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Majority of European Parliament votes to freeze EU membership talks with Turkey

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 Deutsche Welle Turkey

The majority of lawmakers in the European Parliament on Thursday voted to halt membership talks with Turkey after Ankara’s post-coup

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Election campaign heats up in Republic of Macedonia

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Macedonia’s VMRO-DPMNE, led by former PM Nikola Gruevski, is accusing the opposition leader, Zoran Zaev of planning to federalise the

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New missiles in Kaliningrad aimed at hindering Nato ships’ access – Lithuanian defence minister

November 24, 2016 The Baltic Times Lithuania

The deployment by Russia of new missiles in its Baltic Sea enclave Kaliningrad is intended to limit NATO allies’ ships’

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European Parliament urges action against Russian ‘hostile propaganda’

November 24, 2016 Deutsche Welle Russia

The European Parliament on Wednesday warned of “hostile” Russian propaganda and support for anti-EU forces and urged Brussels to take

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Turkey looks east as EU mulls suspending its membership bid

November 24, 2016 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkey’s decades-long bid to join the European Union hangs increasingly in the balance as criticism grows over an ongoing crackdown

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Ukrainian billionaire Pinchuk gave Trump $150 000 for 19-minute video call in 2015

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

For the better part of a year, US President-elect Donald Trump’s slammed his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for taking large

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‘Washington Group’ to informally discuss Greek debt behind closed doors

November 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, IMF

According to a report in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Finance Ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands

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Europe 

US issues Europe travel alert for holiday season

November 23, 2016 VOANews

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for Americans regarding “a heightened risk of terrorist attacks throughout Europe,

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New Canadian movie sheds light on horror of Holodomor famine

November 20, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

“Bitter Harvest,” the first major movie about the genocidal artificial famine engineered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s,

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