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British Charity Says That Children Are at Risk in Overcrowded Refugee Camps

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 18, 2016 | World

The international charity Save the Children yesterday warned that serious congestion in the camps for migrants in Greece is exposing thousands of Syrian children to risk after the number of immigrants arriving in the country more than doubled during the first half of...

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General secretary of Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland – ZMD) Nurhan Soykan (L) meets with Germany’s right-wing populist AfD co-chair Frauke Petry (R) om May 23, 2016 in Berlin. / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ

German Far-Right Leader Wants to Send Refugees to Islands Outside Europe

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 13, 2016 | World

The head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) says Berlin should send rejected asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to islands outside Europe and turn its refugee office into an emigration bureau. Party leader Frauke Petry made the suggestions in an...

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Madiha Algothany and her husband, Mahmoud al-Rifai, and one of their children in Baltimore. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

U.S. Could Exceed Goal of Accepting 10,000 Syrian Refugees

by Julie Hirschfeld Davis | Aug 7, 2016 | Middle East

Baltimore- When Madiha Algothany and her family, Syrian refugees who had fled to Jordan, arrived in the United States in June, they braced for rejection from a new culture and country they feared did not want them. They knew that, like Donald J. Trump, many Americans...

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FIREWORKS are seen during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. AFP

Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Dazzles the World

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 7, 2016 | Entertainment

London – Director Fernando Meirelles was faced with a great challenge when he was assigned to orchestrate the Rio Olympics opening ceremony. The director of the award-winning film “City of God” and “The Constant Gardener” is known for dealing with crime and violence...

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Muslim migrants who live in Greece pray at the Greek-Arab Cultural Center, a Muslim prayer site in Athens, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Lawmakers in Greece have approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens, a proposal that triggered dissent within the country’s coalition government amid a heated public debate on how manage the migrant crisis. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece to Build Athens Mosque

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 4, 2016 | World

Lawmakers in Greece on Thursday approved the construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that was not well received within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how to manage the Syrian refugee crisis. The proposal,...