allowing member

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Bulgaria 

EuropoI: IS planning large-scale attacks in Europe

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016 VOANews

Islamic State group and other militants are likely to carry out large scale attacks in Europe following last year’s attacks

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Europe 

Lagarde: ‘Make or break’ point for Schengen

January 24, 2016January 25, 2016 VOANews IMF, Schengen

The chief of the International Monetary Fund says she believes Europe’s refugee crisis is placing the continent’s cherished Schengen zone

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Europe 

12 migrants drown off Turkish coast

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Twelve migrants lost their lives off the Turkish coast, after a boat taking them to the Greek islands capsized Thursday

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Europe 

Despite cold, record-breaking numbers of refugees arrive in Greece

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece

As a crowded rubber boat approached the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, aid workers waved and gave the roughly

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Europe 

Winter weather raises fears as thousands of refugees head to Europe

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

At the migrant and refugee registration center in Presevo, Serbia, a small girl wearing a pink coat screams with delight

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Europe 

Doctors Without Borders blasts EU migration policies

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has denounced Europe’s migration policy of deterrence in 2015 as a “catastrophic

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