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Bodies of 21 migrants found on Aegean coast: Turkish gendarmerie

Turkey's gendarmerie said it found the bodies of 21 migrants, three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after their boat apparently capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the...

Snowstorm in Lebanon strands motorists, hits refugees

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- A snowstorm hit Lebanon on Friday, local media reported, stranding motorists and adding to the woes of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in makeshift shelters, Reuters reported. Emergency services deployed bulldozers to try to clear roads in...

Canada misses Syrian refugee target for 2015 as 6,000 arrive

Canada will bring in more than 6,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, missing its already delayed target of accepting 10,000 by year-end, the Canadian government said Thursday. Immigration Minister John McCallum said he expects Canada to reach that goal by mid-January, and meet its...