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MACEDONIA

Train kills migrants in remote gorge

A group of migrants trying to reach European opportunity via what's billed by smugglers as a "safe" route - trekking along train tracks through the Balkans - was hit by an overnight train in a remote river gorge in Macedonia, killing 14.

The deaths of the migrants from Africa and Asia underscore how, even as tens of thousands risk drowning in the Mediterranean, many others gamble with their lives by taking perilous overland journeys to reach Hungary, a popular back door to the 28-nation European Union.

- AP
YEMEN

U.N.: Civilians killed

Saudi planes have killed dozens of civilians in Yemen in recent days, U.N. officials said Friday. "We have recorded a number of airstrikes that have hit military and civilian positions," said Rupert Coleville, spokesman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

- McClatchy Newspapers
ROMANIA

Theft ring exposed

Prosecutors detained 14 people Friday who are suspected of belonging to a network of well-dressed robbers who were trained to rob luxury items in Romania and the EU. - Bloomberg

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