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Syrian refugee gets 17 years in church bomb plot case

A Syrian refugee has been sentenced to more than 17 years in what authorities said was a plot to plot to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 24, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on a guilty plea last year to a federal charge of attempting to...

Berlin turns former airport into refugee shelter

Berlin is turning a former airport into a temporary refugee shelter with 3,600 beds, as it struggles to put up more Ukrainians fleeing Russia's attacks on their country's vital infrastructure, as well as the winter weather. While two former terminals of Tegel Airport were already opened for...

House fire in Turkey kills 8 Syrian refugee children, woman

A house fire in northwestern Turkey believed to have been caused by a heater has left eight children and a woman dead, an official said Wednesday. The victims were Syrian refugees. The fire broke out late on Tuesday in the first floor of a four-story building in the Yildirim district in...