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Turkey to take in 200 more migrants from Greece today

Turkey / AFP Turkey is to receive around 200 more migrants from Greece on Wednesday under a controversial deal with the EU after taking in a similar number at the start of this week, a Turkish official said. The new wave of around 200 migrants would be shipped from the Greek island of Lesbos into the Turkish harbour town of ...

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Libyans regain hope with new unity govt head in Tripoli

Turkey / afp Residents of Tripoli have started to breathe a little easier since the head of a new unity government came to town promising a way out of Libya’s political and economic crises. Prime minister-designate Fayez Al Sarraj’s arrival last Wednesday came at a time of sandstorms combined with fears of clashes between rival armed groups that have failed ...

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Fantasies over facts

Trumpanomics doesn’t compute. The media keep piling on Donald Trump, because he keeps saying things that are controversial, impractical, undesirable and — in some cases — simply impossible. Into this last category has now tumbled something new: Trump told Washington Post reporters Robert Costa and Bob Woodward that he could eliminate the $19 trillion federal debt over “a period of ...

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