BERLIN Around a third of asylum seekers arriving in Germany who claim to be from Syria are probably not actually from that country, a spokesman for the German interior ministry said on Friday.
"30 percent of those asylum seekers who claim to be Syrian are not Syrians according to this estimate," Tobias Plate said at a government news conference, adding that there were, however, no precise statistics on this.
(Reporting by Michelle Martin and Keith Weir)
DIYARBAKIR/ANKARA Six children were among eight civilians wounded when three rockets fired from Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria hit a Turkish border town on Thursday, the Turkish military said.
UNITED NATIONS Britain should apologize for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday.
HAVANA Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader to visit Communist-ruled Cuba on Thursday, landing in Havana to hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on topics from boosting trade to curbing North Korea's nuclear program.