Eastern Europe

Survivors, Dutch soldiers reflect on Srebrenica in new exhibition

Survivors, Dutch soldiers reflect on Srebrenica in new exhibition

Published 09/02/2017

Boudewijn Kok, former member of Dutch batallion serving with the U.N. peacekeepers, walks through Memorial Centre in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Former Dutch peacekeepers and bereaved Bosnian Muslims confronted painful memories on Thursday at the opening of a new permanent exhibition in Srebrenica, where Serb forces massacred more than 8,000 people in 1995.

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Greece should quit euro zone, get debt relief, German party leader says

Greece should quit euro zone, get debt relief, German party leader says

Published 09/02/2017

Christian Lindner, chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party FDP addresses the media in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Greece should leave the euro zone and then be given debt relief, the head of Germany's pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) told a German radio station on Thursday.

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