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ZINTAN, Libya — Some 30 quad bikes, motorcycles and four-wheel drives are rallying in Libya's desert — a welcome but rare taste of normality for a nation lashed by the shifting sands of conflict.At the launch in 2013, organisers of the Al Hamada rally had envisioned an annual event, yet this year's episode is only the third to get beyond the starting line.Competitors from

SHARE Last week, the Danish government stripped residency status from 94 Syrian refugees in the country, in preparation for deporting them back to Syria, after determining that the war-torn nation is now apparently safe enough for refugees to return. The move appears to be an effort to stave off a challenge from the anti-immigrant far right in Denmark, by becoming even more xenophobic than them. The implication is that this is the first in a series of reviews of the status of the few thousand S...

Among those facing that fate are siblings Dania, 22, and Hussam, 20, who have been living in Denmark since 2015. They made it to Europe after a dangerous journey out of Syria through Damascus, where they were stopped at checkpoints and had to bribe military officers. "If we come back, we risk being killed because it is not safe to go back again," Dania told The National. "And then there is the insecurity about how a dictator-ruled country will react to citizens who have turned their backs on t...

Among those facing that fate are siblings Dania, 22, and Hussam, 20, who have been living in Denmark since 2015. They made it to Europe after a dangerous journey out of Syria through Damascus, where they were stopped at checkpoints and had to bribe military officers. "If we come back, we risk being killed because it is not safe to go back again," Dania told The National. "And then there is the insecurity about how a dictator-ruled country will react to citizens who have turned their backs on t...