Visit by Estonian leader — currently holding EU’s rotating presidency — could ‘revive’ relations, says Turkish PM The prime ministers of Turkey and Estonia met on Wednesday for high-level talks in the capital Ankara, where [ More … ]
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are being evicted and their businesses are being shut down, following new labour laws that have been subject to global condemnation. Following new labour laws that have been subject to global [ More … ]
Hungary announced on Monday that it was ready to enforce a controversial law to detain asylum-seekers in camps on its southern border with Serbia. Hungary’s parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum-seekers in camps [ More … ]
Traffickers’ rings in the Libyan desert and Mediterranean coast will be in the crosshairs after European and North African countries reached a deal to ramp up anti-migration efforts. European and North African nations will step [ More … ]
As the battle against Islamic State in western Mosul intensifies, tens of thousands have fled the violence to be accommodated in the already over-crowded camps. However, the UN expects the number of displaced people to [ More … ]
More than 200,000 people have been forced to flee as a result of the US-backed Iraqi forces’ battle to retake Mosul city from ISIS that began in October, according to a nongovernmental organization. The United States is [ More … ]
After the new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, the consequences have immediately started to appear as tens of travelers were held detained in [ More … ]
The new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” “I’m establishing new [ More … ]
As the war in the middle east region draws a dark image of the present time, this image in the future will be darker if nothing is done to save the lost generations who are [ More … ]
France will begin dismantling the “Jungle” migrant camp in the port of Calais on Monday morning, officials say. The 6,500 to 10,000 refugees living in the camp will be given two choices: Either to be [ More … ]
Ten thousand refugees stranded in Greece are ready to be relocated, European Parliament Vice President Dimitris Papadimoulis, who is also a member of Greece’s Syriza, said Tuesday. The refugees are unable to do so after several [ More … ]
There are now more than 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece, most of them seeking to travel to Germany and other EU countries. But they are unable to do so after several eastern European and [ More … ]
Thousands of people were forced to flee to safety on Monday after a fire, set on purpose according to police, tore through a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. No casualties were reported [ More … ]
As world leaders gather for US President Barack Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Refugees on September 20, they should urgently address how to get the more than 3.5 million refugee children around the world who aren’t [ More … ]
Turkey’s state-run news agency says 137 migrants have been stopped trying to cross from Turkey’s Aegean coastline to the Greek islands, where thousands are stuck after the colsure of Balkan route earlier this year. Anadolu [ More … ]
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