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Germany: nearly 1.1 million migrants arrived last year

Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the...

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...