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Gunmen kill more than 120 in wave of attacks across Paris

Gunmen kill more than 120 in wave of attacks across Paris

Nov 14, – Four black-clad gunmen wearing suicide vests and wielding AK-47s stormed into the Bataclan venue in eastern Paris and fired calmly and methodically at hundreds of screaming concert-goers. Gunmen killed more than 120 people in a wave of attacks across Paris, shouting “Allahu akbar” as they massacred scores of diners and concert-goers and […]

November 14, 2015 | By | Reply More
Russia sending 44 panes to evacuate its tourist from Egypt as terror concerns mount after plane crash

Russia sending 44 panes to evacuate its tourist from Egypt as terror concerns mount after plane crash

Nov 07, – Russia will on Saturday send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals from two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said as suspicions grow that a bomb caused last weekend’s plane crash. Thirty empty planes will be sent to Hurghada, and 14 will be sent to Sharm el-Sheikh, the […]

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Two migrant children drown as UN predicts Greece arrival spike

Two migrant children drown as UN predicts Greece arrival spike

Nov 07, – The cold Aegean Sea claimed the lives of two more migrant children early Thursday, sparking protests in Greece as the UN warned another 600,000 people could arrive by February. The Greek coastguard said the children died off the island of Kos hours before Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and European Parliament chief Martin […]

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Tens of thousands march in Moscow as Putin extols patriotism

Tens of thousands march in Moscow as Putin extols patriotism

Nov 05, – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday extolled patriotism as tens of thousands marched through Moscow in the Kremlin-choreographed show of unity amid tensions with the West. Russia marked National Unity Day at a time of growing social and economic problems in the country as well as simmering tensions with the West. Some 85,000 […]

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Bodies of 11 refugees, most of them infants, recovered off Greece

Bodies of 11 refugees, most of them infants, recovered off Greece

Nov 03, – The crisis unfolding on Europe’s southern periphery deepened on Sunday as the Greek coastguard announced that another 11 refugees, most of them infants, had died in their desperate attempt to reach the west – their deaths adding to the ever growing toll at sea. Pitiful images of rescue workers recovering babies from […]

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Six infants among 19 drown as migrant boat capsizes off Greek island

Six infants among 19 drown as migrant boat capsizes off Greek island

Nov 02, – The latest as hundreds of thousands of people seeking safety flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. Greek authorities confirm that the bodies of four more migrants, all men, have been recovered north of the island of Farmakonissi in the eastern Aegean Sea. Four others were rescued […]

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13 children among at least 22 migrants drowned off Greece

13 children among at least 22 migrants drowned off Greece

Nov 01, – At least 22 migrants, including 13 children, drowned overnight Thursday to Friday off the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Rhodes as they made a desperate bid to reach Europe, while another 144 people were rescued, Greek port authorities said. Off Kalymnos, authorities recovered the bodies of 19 migrants on Friday morning, including […]

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Greece says 22 die in migrant boat sinkings in Aegean Sea

Greece says 22 die in migrant boat sinkings in Aegean Sea

Oct 30, – At least 22 people drowned in two new shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea Friday as thousands of Middle Eastern refugees and economic migrants sought to reach the Greek islands in rough seas, while the death toll over the past three days has reached nearly 50. The Merchant Marine Ministry said 19 people […]

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Seven children die after migrant boats sink off Greece

Seven children die after migrant boats sink off Greece

Oct 29, – At least seven children died when boats carrying migrants sank off Greece on Wednesday, as rescue workers battled to save more youngsters on the seashore in the latest desperate scenes in Europe’s refugee crisis. Three adults also died as four vessels went down on the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey and more […]

October 29, 2015 | By | Reply More
105-year-old Afghan woman among migrants who arrived in Croatia

105-year-old Afghan woman among migrants who arrived in Croatia

Oct 27, – The latest in the odyssey of hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing Europe in search of a new life. All times local. Croatian police say that a 105-year-old Afghan woman is among the migrants who have arrived at the country’s main refugee camp near the border with Serbia. Police say the woman […]

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