Turkish Refugee Camp

A refugee camp in Turkey is preparing to release tens of thousands of migrants sparking fears they will flee to EU member state Greece, satellite images suggest. Greek authorities have increased coastguard, air force and navy patrols in preparation for an influx of migrants.Satellite images taken in Turkey appear to show…

Today is the 100th day of 2020. There are 266 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT837: Halley's Comet makes its closest known passage to Earth: 5 million kilometres (3 million miles).OTHER EVENTS641: An army commanded by Amr Ibn al-As conquers Egypt by seizing the Babylon fort in the Nile…

Statement to the press by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe8 April 2020, Copenhagen, DenmarkGood morning.The figuresToday, we are in the fifteenth week of our global battle with the novel coronavirus. The first cases in the European Region were reported on 24 January 2020. Given the…

6 April 2020 - Parties to Syria's brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN's so-called deconfliction list, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. He made that…

He made that point as he sent to the Security Council a summary of a 185-page report from the UN Board of Inquiry that he set up on 1 August last year, into a number of incidents in northwest Syria involving facilities on the deconfliction list and UN-supported facilities.  Places…

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By Edith M. LedererThe Associated PressMon., April 6, 2020timer4 min. readTANZANIA, Tanzania - A U.N. investigation found it “highly probable” that the Syrian government or its allies were responsible for attacks on four civilian facilities in the last opposition stronghold in the northwest in 2019 — a school, a health…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. investigation found it “highly probable” that the Syrian government or its allies were responsible for attacks on four civilian facilities in the last opposition stronghold in the northwest in 2019 — a school, a health care center, a hospital and a child care facility.The…

The pandemic is dictating Greek asylum policy. The coronavirus forced Turkish President Erdogan to cease blackmail attempts at the border with Greece — but it has afforded Athens the opportunity to push through plans. In retrospect, it seems that residents of Greece's eastern border regions were justifiably skeptical about the…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Munir Ahmed,  Noelle Whitestone,  Jennifer L. Patnaik,  Mohammad Awlad Hossain,  Lutful Husain,  Mohammed Alauddin,  Mushfiqur Rahaman,  David Hunter Cherwek,  Nathan Congdon,  Danny Haddad x Published: March 31, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003096 Abstract Background There is a growing awareness that addressing chronic as well as acute…