Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers say.
New legal action by the EU against eastern member states for refusing to take their share of refugees shows how the worst migration crisis since World War II still divides the continent.
EU leaders agree to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months because Moscow has failed to meet its Ukraine ceasefire commitments.
Political leaders across the European Union are unable to come to terms on any kind of common burden-sharing scheme with regard to accepting asylum seekers and refugees.
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