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Poland, Hungary, Czechs broke EU laws by refusing to host migrants in 2015 – top court advisor Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke the law by refusing to take in asylum seekers coming to the EU during the chaotic summer of 2015, an advisory body to the bloc’s highest court said on Thursday. The feud over migration has bitterly divided the EU since a spike in Mediterranean arrivals caught it unprepared in 2015. The three ex-communist countries on the EU’s eastern flank refused to take in any of those refugees and migrants, citing security concerns. They also questioned the legal grounds for the EU assigning each country a fixed quota of people to accept. The Advocate General, which advises the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said on Thursday that the EU’s principle of...

US supports N. Macedonia’s accession to NATO – DC diplomat A senior US diplomat has reaffirmed Washington’s support for North Macedonia’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union. Matthew Palmer, a US special representative for the Western Balkans, said after meeting North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in Skopje on Thursday that the US was looking forward to the country becoming NATO’s 30th member “in short order.” The statement came two weeks after France vetoed the country’s EU membership talks. Skopje hopes to join NATO by the end of the year or in January. US supports N. Macedonia’s accession to NATO – DC diplomat Source: RT

ICYMI: Al-Baghdadi death - Not even killing the head of ISIS can win Trump any credit (VIDEO) The one thing any US president can rely on, whatever is happening domestically, is that they’ll get at least some credit for overseeing the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist. Unless you’re Donald Trump. When Trump stood before the nation and announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, you could see he was preparing to bask in the praise that was sure to come his way. However, if he thought he was going to get the kind of praise Barack Obama got following the death of Osama Bin Laden, then he had another thing coming. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDw0vfpC1ik&w=900&h=506] For more, follow #ICYMI on ...

Israeli military says attempt to down its drone over Lebanon ‘failed’ Israel’s military said an anti-aircraft missile was fired from Lebanon at one of its drones on Thursday but the aircraft was not hit in the rare launch, Reuters reports. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen TV said earlier that an Israeli drone was brought down near the town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon. Al-Manar TV cited Hezbollah as saying that the movement targeted a drone over the country’s south with “appropriate weapons” forcing it to leave Lebanese airspace. Lebanon’s biggest militia Hezbollah had vowed in August to shoot down Israeli drones in Lebanese airspace. The statement followed a suspected Israeli drone strike on a Hezbollah-linked facility in Beirut. Israeli military says attempt to down it...

‘Sawing off the branch it’s sitting on’: US has itself to blame for dollar collapse – Keiser Report While the United States is sanctioning countries and causing them to shift away from the dollar, Russia and China continue boosting trade and their gold reserves, says Dmitry Orlov of popular Club Orlov blog. “The strategy for both Russia and China is to let the Americans do it all to themselves, by themselves. There won’t be anyone but themselves to blame,” Orlov told RT’s Keiser Report. According to the Russian-American social commenter, the US is limiting people’s access to dollar transactions by introducing sanctions and threatening to cut people off from the SWIFT payment network. //www.youtube.com/embed...