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News  /  Europe Europe’s Migrant Challenge Expected to Continue Into 2016 Print Comment (2) Share: ▶ 0:00:00 ⇱       ▶ RELATED ARTICLES One Million Migrants and Refugees Enter Europe This Year Luis Ramirez December 30, 2015 4:30 PM LONDON— Europe in 2015 faced its most severe migration crisis in centuries as an estimated one million people – mostly Muslims – fled war in Syria and poverty in other countries of the Middle East and Africa and made the complicated trek across Turkey and eastern Europe to reach Western Europe. With another three million migrants and refugees expected in 2016, the mass migration has raised questions about the future of Europe and the ability of its countries to absorb the migrants both culturally and economically. Migrants had been pouring into Europe for months, but images of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach in Sep...

News  /  Middle East Iran Warns Against New 'Illegal' US Sanctions Print Comment (1) Share: FILE - Guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley participates in a replenishment-at-sea with fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall in the Gulf of Oman. Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier RELATED ARTICLES Officials: US Preparing New Sanctions for Iran Missile Program   Iran's Nuclear Compliance Draws Mixed Opinions Chris Hannas December 31, 2015 5:37 AM Iran said Thursday it would respond to any "interventionist" measures by the United States, after U.S. officials said the Treasury Department was preparing new sanctions connected to Iran's ballistic missile program. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari called the planned sanctions "unilateral, arbitrary and illegal." The Wall Street Journal , which first...

WEATHER Can we blame this crazy weather on El Niño? Floods in South America and England, spring temperatures in Europe, tornadoes in the US - of all these weather phenomena, only the ones in the southern hemisphere can be linked to El Niño. Parts of England are  flooded  after torrential rainfall, and also in southern America more than 150.000 people had to leave their homes after floods. In the US, a  tornado  claims 43 lives, and in Ethiopia people are starving as a result of a draught. At the same time, we are expecting  unusually mild temperatures  at the North Pole - just above the freezing point. This is about 40 degrees warmer than usual at this time of year and - at least during the day - almost as warm as southern California in the middle of the night. There, temperatures dropped to as low as 4 degrees Celsius (the low 50s Fahrenheit) just recently. Looks like the weather has gone nuts? Be that as it may, when looking for a scapegoa...

GLOBAL CONFLICTS Opinion: 2015 was a horrible year The headlines that have dominated the news this year have made for unhappy reading. There's been no historic moment of change, but the world has definitely become messier, says DW's editor-in-chief Alexander Kudascheff. 2015 was a horrible and depressing year. It was a year of crises, of war and of catastrophes. It was a year of things starting to unravel, of shows of force and of monstrous terror from Paris to Beirut to Bamako. And it was a year of change, as well as political and societal upheaval. But has it marked the end of an era? A historic turning point? In 1989, the American historian Francis Fukuyama predicted that history was ending: that humanity had reached the endpoint of its ecological evolution. He was certain, after the implosion of the main communist nations, that the liberal Western view of democracy would triumph. A quarter of a century later, we can confidently say that this was the wrong pr...

