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IS Destroys Ancient Temple in Cultural Cleansing Campaign
June 13, 2016
The Islamic State's reported destruction of the ancient Temple of Nabu in Iraq continues the Islamist group's attempts to cleanse its territory of historically and culturally significant sites linked to Christians and other religious minorities in the region.
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East African Islamist Group Raids Somali Hotel
June 09, 2016
The Guardian reports that al-Shabaab, an Islamist group whose mission is to impose sharia law throughout East Africa, has raided a hotel frequented by diplomats and government officials in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and killed at least 15 people.
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UN Roundtable Pushes GCE to Prevent Extremism
June 09, 2016
The UN recently hosted a roundtable at which officials called for the introduction at the national level of the organization's "global citizenship education" agenda, which emphasizes a focus on "positive" rather than "negative" values, in order to prevent what the UN calls "violent extremism" around the world.
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EU Framework Includes Legal Migration Routes
June 09, 2016
The European Commission has proposed a New Migration Partnership Framework, under which the EU will partner with external countries to improve conditions in order to deter migration and will also seek to provide migrants "alternative legal pathways to Europe" that are closer to their countries of origin.
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EU Party Group Debates Permanent Exclusion of Turkey
June 08, 2016
Politico reports that the European People's Party, the largest political party group in the European Parliament, has failed to come to a conclusion on whether to support a policy paper drafted by members of the group that calls for the permanent exclusion of Turkey from membership in the EU.
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