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EU border agency: 'Illegal border crossings' on the rise

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of people trying to enter Europe without authorization has risen significantly this year to surpass migrant border crossing figures from 2019, before restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited travel, the European Union’s border and coast...

On the scrap heap: Syria's 'horrific' child labour

Al-Bab (Syria) (AFP) – Syria's decade-long conflict forced 15-year-old Mohammad Makhzoum out of the classroom and into a scrapyard, where the orphan works 12 hours a day to support his younger siblings. Mohammad, who has been working since he was nine, leaves home everyday at dawn for a...

Kurdish doctor in Poland warns migrants not to come

A medical doctor of Kurdish origin working in Poland has warned people back in his homeland not to attempt the increasingly deadly journey into the European Union through Belarus and Poland. Dr. Arsalan Azzaddin was seeing migrants from Iraq and Syria coming into his hospital in eastern...

Damascus: Doctors remove toothpick from woman’s liver

A Syrian team of surgeons successfully removed a toothpick from a young woman’s liver in a hospital in Damascus, local media reported. The young woman told doctors at the hospital’s emergency room that she was suffering from fever and severe stomach pain. Following medical examinations,...