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European Council Hosts Migration Summit With Turkey

4:52pm March 07, 2016

European Council President Donald Tusk is predicting parties can reach a consensus for tackling the migration crisis at the summit he's hosting with Turkey on Monday. One part of the plan is to return migrants to Turkey. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Turkish analyst Asli Aydintasbas about what Turkey wants from the EU in exchange for cooperation.

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan play football Feb. 7 in a resort in Halmstad, Sweden, where they are living temporarily. Sweden took in 163,000 migrants in 2015. Resistance to migrants is beginning to grow among some Swedes.

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As Migrants Flow In, Sweden Begins To Rethink Its Open-Door Policy

4:04pm March 07, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Sweden has taken in more asylum seekers per capita than any other European country — including 35,000 unaccompanied minors in 2015. But not everyone in Sweden wants to keep the doors open.

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As EU Closes Doors, Greece Poised To Become Europe's Refugee Camp

3:39pm March 07, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

As asylum-seekers keep pouring into Greece, they are prevented from moving on by border restrictions imposed by other European states. EU leaders are meeting to discuss the migrant issue.

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EU To Turkey: Please Slow The Flow Of Migrants

6:30pm March 06, 2016

At a meeting on Monday, the European Union is trying to convince Turkey to slow the flow of migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan into Europe. What does Turkey want in return?

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Chaos At Greek Border Leaves Thousands Of Migrants Stranded

5:15pm March 06, 2016

by Joanna Kakissis

The thousands of Syrians and Iraqis trapped at the Greek-Macedonian border are unsure when, or even if, they will cross. Exasperated by the chaos there, they're offering their own solutions.

Hans Sick and Freia-Mai Franck have taken in two Afghan teenagers. Franck, who came to Sweden as a German refugee after World War II, says, "I'm remembering what was happening to me when I was a child."

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Fleeing Alone, Some Migrant Kids Find Foster Homes In Sweden

12:43pm March 06, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Sweden took in a record number of asylum seekers last year, among them 35,000 children who arrived without their parents. The luckiest are in foster care with Swedish families.

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French Authorities Demolish Refugee Camp

11:28am March 06, 2016

French police have targeted and fired tear gas on makeshift homes where 3,500 refugees live in Calais. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to aid worker Clare Moseley from Care4Calais about the scene.

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Bernie Sanders Ticks Off Romanians On Twitter Over Internet Speed Tweet

3:20pm March 05, 2016

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Bernie Sanders compared Internet speeds in America to Romania — in a bad way. Romanians responded.

Order 23 of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense, dated March 14, 1944, on transforming Civil Air Fleet 1st Separate Aviation Regiment into Civil Air Fleet 120th Guards Separate Aviation Regiment, bearing the signature of Joseph Stalin.

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U.S. Returns Historical Documents, Stolen From Russia In Chaotic '90s

9:36am March 05, 2016

by Corey Flintoff

Cooperation is rare these days between Washington and Moscow. But the U.S. Embassy handed over 28 historical documents that had disappeared in the tumultuous years following the Soviet breakup.

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Italian Schoolboy May Officially Get Credit For New Word

3:33pm March 04, 2016

An eight-year-old boy in Italy came up with "petaloso" — which means full of petals. With help from his teacher, it may become an official word in the Italian dictionary.

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