Tags: Lebanon

Germany proposes creating 500,000 short-term jobs for Syrian immigrants. The proposal will be presented next week at the Syria Aid Conference in London.

At least 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded on Thursday in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State in a crowded residential district in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah.

Hungary's parliament authorized the government on Monday to deploy the army to help handle a wave of migrants, granting the military the right to use non-lethal force.