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CAIRO – Egypt has named a new ambassador to Israel nearly three years after it had recalled the last one at the outset of the 2012 Israeli offensive in Gaza. A statement released Sunday said President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi named ambassador Hazem Khairat as part of a regular reshuffle of Egypt’s …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Balking at European Union rules, Hungary’s government says it will temporarily not take back any asylum seekers who registered in Hungary but moved elsewhere in Europe before their requests were resolved. According to the EU’s Dublin regulation, refugees can be sent back to the country where they …

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia has sharply criticized Hungary’s insistence on building a border fence to stop the flow of illegal migrants and has urged the EU to say whether it wants such structures on its territory. “I thought the Berlin wall had fallen,” Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday …