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Three-year-old Khalesa and her mother in northern Afghanistan.

MEPs have another busy week ahead of them

Operation Inherent Resolve

Nigerian youngster Paul, who was abducted by Boko Haram militants at age 14, stands against a wall.

EU-Turkey cooperation on migration should be uncoupled from the EU accession negotiating process, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. MEP praise Turkey for hosting the largest refugee population in the world, and note that it remains a "key strategic partner for the EU" but nonetheless call for progress on rule of law and fundamental values and "a structured and more frequent political dialogue on key thematic issues".

Key political and administrative reforms needed in Albania are progressing, but have yet to reach a stage at which EU accession negotiations could start, say MEPs in Thursday's resolution. In a separate resolution, they welcomed Bosnia & Herzegovina’s EU membership application.

A boy in the Bedouin refugee community of Um al Khayr in the South Hebron Hills where large scale home demolitions by Israeli authorities took place.

Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura arrives for a press conference on the Intra-Syrian Geneva Talks.

Parliament gave its green light for €100 million in EU emergency aid for refugees within the EU and €2 million to hire new staff for the EU law enforcement agency EUROPOL’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), in a vote on Wednesday. Given the urgency of these measures, MEPs fast-tracked their approval of the funds, in the first draft amending budget of 2016. The procedure was completed in just over a month.