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The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, congratulates Croatia on joining Europe's border check-free Schengen area but expresses disappointment after accession bids by Bulgaria and Romania were blocked in an EU ministers' meeting."You deserve to be full members of Schengen, you deserve to have access to the free movement in the Schengen area," she says. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hails the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. The move is "some step forward" toward the defence of people in border villages, Zelensky tells reporters at a Ukrainian-Northern Europe security summit in Stockholm. SOUNDBITE
Sebastian Kurz and Austria's new conservative-green coalition ministers enter the Presidency building in Vienna for a swearing-in ceremony after the world's youngest democratically elected leader returned at the head of an unlikely coalition with the Greens following the collapse of his previous alliance with the far-right. IMAGES of the coalition government arriving
US President Donald Trump denies giving a "green light" to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to launch operations against Kurdish militants in Syria. Trump dismisses a question on the topic from a reporter at the White House as "deceptive" saying, "they've been wanting to do that for years." SOUNDBITE
Bolivia's constitutional court Tuesday authorised leftist President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019, despite the South American nation rejecting the move in a referendum last year. SOUNDBITE
Austrians begin voting in a key presidential runoff which could usher in the European Union's first extreme right-wing leader amid the continent's worst migrant crisis since World War II. IMAGES of Alexander van der Bellen voting