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The European Union is failing to draw important lessons on how to discourage migrants from Africa leaving for Europe without authorization and could do more to limit abuses against people trying to make the journey, the EU's financial watchdog warned on Wednesday.

Israeli warplanes pounded villages in south Lebanon for a third day, Lebanese media reported Wednesday, while Israel said it intercepted a missile fired after sirens sounded early morning in Tel Aviv.

Lebanese officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the south this week to avoid fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hold their sixth meeting in a year in New York.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of U.S. sanctions that block his country’s defense supplies and other measures taken “unilaterally” that hinder the ability of NATO allies to achieve long-term bilateral trade goals.

Shelving the hot and difficult issue of the delimitation of the continental shelf/AEZ, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in their sixth meeting in a year (18:40 local time), will seek to once again send the message of the continuation of the mild climate in Greek-Turkish relations at a time when the clouds in the international environment have become dangerously thick and signs of “f

Türkiye's U.N. envoy, Ahmet Yıldız, warned on Friday regarding the "dangerous" impact of the PKK/YPG terror group in Syria, stressing that it is a "major destabilizing factor" in the country.

Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev has asserted that Bulgaria is not involved in the production or transit of the pagers that were recently detonated in Lebanon and Syria. He referenced statements from the State Agency for National Security (SANS) and other authorities that confirm Bulgaria's non-involvement in the incidents involving these communication devices.

Turkish security forces have detained 88 suspects linked to the ISIL in coordinated operations across the country, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said in a written statement on Sept. 20.

The raids spanned 23 of the country's 81 provinces, including the capital Ankara, Istanbul and Antalya.

The Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (SANS) has confirmed that no communication devices, like those used in the September 17 explosions in Lebanon and Syria, were imported, exported, or produced in Bulgaria. This conclusion was reached after a thorough investigation involving multiple agencies.

Turkish security forces "neutralized" a total of 50 PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Iraq and northern Syria over the past week, near Türkiye's border, said the country's National Defense Ministry on Thursday.