Some 500 migrants were rescued in seven operations launched over the weekend in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said. A spokesman told AFP Sunday that four of the rescue operations had already wound up but the others were ongoing. "Saturday was quiet on the whole but now there...

Hanna Yussef dreams of following thousands of fellow Iraqi Christians to refuge in Europe, abandoning a precarious existence in Jordan, where he has lived since fleeing Islamist violence at home. But he's staying put for now because he can't afford the money needed for the perilous...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity has dropped sharply over her handling of the refugee crisis, two polls showed on Saturday, indicating a shift in the mood in Europe's most populous country towards the record influx of new arrivals. Merkel has been accused by her allies in...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fly Agaric , Amanita muscaria and other poisonous kinds of mushrooms have become a new killer for Syrians, as it caused death for many Syrian refugees in Germany and Sweden as many refugees died as a result of eating these plants thinking...