ΡΩΣΙΑ - ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ Μόσχα προς Άγκυρα: Συλλάβετε τον άνθρωπο που δολοφόνησε τον πιλότο του ρωσικού Sukhoi H ρωσική κυβέρνηση απαίτησε σήμερα από την Άγκυρα να συλλάβει έναν Τούρκο τον οποίο κατηγορεί ότι σκότωσε τον Ρώσο πιλότο, ο οποίος χρησιμοποίησε το εκτινασσόμενο κάθισμά του όταν το αεροσκάφος του καταρρίφθηκε από τουρκικά F-16 στον εναέριο χώρο πάνω από τη συριακή μεθόριο την 24η Νοεμβρίου. «Απαιτούμε να ληφθούν άμεσα μέτρα εκ μέρους των τουρκικών αρχών για τη σύλληψη του Αλπασλάν Τσελίκ, όπως επίσης και των συνεργών του και την προσαγωγή τους ενώπιον της δικαιοσύνης με την κατηγορία της δολοφονίας του Ρώσου πιλότου» δήλωσε η εκπρόσωπος Τύπου του ρωσικού υπουργείου Εξωτερικών Μαρία Ζαχάροβα. Σε συνέντευξη που παραχώρησε στην τουρκική εφημερίδα Hürriyet, η οποία δημοσιεύτηκε την Κυριακή, ο Αλπασλάν Τσελίκ, υπήκοος Τουρκίας που πολεμά μαζί με τους Τουρκμένους αντάρτες στη Συρία, επισήμανε ότι «η συνείδησή του δε μπορεί να βαρύνεται από (την ανάμνηση) κάποιου που έριχνε βόμ...

MIDDLE EAST Syrian rebel leader Zahran Allouch reportedly killed in airstrike The head of the most powerful insurgent group in the eastern suburbs of Syrian capital Damascus was killed in an air raid targeting the group's headquarters. Both rebel sources and the Syrian army confirmed the event. The death of Zahran Allouch, head of the Jaysh al-Islam rebel (Army of Islam) movement, was confirmed on Twitter by Syria's opposition National Coalition, who posted a message of condolence. Jaysh al-Islam is the largest rebel faction in the capital and is said to have between 15,000 to 20,000 fighters. It is also one of the rebel groups that will be negotiating with Assad's government in Geneva next year. It remained unclear which country had ordered the air strikes. The Syrian Army took credit for the attack and said in a statement that its planes had carried out a "special aerial operation" in eastern Ghotta, which led to the killing of "terrorist Zahr...

Το Τραίνο της Μνήμης Η Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης μαζί με τη γερμανική ΜΚΟ «Το Τραίνο της Μνήμης» διεκδικούν την καταβολή αποζημιώσεων σε επιζώντες του Ολοκαυτώματος και απογόνους τους από τους Γερμανικούς Σιδηροδρόμους. Η Γαλλική κρατική εταιρεία Σιδηροδρόμων Société des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), το Δεκέμβριο του 2014 απέδωσε αποζημιώσεις στους επιζώντες και στους απογόνους όσων μεταφέρθηκαν από τη συγκεκριμένη εταιρεία στα γερμανικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης. Παίρνοντας αυτό ως παράδειγμα οι Εβραίοι της Θεσσαλονίκης διεκδικούν το δίκιο τους. Να τους επιστραφεί το αντίτιμο των εισιτηρίων που αναγκάστηκαν να πληρώσουν οι ίδιοι για να μεταφερθούν στα κρεματόρια του Άουσβιτς. Στις 11 Ιουλίου του 1942, κατά τραγική ειρωνεία στην Πλατεία Ελευθερίας, χιλιάδες Εβραίοι της Θεσσαλονίκης συγκεντρώθηκαν από τους ναζί και οδηγήθηκαν σε καταναγκαστικά έργα, έπειτα από βασανιστήρια. Από τον Μάρτιο έως τον Αύγουστο του 1943, σύμφωνα με υπολογισμούς, περίπου 48.000 Εβραίους με...

POLITICS Angela Merkel calls for solidarity in New Year speech Germany's chancellor calls the influx and integration of refugees "tomorrow's opportunity" in her New Year's address. The euro crisis fails to garner a mention, but next year's European Football Championship does. With an eye to the refugee crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel explains that one thing more than any will be important for Germany in 2016: "Our solidarity." In her New Year's address she says, "It is important that we not let ourselves be divided. Not into generations, not into social groups, and not into those that are already here and those that are new citizens." People should not follow "those with coldness, or even hate in their hearts, and who claim the right to be called German for themselves alone and seek to marginalize others," demands Merkel, without mentioning Pegida, the organization which roughly translates to "Patriotic E...

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