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Europe risks being 'destabilized' by migrant crisis: Hungary PM Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned at the United Nations that Europe will be "destabilized" if the mass flows of migrants and refugees continue unabated.

01 October 2015

State Dept releases latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails The State Department released a new batch of 6,300 pages of emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton when she served as top US diplomat and controversially used a private email account.

01 October 2015

Trump would send home Syrian refugees Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump said that he would send thousands of Syrian refugees back to their home country if he is elected in November.

01 October 2015

Turkish PM at UN calls for refugee 'safe zone' in Syria Turkey's prime minister used his UN General Assembly speech to press demands for a "safe zone" to be created in Syria to protect civilians fleeing barrel bombs and the Islamic State group.

01 October 2015

Western fears that air strikes don't target IS 'unfounded': Russia Russia rejected accusations that Moscow had bombed moderate rebel factions fighting President Bashar al-Assad instead of Islamic State fighters and had hit civilians.

01 October 2015

Kerry: US not against Russian strikes, but Assad must go The United States does not oppose Russian air strikes in Syria if they target the Islamic State group, but Bashar al-Assad must step down.

01 October 2015

Putin wins parliament approval for Syria air strikes Russian President Vladimir Putin won permission from parliament to carry out air strikes in Syria.

30 September 2015

Catalan leader slams lawsuit over breakaway vote Catalonia's president Artur Mas accused the Spanish government of suing him because its "pride was hurt" by his bids to let his region vote on independence from Spain.

30 September 2015

Russia to propose draft UN Security Council resolution on 'battling terrorism' Russia will propose a United Nations Security Council resolution on fighting "terrorism", deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

30 September 2015

Obama says Assad must go, revs up coalition against IS US President Barack Obama said that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad must go if the Islamic State group is to be defeated.

30 September 2015

Germany pledges 100 mln euros for refugees Germany committed an additional 100 million euros ($113 million) to UN agencies to improve assistance for refugees in their home regions.

30 September 2015

Hungary PM aims to meet Ban before mooted border closure Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban aims to meet UN chief Ban Ki-moon in New York this week ahead of a possible closure to thousands of migrants of the EU country's border with Croatia.

29 September 2015

'Cheers' but no cheer: Obama and Putin's grim toast Rarely can a toast at a UN luncheon have been so chilly. Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin went through the motions, clinking glasses and making eye contact, but no more.

29 September 2015

France cautiously backs Putin call for Syria coalition France gave cautious backing at the United Nations to a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin for a "broad coalition" to fight the Islamic State group in Syria.

29 September 2015

Trump wants to lower taxes, except for very rich Leading Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said he would eliminate taxes for millions of lower-income Americans.

29 September 2015

India PM makes rock star appearance at Facebook Standing side-by-side with Mark Zuckerberg, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a rock star appearance at Facebook, advocating for the political power of social media.

28 September 2015

Pro-Kremlin party suffers rare defeat in local election Russian President Vladimir Putin's ruling party suffered a rare election defeat when its candidate for governor of the Irkutsk region of Siberia lost to a Communist candidate.

28 September 2015

Separatists win absolute majority of seats in Catalan vote: exit poll Separatists pushing to make Catalonia independent from Spain were on track to win an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in a regional election.

28 September 2015

Britain's Cameron calls for talks on Syria transition British Prime Minister David Cameron called for discussions on how to bring about political transition in Syria as he prepares to meet world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

28 September 2015

Brazil's Rousseff pledges 37% cut in greenhouse gas emissions Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday promised big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

28 September 2015

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