Agreement signed for Baltic–Poland gas pipeline
The Governments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the European Commission, have reached an agreement that will allow the construction
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Europe’s migrant crisis: European Parliament approves extra 401M euro funding to manage response
A further 401.3 million euro in European Union funding to manage the refugee crisis was endorsed by the European Parliament
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Erdogan seizes on Ankara bombing errors
Three senior Turkish security officials have been suspended following the nation’s deadliest terrorist attack Saturday in the capital, Ankara. Their
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Ukraine’s October local elections highlight battle under way to fill eastern Ukraine power vacuum
The competition is on for the October 25 local elections in the remaining eastern Ukraine power hubs of Dnipropetrovsk and
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Moscow MH17 presentation seen as sloppy pre-emptive measure against Dutch report
A Russian arms manufacturer treated journalists to a Kafkaesque press conference ahead of the release of the Dutch Safety Board’s
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Poll: Ukrainians unhappy about corruption, incomplete reforms
Ukrainians are unhappy with their current government. In a recent poll conducted in Ukraine, only 7 percent of the respondents
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Dutch report on MH17 crash refutes Russian version
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk 9M38M1 anti-aircraft missile on July 17
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Rocket attack hits Russian embassy in Syria
Insurgents fired rockets at Russia’s Embassy in Damascus Tuesday in what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called an act or
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Europe’s migrant crisis: Mediterranean arrivals near record 600 000 – IOM
Italy registered the arrival of 132 071 migrants from January to the end of September 2015 – a slight drop
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