Migrants Lament as Deal With Turkey Closes Door to Europe
Photo Migrants wait under the rain in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 12, 2016. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times IZMIR, Turkey — Smoking cigarettes and huddling against the midnight chill, a group of Syrian men sat outside a mosque waiting for a smuggler’s call. It was their last chance, they said, to reach Europe.It was late Friday, hours after they watched news reports from cafes and hotel lobbies that the Europe Union and Turkey had struck a deal that ..>> view originalFlydubai plane crashes in Russia; 62 aboard reported dead
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By Michael Weissenstein | AP March 19 at 5:02 PM HAVANA — In a direct appeal to the Cuban people’s sense of humor, the White House has released a video of President Barack Obama joking with the country’s most famous comedian a day before the president makes a historic trip to the island. Luis Silva plays Panfilo, an elderly character on a wildly popular show that often uses biting humor to comment on social reality and lampoon the failings of Cuba’s government and centrally planned economy. ..>> view originalUS Marine in Iraq becomes the second combat death in war against Islamic State
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An officer secures the bombing site in central Istanbul. (Murad Sezer/Reuters) BEIRUT — A suicide bombing at a popular shopping area in Istanbul that killed at least five people, including two Americans, and wounded dozens more Saturday may be tied to the Islamic State, according to media reports. The blast targeted Istiklal Street, a major thoroughfare lined with international shopping outlets and restaurants that bustles with foreign tourists on weekends. Five people had been confirmed..>> view originalViolence in Israel puts a damper on Easter tourism season
Michele Chabin, Special for USA TODAY 1:19 p.m. EDT March 19, 2016People shop on a crowded day at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.(Photo: Abir Sultan, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY )JERUSALEM — Nearly six months of non-stop Palestinian attacks are dampening prospects for an Easter tourism season that normally provides this historic region a big economic boost.Israel’s $10-billion-a-year tourism industry never fully recovered from the war with Hamas in the summer of 2014. Now the..>> view original
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