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Brussels rocked by airport, metro explosions

March 22, 2016 Lisa Bryant of VOANews

At least three explosions rocked Brussels Tuesday morning – two at the airport and one at a metro station in

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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry advises citizens to postpone trips to Brussels, Belgium

March 22, 2016March 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry issued an advisory on March 22 to the country’s citizens to postpone trips to Brussels and Belgium

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Bulgaria strongly condemns terrorist attacks at Brussels airport, metro

March 22, 2016March 23, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria strongly condemns the March 22 terrorist attacks at Zaventem Airport in Brussels and the Belgian capital’s metro, President Rossen

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Deadly explosions at Brussels Airport

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 VOANews

Authorities in Belgium say one person has been killed and several more injured in two explosions at the international airport

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Crunch time for refugees on the island of Lesbos

March 21, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

The 1,500 refugees at the Karatepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are nervous. Since the EU struck a

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Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March

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Attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are unacceptable, European human rights bodies say

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

On March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions

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Greece struggles as EU-Turkey refugee deal comes into force

March 20, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Greece has begun moving migrants from its islands to the mainland but will not be able to return refugees to

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EU-Turkey deal leaves refugees stranded in Greece

March 20, 2016 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

The deal struck Friday between the European Union and Turkey to try to end the flow of migrants to Europe,

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