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Police: Boat with 176 Syrians reaches Cyprus from Turkey

Cyprus police say food and medical care are being given to 176 migrants who reached the island's northwestern coast aboard a boat. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou told The Associated Press that the 16-meter (53-foot) vessel arrived Friday afternoon after setting sail from a point near...

Access to food 'precarious' for Syrians stranded near Jordan

The U.N. humanitarian chief has called for immediate access to deliver "life-saving assistance" to 50,000 Syrians stranded on the sealed border with Jordan, amid reports of shrinking food supplies. Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security Council from Jordan late Monday that "access to food...