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Turkey threatens to cut ties with EU
ANKARA, Turkey — German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey's president on Monday that Ankara must fulfill all the European Union's conditions, including revisions to Turkey's anti-terror laws, to secure visa-free travel to the EU for its citizens.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian Summit meeting in Istanbul, Merkel said that she doesn't expect the visa waiver to be implemented at the beginning of July as was originally hoped.
Multiple blasts in Syria kill 80
BEIRUT — A series of coordinated explosions including suicide bombings rocked two normally quiet coastal government strongholds in Syria Monday, killing more than 80 people and wounding 200 others, state media and opposition activists said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
