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The sprawling Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan provides temporary shelter to 115,000 people who have fled the violence in neighboring Syria. On Thursday, the camp received a distinguished visitor: US Secretary of State John Kerry. Far from being welcomed with open arms, though, a small number of representatives from the camp demanded that the US and its Western allies set up no-fly zones and safe zones inside of Syria to stop the violence. According to the United Nations, the death toll in the civil war has reached more than 93,000 and has become the worst humanitarian crisis the world has seen since the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 /Der Spiegel Der Spiegel som jag tar mig friheten att utnämna till Europas bästa tidskrift. Den som vill följa med har sett till att få tidskriftens nyhetsbrev (engelska eller tyska); gå hit: http://www.spiegel.de/dienste/a-352020.html |
