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Shipwrecks 'kill up to 700 migrants'

Migrants wait aboard rescue ship "Aquarius" as they arrive in the port of Cagliari, Sardinia

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

  • 29 May 2016
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Leaders mark Verdun with EU unity plea

The leaders of France and Germany mark the 100th anniversary of the WW1 battle of Verdun in northern France with a call for European unity.

  • 29 May 2016
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'Boateng insult' sparks row in Germany

Comments by a senior leader of Germany's right-wing AfD party about football star Jerome Boateng are widely condemned as racist.

  • 29 May 2016
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  • 29 May 2016
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  • 26 May 2016
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  • 25 May 2016
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