AFP, Berlin
Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported Sunday.
With some 196,000 children fleeing war and poverty entering the German school system this year, 8,264 “special classes” have been created to help the new arrivals catch up with their peers, Die Welt said, citing a survey carried out in 16 German federal states.
“Some 8,500 additional teachers have been recruited nationwide,” the daily said.
US tornados death toll rises to 43
Agencies, Chicago
At least 43 people were killed across seven states since Wednesday following days of severe weather, including flash floods in Illinois and tornadoes in Texas.
The Marion County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Office said five people were killed Saturday as a major storm system brought flash flooding and blizzard conditions to parts of the United States.
14 killed in bomb blasts in Syria’s Homs
AFP, Damascus
At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in large bomb blasts Monday in the central Syrian city of Homs, state media reported. “The preliminary toll in simultaneous terrorist explosions that hit the city’s Al-Zahraa neighbourhood is 14 dead and 132 wounded,” state television reported in a news flash.
3 killed in Cairo’s city blast
AP, Cairo
Egypt’s government says an explosion in Cairo’s twin city of Giza killed three people, including a senior judge, and injured 11.
An Interior Ministry statement said the blast on Sunday in Giza’s Faisal neighborhood was apparently the result of a gas leak and dismissed the possibility of an intentional attack.
The ministry, which is in charge of the police, says the judge was “coincidentally” passing by the building where the explosion occurred.
