A total of 1,662 migrants have landed on Greek islands near Turkey since a landmark EU-Turkish deal on curbing the influx took effect on Sunday, a Greek coordination panel said Monday.
Brushing past profound differences, US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro were scheduled to sit down on Monday at Havana's Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama's sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
Some of Yemen's last remaining Jews have arrived in Israel after a clandestine operation retrieved them from the war-torn country, an Israeli nonprofit group said on Monday.
For the last decade, Somali refugees have flocked to this conservative farm town on Colorado's eastern plains. They've started a small halal mini-market and a restaurant, sent their children to the schools and worked at a meat processing plant.
Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is getting some self-help advice and gaining a bit of weight in prison under his new, tighter-security regime, but Mexico's formerly most wanted man is apparently not doing so well in the love department.
A leading Kenyan wildlife expert has said the noise from road construction is scaring lions out of Nairobi National Park and could lead to the death of people or the lions.
Greece said it was unable to start sending refugees back to Turkey on Sunday, struggling to implement a key deal aimed at easing Europe's migrant crisis.
Investigators in southern Russia on Sunday were probing the causes of a FlyDubai passenger jet crash that killed all 62 people on board, as emergency workers at the site wrapped up the salvage operation.
A suicide attack on Istanbul's main pedestrian shopping street on Saturday killed five people, including two dual nationality Israeli-Americans and one Iranian citizen, and wounded several dozen others, in the sixth suicide bombing in Turkey in the past year.
Captured fugitive Salah Abdeslam initially planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks but changed his mind, a prosecutor said on Saturday, after Europe's most wanted man was charged with "terrorist murder" for his role in the November assaults.
A bus carrying university students back from a fireworks festival crashed on Sunday on a main highway in northeastern Spain, killing 14 passengers and injuring 30 others, a Catalonian official said.
Eyeing a new future with the United States, Cubans are preparing their famed capital for a long-awaited visit by US President Barack Obama, who will make history when Air Force One touches down in Havana.
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