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U.N. Envoy: Libya Needs To Find Its Own Solutions To Migrant Crisis

6:56pm May 13, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Bernardino León, head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, about the EU's proposal to use military force in going after human smugglers in Libya.

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EU Commission To Submit Plan To Share In Migrant Burden

6:46pm May 13, 2015

by Sylvia Poggioli

The European Union is planning to propose to its 28-member nations a quota on migrants entering Europe. It also is seeking military action against people smuggling migrants out of Libya.

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Pope Francis meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 25, 2014. The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized today.

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Vatican Officially Recognizes State Of Palestine

3:43pm May 13, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

In a treaty between the two sides, the Holy See switches its diplomatic relations from the Palestine Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine. Israel said it was "disappointed."

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Refugee Arrivals To German Town Delayed After Shelter Is Destroyed

7:58am May 13, 2015

Steve Inskeep talks with Volker Herzon, the mayor of Vorra, Germany, about how the town plans to adjust to the arrival of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.

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An ancient city at the mouth of the Mediterranean, Ceuta marks its 600th anniversary this year as a European territory. But changing demographics have some people wondering whether the Spanish territory in North Africa should return to local African rule.

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A Foot In Africa, A Foot In Europe: Divide Grows Wider In Ceuta

7:22pm May 12, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

The Spanish city is physically part of Africa. About half of its people are more prosperous Europeans; half are Arabic-speaking Muslims disproportionately living in poverty. That disparity is growing.

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John Kerry Meets With President Putin In Sochi

7:22pm May 12, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry finally got the meeting he's been chasing for many months. He met face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the resort town of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday.

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The world's oldest operating cinema, the Eden, in La Ciotat, southern France, screened some of the first films of the Lumiere brothers in 1895.

Still Playing: The Theater That Saw The Birth Of Cinema

1:22pm May 12, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

Not far from the film festival in Cannes is a town with even deeper ties to cinema. La Ciotat is home to the oldest working movie house in the world and was used by the inventors of moving pictures.

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Kerry Flies To Russia To Discuss Ukraine, Syria Conflicts With Putin

1:19pm May 12, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday meets Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since the war in Ukraine broke out. Kerry is a true believer in face-to-face diplomacy.

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American GIs line up in the street in Troina, Sicily, utensils and dishes in hand, as they wait for a meal from a large pot, July 1943. Oregano grows abundantly in Southern Italy, where many GIs encountered the herb for the first time, and fell in love. M

GIs Helped Bring Freedom To Europe, And A Taste For Oregano To America

4:45pm May 11, 2015

by Nina Martyris

Now ubiquitous, oregano was a rarity in U.S. cuisine before World War II. But the GIs who encountered it in Sicily fell for the herb, especially in pizza, fueling a boom in Italian-American cuisine.

The Italian coast guard pulls migrants from an inflatable dinghy off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea last month. European Union leaders have submitted a plan of action to save lives in the Mediterranean.

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EU Proposes A Plan To Address The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

1:20pm May 11, 2015

by Brian Naylor

The European Union presented a proposal to the UN Monday morning, hoping to activate a plan for handling the flood of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to Europe.