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JOINT STATEMENT ON WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2018
June 20, 2018On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, Johannes Hahn, C…
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Britain Ends Royal ‘Boycott’ of Israel
June 20, 2018In 1986, Margaret Thatcher arrived in Israel for the first official visit to the Jewish state by a serving British prime minister. Asked at a news conference why Britain’s queen had never visited, she snapped back, I am here.The Iron Lady’s response go…
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US Man Pleads Guilty of Trying to Aid IS
June 20, 2018A 22-year-old man from New York has pleaded guilty of attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.Parveg Ahmed was arrested after flying from the United States to Saudi Arabia last year and then attempting to cross into Syria. But he was st…
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US Departure From UN Rights Council Leaves Vacuum
June 20, 2018UNITED NATIONS, The Trump administration’s announcement Tuesday that it is withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council has created a vacuum that China may like to fill, threatening the serious work of the body.Although the U.S. criticized the counci…
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Rise in violent conflict shows prevention ‘more necessary than ever’: UN chief
June 19, 2018The UN chief was speaking to journalists in Norway, where he is attending an annual retreat for international conflict mediators and other high-level decision makers.Mr. Guterres gave compelling reasons why the international community must do everythin…
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Destination Europe: Homecoming
June 19, 2018As the EU sets new policies and makes deals with African nations to deter hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking new lives on the continent, what does it mean for sub-Saharan Africans following dreams northwards? From returnees in Sierra Leone …
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Destination Europe: Homecoming
June 19, 2018As the EU sets new policies and makes deals with African nations to deter hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking new lives on the continent, what does it mean for sub-Saharan Africans following dreams northwards? From returnees in Sierra Leone …
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Answer – The import of cultural goods into the EU – E-002036/2018
June 19, 2018The proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the import of cultural goods aims to prevent the import and storage in the EU of cultural goods which have been illicitly exported from a third country, thereby protec…
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