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Support for Greece as EU gives Turkey a month to de-escalate tension
… on Turkey following the informal EU foreign ministers’ … will continue ahead of the European Council on September 24. VIRAL ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ … its relations with the EU, while EU High Representative for … an understanding. Effectively, the EU has given Turkey a …
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European Union sets stage for sanctions on Turkey
The European Union is preparing to sanction … Josep Borell on Friday said EU was expressing solidarity with Greece … clear and determined in defending European Union’s interests and solidarity with … are essential but that the EU is focusing on supporting Greek …
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Merkel on Greece-Turkey East Med Row: All EU Countries Have Obligation to Support Athens
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated that all European Union countries have an obligation to support Greece in its row with Turkey over Cyprus’ offshore energy resources. The chancellor added that she had already discussed the dispute between Athens and Ankara “intensely” with French President Emmanuel Macron. Merkel also confirmed that Germany is “committed to” preventing…
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COVID-19 reinfection seems not to be a ‘regular event’, says UN health agency
There is likely only a slim possibility of people being reinfected with COVID-19, the UN health agency said on Tuesday, following reports in Hong Kong that a man had contracted new coronavirus for a second time after an interval of more than four months.
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Charles Michel invites members of EC for video conference on 19 August 2020
Invitation letter by President Charles Michel to the members of the European Council ahead of their video conference on 19 August 2020 Our foreign ministers discussed developments in Belarus and the Eastern Mediterranean last Friday. Since then, the situation in Belarus has continued to evolve, and I have therefore decided to call a video conference…
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Spread of hepatitis B in children under five, lowest in decades: WHO
The global prevalence of potentially-deadly hepatitis B in children under age five, dropped to under one per cent in 2019 – down from five per cent in the pre-vaccine decades between the 1980s and early 2000s, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday.
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Austrian MEP Names Hungary and Poland as ‘Brexit Suspects’ Inside European Union
… who sow divisions within the European Union (EU). Othmar Karas, a member … forthright speech to the European Parliament on Friday in which … of the door, several EU countries have significant Eurosceptic … and values of the European Union” by demanding Britain …
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Opinion: EU migration pact has already failed
… immigration forces in Eastern and Central Europe were always going to … arriving in the EU each year, the European Commission said the … its fourth year and Islamic State making gains in … on foot from Greece towards western Europe via the “Balkan …
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An active faith may hold the key to a longer, healthier life
An active faith may hold the key to a longer, healthier life Khadija, an older Algerian woman, at first seems not to understand the question when asked about the role her religion and beliefs play in her well-being. By *Elisa Di Benedetto and *Larbi Megari She instinctively relied on Islam as a young woman living…