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Istanbul (Turkey), Sep 21 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Adnan Osman, a 12-year-old Syrian Kurdish refugee, is a promising fighter for the Avcilar Municipality Sports Club in Istanbul who is clear that "he wants to win championships in name of Turkey", the country that welcomed him and his family when he was just three years old, after fleeing the war in Syria.FOOTAGE OF OSMAN DURING A FIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL ULUGAZI OIL WRESTLING IN ISTANBUL. FOOTAGE OF HIS TRAINING WITH TRAINER YASIN GÜNES.
Beirut, June 19, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Wael Hamzeh).- Noureldin and Youssef are two Syrian refugees who have managed to rebuild their lives in Lebanon, a fate that not all refugees manage to have.On the occasion of World Refugee Day, which is celebrated 20 June, the UN this year wants to remind the world that all people, including refugees, can make a contribution to society and that every action counts in creating a more just, inclusive and equal world. FOOTAGE INCLUDES SOUNDBITES BY TWO REFUGEES YOUSSEF MUSTAFA AKIL AND NOURELDIN MOUTAWEHTRANSLATIONS: Youssef Mustafa Akil:"My name is Youssef Mustafa Akil. I am 22 years old from Idlib, Syria. I am currently working in a grocery store. In Syria, I used to work as an aluminum carpenter. Due to the situation in Syria, my family and I had to emigrate from Syria under very difficult circumstances. Our only hope was to return to our home country, as we have been away since 2012/13. And now, because of the law, we cannot return."Noureldin Moutaweh:"I am Noureldin Moutaweh. I am 45 years old. I am from East Ghouta, Syria. I emigrated from Syria in 2012 because of the chaos of the war. I used to own a mobile shop and now I am working in a hardware store that is not related to my previous field of work but is able to support my family, which consists of my wife and my 7 daughters."
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Clients who step inside Ammar Kalsh's barbershop in Brasilia sometimes head right back out the door when they see that the intrepid entrepreneur cuts hair with an axe. Owner and head barber Ammar Kalsh became an internet sensation in Brazil and somewhat of a local celebrity in the Brazilian capital after being filmed using an axe and hammer to cut people's hair, taking some off the top in a way that has many grabbing for their necks. The Syrian refugee fled his native Damascus in 2014 with only the clothes on his back and $30 to his name, escaping the bloodshed and violence to start a new life in Brazil.
The 4-years-old sole survivor of a plane crash in Khabarovsk has returned home for the first time. Nina Pahomova, director of Nelkan School, believes that the child only survived because a teacher covered her child's body with her own, shortly before impact. The girl was the sole survivor of a seven-passenger-plane that crashed shortly after midday in the Eastern Russian village of Nelken.
Building solar farms in the desert may have become a common practice, but one new solar plant unveiled on Monday in northern Jordan is anything but ordinary. This 12.9 megawatt plant made up of 40,000 solar panels will provide power to people living in the Zaatari refugee camp, victims of war whose lives were turned upside when the violence reached their doorstep. The solar power plant became the largest ever located inside a refugee camp
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