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Cholera spreading ‘rapidly’ across Lebanon: WHO

A deadly cholera outbreak is spreading “rapidly” across Lebanon, exacerbated by a prolonged economic crisis and crumbling infrastructure, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday. Lebanon’s first cholera outbreak in decades began earlier this month after the virulent disease...

N. Macedonia: Nearly 400 migrants prevented from entering

 Police in North Macedonia said Sunday that nearly 400 migrants have been prevented from entering illegally into the country from neighboring Greece in the past four days during a joint operation led by the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol. Police said in a statement...

In Jordan camp, a new generation of Syrians born in exile

Ten years after fleeing war in her native Syria, Hadeel is expecting a third child, brought into a life of poverty and uncertainty at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The squalid camp, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital Amman, is home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees, according...

Heading home: Syrian refugees in Lebanon going back to Syria

Hundreds of Syrian refugees boarded a convoy of trucks laden with mattresses, blankets, water and fuel tanks — and, in one case, a goat — in the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal on Wednesday, heading home to Syria. Their journey is the latest attempt by Beirut to organize a mass...