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  • EU to 'scale up' deportation of refugees to Turkey

    The European Union's top migration official says deportations will intensify after the first group of refugees were returned to Turkey from Greece this week. EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a news conference on Wednesday the expulsions were just beginning and the numbers were still "very low". "But it's better to.. More

  • Turkey to readmit more migrants from Greece as EU deal faces protests

    Turkey is ready to take in another 200 migrants deported from the Greek islands this week, a senior government official said, as it presses ahead with a disputed EU deal aimed at shutting down the main route for illegal migration into Europe. A first group of 202 migrants, mostly Pakistani and Afghan, were shipped back to Turkey on Monday under an.. More

  • Scores dead as flash floods ravage northwest Pakistan

    At least 63 people have been killed and 34 injured after flash floods ravaged parts of northwest Pakistan, including the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Homes in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province faced extensive damage after rain started on Saturday causing flash floods. "There are 30 people stranded by a landslide in the Kohistan Valley where we.. More

  • Yemeni parties welcome cabinet reshuffle

    A group of Yemeni political parties, organizations and forces has welcomed a cabinet reshuffle, offering its "utmost support" to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The 10-member group said in a statement on Monday it "completely supports" the appointments of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar as the new vice president, and Ahmed Obeid bin.. More

  • Israel tears down seven Palestinian homes in 24 hours

    Seven Palestinian homes have been demolished in the past 24 hours across the Occupied West Bank - a move dubbed as "collective punishment" by Palestinian leaders. The list of demolished structures includes three houses in Qabatiya town south of Jenin belonging to families of a trio gunned down in February after they killed an Israeli soldier. Over.. More

  • Yemen army, allies capture Houthi position in Al-Jawf

    Pro-government forces and the national army have recaptured a military site held by Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen’s Al-Jawf province near the Saudi border, a pro-government source told Anadolu Agency on Sunday. Speaking by phone, the source said that the Yemeni army and pro-government "popular resistance forces" had managed to seize control.. More

  • Deportation of refugees from Greece to Turkey begins

    Under tight security, police on the Greek island of Lesbos have put people on boats bound for Turkey, the first to be deported under a European Union plan to stem the flow of refugees to Europe. Witnesses reported seeing two boats set sail after police boarded people who had arrived on buses. "All of the migrants returned are from Pakistan except.. More

  • Nusra Front, Syrian opposition attack regime forces near Aleppo, gain ground

    Syrian opposition forces and Nusra Front have mounted an offensive against Syrian regime forces and on Saturday took a strategic hill south of Aleppo from regime control, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the offensive began on Friday, and Syrian regime and allied forces were fighting to take back control.. More

  • Uncertainty reigns a day before migrants are to be returned to Turkey

    Less than 24 hours before Greece is due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, little sign of preparation is evident on Lesbos, the island through which hundreds of thousands of people have poured into Europe since last year. More than 5,600 migrants have been registered on Greek islands since March 20, the date on which the agreement takes effect... More

  • Turkish leader Erdogan says Islamophobia on rise in US

    Islamophobia is on the rise in the United States and US presidential candidates have targeted Muslims during the election campaign, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said during a visit to the country. Speaking on Saturday at the opening of a Turkish-sponsored mosque and religious complex outside Washington, Erdogan also said recent attacks in Brussels.. More

  • UN outrage over Israeli army execution of Palestinian

    The United Nations expressed outrage on Wednesday over the killing of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier who was caught on camera saying the evidence signaled a clear case of an extrajudicial execution. Anger grew in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after Israel's military court called the video evidence against the soldier "inconclusive",.. More

  • EgyptAir hijack ends with passengers freed

    An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21 foreigners and 15 crew, were on board the Airbus 320, Egypt's Civil Aviation.. More

  • U.N. chief urges all countries to show solidarity with Syrian refugees

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries on Wednesday to show solidarity and accept nearly half a million Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next three years. Ban, kicking off a ministerial conference hosted by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva, said: "This demands an exponential increase in global solidarity." The.. More

  • Refugees face uncertain future on Greek island

    Since the EU-Turkey refugee deal came into effect more than a week ago, thousands who have landed on the Greek island of Lesbos have been incarcerated in camps. At Moira, a former military barracks that now acts as an EU “hotspot” for screening refugees, those who have arrived in Greece since March 20 are now held behind concrete walls.. More

  • Belgium frees charged suspect in blow to bombing investigation

    Belgian prosecutors on Monday released a man they had charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him. The man, named only as Faycal C., had been accused of taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder after being detained.. More