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NATO wants to beef up security along Turkish borders

December 2, 2015 VOANews Nato, Russia, Turkey

NATO foreign ministers are looking at ways to beef up security along Turkey’s border a week after Ankara shot down

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Europe 

NATO ministers expected to endorse membership push by Montenegro

December 1, 2015 VOANews Montenegro, Nato

NATO ministers are expected on Wednesday to endorse efforts by the tiny Balkan state of Montenegro to join the 28-nation

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Turkey: No apology for downing Russian jet

November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 VOANews Russia, Turkey

Turkey’s prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday his country will not apologise for shooting down a Russian fighter jet last

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Turkey returning body of Russian pilot

November 30, 2015 VOANews Russia, Turkey

Turkey said Sunday it is returning the body of a pilot who died after parachuting out of a Russian jet

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Europe 

EU, Turkey reach billion-dollar deal over migration crisis

November 30, 2015 VOANews Turkey

The European Union agreed to a multi-billion-dollar deal with Turkey on migration Sunday to address the flow of migrants that

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Erdogan: No apology for downing of Russian fighter jet

November 26, 2015 VOANews Russia, Turkey

Tensions remained heated between Ankara and Moscow Thursday following Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border

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Europe 

European leaders on refugee route pledge co-operation

November 26, 2015 VOANews Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Slovenia

Southeast and central European leaders have pledged closer cooperation on combating terrorism and dealing with the regional refugee crisis that

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Lavrov: Turkey downing jet ‘planned provocation’ but not going to war

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 VOANews Nato, Russia, Syria, Turkey

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane “looks like a planned provocation,” but

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Russia threatens to cut off gas, coal to Ukraine

November 24, 2015 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Russia threatened Tuesday to cut off natural gas and to halt coal deliveries to Ukraine, worsening a dispute over a

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