Ukraine cancels upcoming local polls near combat zone
Election officials in Ukraine have canceled upcoming local polls in parts of two rebel-controlled regions near the Russian border, after
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Fifth suspect detained over Austria migrant deaths
Police in Hungary announced on Sunday they had arrested a fifth suspect, a Bulgarian citizen, in connection with last week’s
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EU calls for special meeting on migrant crisis
The interior ministers of Britain, France and Germany have called for a special meeting of European Union interior and justice
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Crunch time as migrant crisis worsens
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has convened a session of the national security cabinet by the evening of September 1 2015
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Turkey’s president approves interim cabinet
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved an interim government that will give a pro-Kurdish party cabinet posts for the
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Three arrested in discovery of 71 migrants’ bodies in Austria
Austrian officials say they have arrested three people connected to the discovery of 71 bodies of migrants found in a
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Top judge becomes Greece’s first female prime minister
Vassiliki Thanou, Greece’s top supreme court judge, was sworn in Thursday as a caretaker head of the government, becoming the
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Ukraine buys debt relief, bringing some good news
After five months of talks with private creditors and the unpredictable consequence of a debt moratorium looming, Ukrainian finance minister
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US to deploy heavy military equipment to Poland next year
Bases of heavy military equipment of American armed forced will be built in Poland mid-2016, defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak told
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