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Refugees try to force their way into Macedonia

November 27, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The situation with refugees on the southern border of Macedonia continues to be tense. Hundreds of refugees from Pakistan, Iran,

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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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New anti-terrorism laws proposed in Slovakia

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Uncontrolled migration is an unprecedented risk for Slovakia and the entire EU, according to Prime Minister Robert Fico, and his government

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South-eastern Europe slow to pick up EU’s right to be forgotten

November 26, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

A year and a half after EU’s top court ruled that search engines must consider requests to remove links to

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Turkey braces for economic repercussions after downing of Russian jet

November 26, 2015 Dorian Jones of VOANews Russia, Turkey

The news that a Turkish fighter jet downed a Russian plane Tuesday could signal a further slump in Turkey’s already

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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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Polish government spokesperson: Tusk should be tried over Smolensk air crash

November 26, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland

A Polish government spokeswoman Elzbieta Witek has said that Poland’s former prime minister and current president of the European Council

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Brussels emerges from lockdown

November 25, 2015 Deutsche Welle

A sense of normalcy returned to the Belgian capital on Wednesday as schools resumed lessons and public transportation services in

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Europe 

UN Secretary-General: New European border restrictions on refugees, migrants violate human rights

November 25, 2015November 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Syrian refugees

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned Balkan states that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed

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