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The current draft would allow for further discussion about how and where to relocate refugees ahead of another ministerial meeting scheduled for Oct. 8. A majority of the bloc’s interior ministers already agreed in principle on Monday to the redistribution, but they could...

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that only between 100 and 120 Syrian fighters were in training.

In Macedonia, more teams of volunteers from the United Nations and government special police forces guide them onto buses or onto rundown electric trains or cramped taxis headed for the country’s northern border with Serbia.

But the collapse in oil prices and global fiscal turmoil raised doubts about those forecasts.

The child was on board a boat full of refugees trying to make it to safety in Europe.

Senate Democrats have secured 42 votes in support of the deal, one more than needed to block a disapproval vote in the Senate.

Let {us| me} turn the outpouring of public support for refugees into a strong and coordinated effort to tackle the problem at source, with Muslim nations central to any anti-IS coalition. Given that so many of Syria’s 20 million people have been driven from their homes, who...

While he told a Toronto audience this morning that it’s time to be less partisan, he laid the responsibility at Harper’s door.

But Gul also exemplified the oscillations within the Pakistani military establishment between anti-India paranoia and the desire to stabilize relations with Delhi.

“European countries, which turned the Mediterranean Sea – the cradle of ancient civilisations – into a migrant cemetery are party to the crime that takes place when each refugee loses their life”, he said in a speech.

“Basically we are acting according to the rules”, Pangl said.

China hosted a spectacular display of its armed forces Thursday at the parade, which celebrated the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, a war that cost tens of millions of Chinese lives.

Flaunting its strength under such circumstances will naturally intimidate neighboring countries, and China appears aware of that – which is why at the ceremony, Xi pledged to cut military personnel by 300,000 troops and repeatedly mentioned the importance of “peace”.

Against the backdrop of the largest military parade in modern China, President Xi Jinping announced a troop reduction of 300,000 and pledged peace, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane.

It manifests itself not just through donations, but also through a number of private initiatives aimed at providing support to people when they arrive in Germany in a direct and down-to-earth manner.