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Israel has brought in 19 Jews from war-ravaged Yemen in what immigration officials described as the last covert operation to move members of a dwindling Jewish community dating back two millennia. Seventeen people arrived late on Sunday, including a man

Kosovo’s prime minister said on Sunday his brother and some nephews and nieces were among tens of thousands of Kosovars who tried to enter the European Union last year fleeing poverty and unrest in their homeland. More than a million

French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen, who is touring the Canadian province of Quebec, said on Sunday the country’s immigration policy was on the “wrong path,” at an event where one of her bodyguards reportedly struck a protester. The Canadian

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging his client’s admission that he had planned to blow himself up with fellow

LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – They waved, cheered and smiled, elated to have made it to Europe at dawn on Sunday in a packed blue rubber motor boat. The 50 or so refugees and migrants were among the first to arrive

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s Green Party on Saturday called on an Austrian lawmaker to resign after he compared refugees to “Neanderthals who trample under foot the rights of women”. In remarks in parliament this week which he reiterated later in

Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A

LONDON (Reuters) – A senior British cabinet minister resigned on Friday citing concerns about the latest round of cuts to benefits announced earlier this week, in a surprise move that heaps pressure on finance minister George Osborne. Iain Duncan Smith,

PARIS (Reuters) – France has staged a mock chemical weapons attack on a football “fan zone” as it prepares for the Euro 2016 football championships in June, less than a year after Islamist militants killed 130 people in attacks in

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – One of the main suspects in the Paris attacks from last November, Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and caught by police in an operation on Friday afternoon in the Brussels quarter of Molenbeeck, Belgian media reported. One

BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) – The most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks is wounded and holed up in a Brussels shootout, Belgian newspaper DH reported on Friday. A police spokeswoman said an operation was ongoing and could not give

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police found fingerprints of the most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks at the scene of a shootout this week, officials said on Friday, and the public broadcaster said he may have narrowly evaded capture. The

LONDON (Reuters) – Chancellor George Osborne faced the prospect on Friday of a politically damaging and financially costly U-turn as dissent within his ruling Conservative Party grew over his plans to cut disability benefits. Osborne is seen as a contender

LOS ANGELES – The governing board of California’s flagship public university system is to vote next week on a statement condemning anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Jewish bigotry, a proposal sparking sharp faculty debate over the line between free speech

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s major powers will discuss Libya in the margins of an EU summit on Friday, with leaders expected to focus on efforts to end the political chaos and conflict in the country and rising migrant flows. The

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Geert Wilders, the right-wing politician who was acquitted five years ago of making anti-Islam remarks, goes on trial again Friday for allegedly inciting hatred against the Dutch Moroccan minority. The case comes as Wilders and other populist

Iran will likely escape new United Nations sanctions, though the U.N. Security Council could issue a public reprimand for recent launches of what Western officials described as ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, diplomats said. Council diplomats said

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday he was confident that EU leaders and Turkey would reach an agreement during a two-day summit on a plan to stem the flow of migrants into Europe. “I’m pretty

Russian President Vladimir Putin told visiting President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday he had agreed to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon to discuss the security situation in the Middle East. The two leaders met in Moscow and an Israeli official,

(Reuters) – European Council President Donald Tusk has stressed in a note to EU leaders that a planned deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants to Greek islands will be a “temporary and extraordinary measure”. The note, seen

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday a draft European Union deal withTurkey would be decisive to easing Europe’s migrant crisis but made clear the bloc would not compromise democratic principles to win over Ankara. Speaking on the

PARIS (Reuters) – French anti-terrorism police arrested a small group with Islamist militant ties on Wednesday, suspecting one of them they may have been planning an attack in Paris, France’s interior minister said. “We have information about one person that

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will ask Russia on Wednesday to ensure that its partial pullout from Syria does not embolden Iranian and Hezbollah forces there, an Israeli official said. Rivlin is in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose

(Reuters) – The European Union should grant Turkish citizens visa-free access if Turkey meets a “critical mass” of legal conditions, the EU Commission will say on Wednesday, offering concessions to Ankara in the hope of sealing a deal on sending

A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding down of Moscow’s military intervention in Syria’s civil war, but a top Israeli lawmaker said the ramifications could not yet be

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court on Tuesday to accuse the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment, in a case that is raising questions about how to deal with a man who killed 77 people in 2011. The militant

Israel said it was struggling to “understand the logic” of a French peace initiative favored by the Palestinians after Israeli foreign ministry officials met with a French envoy in Jerusalem on Monday. France is lobbying for an international peace conference

President Vladimir Putin said on Monday “the main part” of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, and instructed his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed in Geneva on ending the five-year

(Reuters) – French authorities expect to finish clearing half of a migrant shanty town nicknamed the “Jungle” outside the northern port of Calais within days, a spokesman for the region said on Monday. Thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty

(Reuters) – EU officials are racing to overcome legal concerns on human rights and tensions between Turkey and Cyprus in order to complete a deal they hope can stem the migrant crisis when leaders meet later this week. At a summit

IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – More than 1,000 migrants streamed out of a camp near the northern Greek border on Monday to try to find a way around a border fence blocking their way into Macedonia, Reuters witnesses said. A large

(Reuters) – There is no question that Germany has benefited from the closure of the Balkan migrant route north into Europe, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, though she vowed to press ahead with her quest for a Europe-wide solution

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia, which has veto power in the United Nations Security Council, said on Monday Iran should not face new council sanctions over recent ballistic missile tests as the tests did not violate a U.N. resolution. The

Turkish warplanes struck against Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq on Monday after 37 people were killed in an Ankara car bombing that security officials said involved a female fighter of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Sunday’s attack, tearing through

(Reuters) – The cost of managing the migrant crisis in Greece will exceed a previous estimate of 600 million euros (465.74 million pound) as more and more refugees are forced to remain in the country, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis

BERLIN (Reuters) – Critics of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policies called on her to change course after voters in three regional elections punished her conservatives and flocked to a new anti-immigration party that wants German borders closed. Merkel’s Christian