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‘EU trying to avoid, externalize refugee issue’

Rising anti-refugee sentiments in Europe led EU to try to use 3rd countries, like Turkey, as buffer zones, says academic The EU is working to externalize the problem of refugees by keeping them in third countries like Turkey and promising funding, said a speaker at the Turkish-based TRT World Forum Digital Debates on Friday. “Refugee

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UN says 125 Europe-bound children rescued off Libyan coast

Last week, 130 migrants bound for Europe went missing and are feared to be dead after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean (AFP) The majority of the children were sent to detention centres in Libya and the UN is calling for their release A total of 125 children were intercepted at sea this week by

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Crush at Israeli religious festival kills 44

Medics and rescue workers attend to the Lag B’Omer event in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, at Mount Meron, Israel April 30, 2021 REUTERS/ Stringer By Reuters, Dan Williams

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Dark web drug dealers paid more than £3.5m in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in massive cocaine operation

Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame (Image: Metropolitan Police) By Carl Jackson Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame used social media sites called ‘LetsWork’ and ‘TheOnlyLw’ to wholesale cocaine from Boliva, Peru and Columbia ‘Greedy’ drug dealers who sold huge amounts of South American cocaine over the dark web were paid more than £3.5million in Bitcoin and

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China says US increasing military activity directed at it

File – In this April 23, 2019, file photo, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy aircraft carrier Liaoning participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China’s PLA Navy in the sea near Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. China says it is holding naval drills involving the

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Saudi Arabia decides to close 8 Turkish schools with 2,256 students by end of 2021

Kingdom decides to terminate activities of schools in capital Riyadh, other provinces at end of 2020-2021 academic year The Saudi Arabian administration has decided to terminate the activities of 8 Turkish schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education operating in the capital Riyadh and other provinces at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year,

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US Navy fires warning shots in new tense encounter with Iran

File – This April 14, 2020, file photo provided by the U.S. Army shows the USS Firebolt in Manama, Bahrain. The Firebolt fired warning shots when vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a recent patrol in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Spc. Cody Rich/U.S. Army

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Saudi crown prince: Only few differences with Biden administration

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a graduation ceremony for the 95th batch of cadets from the King Faisal Air Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 23, 2018. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in remarks aired on Tuesday that the United States

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Iran, US warships in first tense Mideast encounter in a year

In an April 2, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Navy, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel cut in front of the U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Monomoy in the Persian Gulf. American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid

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Turkish leader blasts Biden’s ‘unfounded’ remarks on 1915 events

Turkey’s president on Monday denounced US President Joe Biden’s “unfounded” statement on the events of 1915, saying it is “contrary to the facts. Addressing a news conference following a three-hour Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “US President Biden made a statement that is unfounded, unjust and contrary to the facts

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