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“Over the past seven years, this Parliamentary Assembly has dealt with many aspects of economic, political and cultural life. We meet to exchange views, learn from each other and to strengthen our freedom and sovereignty.

The Humanitarian Coordinator in the Central African Republic, Najat Rochdi, welcomes the gradual improvement of the humanitarian situation in Paoua, a northern city that had hosted more than 65,000 displaced persons in December 2017. Fighting between armed groups led to the displacement of almost all residents of the villages located in the northern and eastern areas of the town. The population of Paoua estimated at 40,000 inhabitants more than doubled over a few weeks.

MEPs discussed the consequences and impact of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy breaches on Monday with experts and three Facebook representatives.

A top Myanmar general sanctioned by the European Union for his role in the brutal crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims has been fired.

A high-level delegation from Eritrea is in neighboring Ethiopia for historic talks that could bring an end to one of Africa's longest-running conflicts.

Hungary is at clear risk of a serious breach of EU values and the Council should intervene to prevent it, the Civil Liberties Committee said on Monday.

The EU should ensure that helping migrants for humanitarian reasons is not punishable as a crime Civil Liberties Committee MEPs said on Monday.

A Chadian man waits at the Egyptian border at Sallum, having fled the conflict in Libya, where ongoing instability has been affecting neighboring countries since the fall of Muammar Gadaffi in 2011.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the county's presidential election, giving him a new term as the office of president gains more power.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today warned of a widening gap between the number of refugees in need of resettlement and the places made available by governments around the world.