Four of Syria's neighbors have expressed their frustration and dismay of the lack of the help they’re receiving for the two million Syrian refugees who've fled to their countries. After a meeting at the UN and Geneva, government ministers from Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey said they would determine to put pressure on the international community to do more to tackle the refugee crisis, which they said was destabilizing the entire region. Cecilia Malmstrom, the European commissioner for Home Affairs called on European countries to take in more than the 50,000 Syrian refugees who have arrived so far.
Austria have just offered 500 places, and Germany offered 5,000 just before the summer, well, but many countries do not take one single, and I think this is an European responsibility to our neighborhood and we could give shelter to allow extended than today.
The Vatican has recalled its ambassador to the Dominican Republic and launched an investigation after local media reports accused him of pedophilia. Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski has served as Papal Nuncio in Santo Domingo for more than five years. He had not commented on the matter. Pope Francis has said he wants the Catholic Church to act decisively to rule out child abuse by priests and ensure the perpetrators are punished.
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The German President Joachim Gauck has paid the first visit by a German leader to the site of one of the worst massacres in Nazi occupied France during the Second World War. In June, 1944, more than 640 people died in the southwestern town of Oradour-sur-Glane when members of a SS division drove the population into buildings before setting them alight. Standing alongside the President Francois Hollande, Mr. Gauck said it was an emotional experience.