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Schulz at the EU summit: "It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States"

"It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States, and wave the illusion that retreating behind national borders somehow immunises against - often home-grown - terrorists", said the EP President Schulz in his opening...

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Syria: Senior UN official calls for immediate end to use of sexual violence by all sides as weapon of war

Welcoming the Security Council's unanimous adoption of a blueprint for peace in Syria, a senior United Nations official has called on all sides to immediately stop using sexual violence as a tactic in the fighting tearing the country apart.

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EU leaders face calls to bridge divide on migrants

European leaders holding a year-end summit on Thursday were urged to bury their differences over the migration crisis and restore the security of the 28-nation EU's crumbling borders.

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Freeze EU aid to the Burundi government, say MEPs

Growing insecurity, the lack of political moves towards reconciliation and worsening humanitarian conditions in Burundi, a country that tops the Global Hunger Index, are highlighted by MEPs in a resolution voted by a show of hands on Thursday. They...

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