by Abdullah Mustafa | Jan 21, 2017 | World
Members of the European Parliament have requested that EU institutions and member states provide urgent assistance to migrants and refugees who are facing cold weather and snow in a number of EU countries. They also called on European governments to keep their...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 14, 2017 | World
A powerful winter storm battered Europe on Friday, knocking power out for 330,000 homes in France, prompting the evacuation of thousands of seaside dwellers in Britain and disrupting travel. Britain issued more than a dozen severe flood warnings, meaning there was a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 3, 2016 | Middle East
With No food or fuel reaching distressed Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for more than a million people still in areas of the city still held by terror group ISIS, residents said on Saturday. A trader in Mosul,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 19, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East, World
GENEVA – Thousands of refugee children travelling along the migration route through Turkey and southeastern Europe are at risk from a sustained spell of freezing weather in the next two weeks, the United Nations and aid agencies said on Tuesday. The U.N. weather...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 8, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
BAR ELIAS, Lebanon, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Syrian refugee Hussein Hammoud is banking on a broom handle to protect his 12 children from the winter cold. He is using one to prop up the flimsy shelter that has already collapsed once this year under the weight of snow in...
