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Refugees begin arriving at Hungary-Austria border

Hundreds of refugees have begun arriving at Hungary's border crossing with Austria after spending days stranded at Budapest's main railway terminus. They will receive food before being registered and processed by authorities. About 4,000 refugees have arrived so far, police say, and the number is expected to reach 10,000 throughout Saturday. The development.. More

206548 05/09/2015
Syria regime, opposition agree truce for three towns

A new 48-hour truce between Syrian regime forces and the opposition in three towns entered into force on Thursday after negotiations, a mediator and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said that fighting and rocket fire had stopped in the opposition bastion of Zabadani and the besieged regime-held.. More

206434 27/08/2015
Dozens of dead refugees found on boats off Libya

Rescuers have saved about 3,000 refugees but found more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya, according to the Italian coastguard. At least 55 bodies were discovered on Wednesday on three overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea, the coastguard said. Of them, 51 were found in the hold of a wooden boat found drifting precariously off the.. More

206428 27/08/2015
Turkey announces Nov. 1 general election

A fresh general election in Turkey will be held on Nov. 1, nearly five months after an inconclusive poll that saw no party win an overall majority. The announcement came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a snap general election on Monday. Sadi Guven, president of the Supreme Election Board, on Tuesday said the election date was decided to.. More

206416 26/08/2015
Classrooms empty in Gaza as strike by UNRWA staff bites

Thousands of educational staff employed with UNRWA have taken to the streets of Gaza City on the first day of the school year, to strike over what they said was dwindling resources being provided by the United Nations agency which looks after Palestinian refugees. The employees, who were joined by supporters on Monday, said they were protesting against.. More

206377 25/08/2015
17,000 Palestinians from Gaza await permission to leave

Gaza’s Interior Ministry has said that some 17,000 Palestinians from Gaza urgently needed to cross into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing -- recently reclosed after a four-day opening -- for humanitarian reasons. On Friday, ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bazem said more than 17,000 Palestinians needed to leave the strip for humanitarian reasons,.. More

206353 23/08/2015
Barrel bombs fall on Syria’s Douma, killing 50

At least 50 people were killed on Saturday when the Syrian regime targeted a town in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus with barrel bombs, according to a local medical source. The source, who works at a local field hospital, told Anadolu Agency that Syrian aircraft had targeted Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta suburb. A number of buildings.. More

206350 23/08/2015
Macedonia allows hundreds of refugees to cross border

Macedonian police have allowed hundreds of refugees to pass through their border from Greece after police fired stun grenades for a second day in a failed bid to stop them from breaking through. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from Idomeni on the Greek side of the border, said as night fell on Saturday, it was clear the police were unable to stop.. More

206347 23/08/2015
UN: Douma attack 'may amount to a war crime'

The Syrian regime's airstrike on Sunday on a marketplace in Douma, northeast of Damascus, which caused at least 111 civilian deaths, "may amount to a war crime", the U.N. said on Tuesday. "On Sunday, there were two rounds of attacks: initial airstrikes were followed shortly afterwards by surface-to-surface missiles which hit people who.. More

206299 19/08/2015
UNRWA staff in Gaza protest over 'cuts to services'

Hundreds of employees with the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees have protested in the Gaza Strip over what they describe as the agency's slashing of the vital services it provides to Palestinians, especially schooling. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had warned that schooling for half a million Palestinian students across the Middle East.. More

206266 18/08/2015
UN slams Syria marketplace airstrike

The UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has condemned a deadly air strike on a marketplace northeast of Damascus. Mistura said Sunday’s bombing in Douma was "unacceptable in any circumstances". “The government's bombing of Douma yesterday is devastating. Attacks on civilian areas with aerial indiscriminate bombs, such.. More

206263 18/08/2015
China: Death toll after blast at warehouse rises to 112

Containers storing what is believed to be several hundred tons of sodium cyanide have been located in a port in north China where 112 people lost their lives following last week's massive warehouse explosion, state media reported Sunday. Xinhua reported Shi Luze, the chief of staff of the Beijing military region, as telling a press conference Sunday.. More

206251 17/08/2015
Indonesian plane’s wreckage spotted in Papua mountains

Indonesian search teams have spotted from the air the wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing with 54 people on board in the mountains of eastern Papua. The head of the national search and rescue agency said Monday that debris and smoke from the Trigana Air Service plane had been seen around 7 miles from an airport in Oksibil city, a remote.. More

206248 17/08/2015
Scores killed by regime attacks on Damascus suburb

Scores of people were killed on Sunday when the Syrian regime targeted a town in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus with “barrel bombs”, according to a local medical source. The source, who works at a local field hospital, told Anadolu Agency that Syrian aircraft had targeted the town of Douma, the largest town in the capital’s.. More

206245 17/08/2015
Yemen anti-Houthi forces take Taiz government buildings

Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government have made advances in Taiz, the country's third city, taking over the security headquarters and the governorate building there, following heavy clashes with Shia Houthi fighters. Fighters backing the exiled president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were reported on Saturday to be inching closer to the presidential.. More

206227 16/08/2015

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