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Greece: Syrian with 300-year sentence demands justice

By Faris Rifai (Zaman al-Wasl) Noor al-Samah, a young man from Syria, is being held in a Greek prison after he was sentenced to 300 years imprisonment for smuggling and human trafficking. For al-Samah both the sentence and its length are absurd as someone who was arrested without evidence...

Algeria to take in Syrian refugees stranded at border

Algeria has agreed to take in 41 Syrian refugees trapped since mid-April in a desert area that borders neighboring Morocco, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The decision comes two days after the UN refugee agency said the plight of the refugees -- who include a pregnant woman -- was...