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Passion Islam I April 2013 WORLD NEWS I 13
Whole generation of Syrian
children could be lost: U.N
Saudi Arabia
to crack down
on fake visas
Saudi Arabia has moved closer to
introducing biometric centres to
help clamp down on fake visas and
foreigners banned from entering the
kingdom.
The Foreign Ministry said it had
signed contracts with international
companies to set up biometric centers
in the UAE, South Korea and Germany
to provide visa services to prospective
visitors, including pilgrims.
The first centre, in the UAE, would
be opened by the end of the month,
Assistant Foreign Minister Prince
Khaled bin Saud said.
Prince Khaled said the new system
would help speed up entry procedures,
particularly during Hajj and Umrah when
millions of pilgrims flock to the country.
“It will also enable authorities to
know those foreigners who have been
banned from entering the Kingdom
before issuing new visas as well as to
identify fake visa applicants,” he said.
The biometrics system also would
speed up identification of visitors in the
event of death or an accident.
A whole generation of Syrian
children risks being lost amid the
spiraling civil war in the country,
the U.N. children’s agency
cautioned, saying it was in urgent
need of funds to address the crisis.
“Millions of children inside
Syria and across the region are
witnessing their past and their
futures disappear amidst the rubble
and destruction of this prolonged
conflict,” UNICEF chief Anthony
Lake said in a report published two
years to the day after the Syrian
conflict began.
The Geneva-based agency
pointed out that nearly half of the
four million in dire need of aid
inside Syria are under the age
of 18, and 536,000 of them are
children under the age of five.
Some 800,000 children under
the age of 14 have meanwhile
been internally displaced by the
A Mosque that can cater
for 3,000 worshippers has
been given the go-ahead by
city planners.
The development,
to be built in Clongriffin,
north Dublin, will Become
Ireland’s largest Muslim
Cultural Centre catering
to the 40,000-strong
community living in the capital.
The application to Dublin City
Council Was Submitted by an
organization called the Dublin
Welfare Society. Was It Planners
approved by a Staggering and will
cost € 40m, Which is Believed to
be coming from the United Arab
Emirates in a Backer. Clongriffin is a
new town on the Northern Fringe of
Dublin city.
It Was Slated for development
at the end of the Celtic Tiger Era
Widescale and while many homes
conflict, while more than half a
million children are refugees in
neighboring countries, it said.
“In short, the crisis is reaching
a point of no return, with long-term
consequences for Syria and the
region as a whole, including the
risk of a lost generation of Syrian
children,” UNICEF said in its
report.
The agency stressed that it was
severely underfunded to help all
the children in need, warning that
it will have to “halt a number of
key life-saving interventions by the
end of March 2013” if it does not
receive more funds.
UNICEF said it so far had
received only 20 percent of the
$195 million it had appealed for to
help children and women affected
by the crisis in Syria and in
neighboring countries through the
end of June.
Mosque for 3,000 gets
go-ahead in Dublin
and apartments Were built in the
area, there are some ghost estates
and large Stretches of Wasteland.
The Planned mosque will have
a three-Domed cultural center and
conferencing primary and secondary
schools as well as facilities onsite.
NetworkPage The one hundred
and fifty-seven thousand sq ft
development will include a 130th
- seat restaurant, some apartments
and landscaped Gardens.
It will Cater for 550 people for
Friday Prayers and as many as
3000 for Eid.