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France extends state of emergency
The French parliament extends the state of emergency to cover Euro 2016 football games.

The French parliament extends the state of emergency to cover Euro 2016 football games.

Boris Johnson is the winner of a poetry contest against the Turkish president.

Five UN peacekeepers have been killed by a bomb and gunfire in northern Mali.

The EU may miss the end-June deadline on visa-free travel for Turkish citizens.

Russia says it will deliver several S-300 divisions to Iran by year-end.

Cairo says the EgyptAir crash was more likely caused by a terror attack than a technical fault.

Turkey’s AKP taps Transport Minister Binali Yildirim as its candidate for the party leadership and the next premier.

NATO foreign ministers were finalizing details of a massive military build-up in Eastern Europe aimed at Russia.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement strongly criticizes the Saudi-backed delegation for withdrawing from peace talks.

A senior European official says Saudi Arabia is providing Nusra Front with chemical weapons.

The Turkish military says one of its helicopters that crashed last week may have been shot down with a ground-to-air projectile.

The French premier calls for “harsh” punishment for those who recently set a police car ablaze in Paris.

An Azeri cargo plane crashes after taking off in southern Afghanistan, killing seven of the nine people on board.

A top Iranian official says Takfiri terrorists will be buried in Syria and Iraq.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the Union expects to renew sanctions against Russia in July.

The US is constructing a missile station at a former Nazi base in northern Poland.

China has called on the US to stop close reconnaissance activities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to take up projects in Russia.