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The EU is committing "ritual suicide" with its migration policy, says Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

In an interview for Czech daily Pravo, quoted by French agency AFP, Fico urged EU's 28 member-states "to stop the influx of illegal immigrants."

Some 40,000 people demonstrated in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Sunday to demand early elections amid the ongoing crisis in Europe's poorest country, local media reported. 

"The people are with us. They do not want to support oligarchs and the criminal authorities," opposition leader Andrei Nastase told protesters, AFP news agency reported.

One person has been left “brain-dead” and five more have been hospitalized after a clinical trial on a cannabis-based drug went wrong in France, according to French Health Ministry.

The statement said the “serious accident” happened on Thursday, stopping the tests and forcing all volunteers to be recalled, while confirming that one of the test subjects “brain dead.”

French and Russian air strikes killed at least 33 Islamic State jihadis in the last 72 hours, the French agency AFP is reporting on Wednesday.

The report is quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as its source.

Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors on Sunday morning detained Oprescu on suspicion that he took bribes of around 25,000 euro from several companies in exchange for getting them public contracts with the city hall.

They charged him as part of an organised group within the public administration that asked firms to kick back to 70 per cent of their profits from their work.

China has criticized the United States for violations of human rights, condemning it for police brutality, racism and worldwide spying.

The mental health of the co-pilot of crashed Germanwings passenger plane was a "serious lead" in the inquiry, but not the only one, French prosecutors said on Saturday.

Lowcost airlines easyJet, Air Transat and Norwegian Air Shuttle have announced a change in the rules for pilots during flights.

According to the rule amendments, there should always be two crew members in the cockpit. Whenever one of the pilots needs to leave, the main air hostess will substitute them.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta stated, on Tuesday, that he is shocked by the news of the air crash in France and declared that his thoughts go towards the families and close ones of the victims of the crash.

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The leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko said that 90% of its forces have been retreated from the contact line with Ukraine on Thursday.