Syria is a source of radicalization for thousands of Europeans who are involved in the conflict. The shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, allegedly committed by a French jihadi who had fought in the Syrian war, has alarmed Europe, struggling to contain this phenomenon for two years. Interior ministers from seven EU countries, including […]
Jun 5 2014 | Posted in
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Europe moves away from the scene of interruptions in the supply of Russian gas this summer. Russia and Ukraine agreed on Monday a joint framework to settle the debts of millions and set a price for future deliveries. The European Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger, called the pact to guarantee deliveries unchanged at least a […]
Jun 4 2014 | Posted in
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Fighting in the Lugansk area, very close to the Russian border, began at dawn when the insurgents, who do not recognize the central government launched an attack with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and bazocas against a post of the Ukrainian border guard. In the version of the Border Service of Ukraine, the attackers killed five while […]
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President Barack Obama is in Warsaw as an initiative to strengthen military aid to the countries of the eastern flank of NATO after concerns about the actions of Vladimir Putin in Russia – Ukraine border with Poland – country and annexation of Ukrainian region of Crimea. “I have come here,” Obama said in a press […]
Jun 4 2014 | Posted in
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French police have arrested four people Monday in an operation against the jihadi networks in the Paris region and in the south of the country, said Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve told Europe 1 radio. The operation was carried out a day after the arrest was announced Friday in Marseille from suspected of killing three people […]
Jun 3 2014 | Posted in
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French police arrested Friday in Marseille a man suspected of killing four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels (Belgium) on May 24. The arrested, a French citizen born 29 Roubaix (North), identified as Mehdi Nemmouche, carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a loaded revolver that fits the characteristics of the material used in the attack […]
Jun 2 2014 | Posted in
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Russia has withdrawn most of its troops from the border with Ukraine, but seven battalions, – that is, thousands of soldiers are deployed, as announced by Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense U.S. this Friday. From Singapore, where he is to attend a conference on international security, Hagel defined withdrawal as a promising development, but has […]
May 31 2014 | Posted in
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The EU executive has today rejected the proposed citizens’ legislative initiative that called for the protection of human beings from conception to Brussels demanding to stop funding research involving the destruction of embryos and to cease development assistance programs in which abortion is supported. The initiators ‘One of Us’ had collected two million signatures in […]
May 30 2014 | Posted in
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French police have evicted on Wednesday three camps that housed hundreds of immigrants in the port city of Calais in northern France, an eviction that comes days after the far-right National Front formation was the most voted party in elections to European Parliament in the neighboring country. The evictions, which have been denounced by organizations […]
May 30 2014 | Posted in
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The Ukrainian Government attack against rebels in the east of the country, supporters of the same division, has taken strength Thursday on City Slaviansk. After the bloody battle for the capital of the region, Donetsk Airport Kiev troops have returned fire on Slaviansk and Kramatorsk with encouraging results for government forces. At least 13 soldiers […]
May 29 2014 | Posted in
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King Philippe of Belgium to be avoided by all means as an institutional paralysis that kept the country 541 days without a government four years ago. To accelerate some complex procedures that are anticipated, the monarch has already ordered the leader of the Flemish nationalist party, Bart de Wever, to enter into discussions to form […]
May 29 2014 | Posted in
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The leaders of the two major anti-European parties, the French Marine Le Pen, far-right National Front and the British – Nigel Farage – UKIP – populist both with 24 seats, melee for the support of Europhobes and Eurosceptic parties that make up the new European Parliament in order to achieve own group. Both Gallic nationalist […]
May 29 2014 | Posted in
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