Egyptian billionaire offers to buy Mediterranean island to accommodate refugees

Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and philanthropist from Egypt, has announced a bid to purchase land in the Mediterranean which would be used to provide refugees a new home, CNN reported on Friday. "Greece or Italy, sell me an island," Sawiris tweeted. In another tweet, he suggested calling the island "Aylan" after the Syrian boy who made international headlines after pictures surfaced of his drowned body washed ashore in Turkey.  








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