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Refugees face long cold and wet night at crowded Balkan border crossings

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Under the glare of a border light, some 2,000 refugees and migrants at Berkasovo, wait on the Serbian side of the border with Croatia.

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Central African Republic: Security Council condemns violence, reiterates decision to apply sanctions

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The St Michel church and adjacent priest’s house were torched during protests in Bangui sparked by the killing of a Muslim man.

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‘We must turn back from this dangerous abyss,’ Ban says in Israel on first day of visit to crisis-torn region

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a press briefing in Jerusalem.

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UNHCR provides shelter to Iraqis uprooted by conflict in Anbar

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Children displaced from Central Iraq in Markasi camp, Ameriyat Al Fallujah, Anbar province.

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Number of sea arrivals in Greece hits half million mark

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Mother and children waiting with other refugees to enter Vinojug reception centre at Gevgelija.

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Iran: how the nuclear agreement could create opportunities

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(From left) Dr Rouzbeh Parsi and Ellie Geranmayeh during the hearing at the Parliament

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Common security challenges across Mediterranean require stronger co-operation mechanisms, say participants at 2015 OSCE Mediterranean conference

Challenges affecting the Mediterranean region require co-operative solutions as they cannot be effectively tackled by any single country alone, assess participants at the 2015 Annual OSCE Mediterranean Conference in Jordan.

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Work together to fight online radicalisation and extremism, MEPs urge EU states

Illegal content that spreads violent extremism via the internet should be deleted promptly, but in line with fundamental rights and freedom of expression, say Civil Liberties Committee MEPs in a non-binding resolution voted on Monday. They also recommend ways to discourage recruitment of EU citizens as “foreign fighters” and call on EU member states to step up judicial cooperation to this end.

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Rachida Dati on the radicalisation of EU citizens: "A truly European response is needed"

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Interview with Rachida Dati

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EP this week: preventing radicalisation, Iran deal, Ukraine, EU banking sector

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MEPs have another busy week ahead of them.