The German government started constructing two youth centers in northern Morocco to house local “street children” as well as unaccompanied Moroccan minors who have been deported by Germany, according to a report from the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. The pilot project creates a legal pathway for Germany to start deporting youths without needing …
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Denmark will no longer automatically accept a quota of refugees under a U.N. resettlement program after passing a law on Wednesday that enables the government to determine how many can enter each year. Since 1989, Denmark has agreed to take 500 refugees a year selected by the United Nations under a program to ease the …
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European countries should adopt Donald Trump-style travel bans to counter a wave of Islamisation supposedly sweeping the continent, the Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders has said. Wilders, the leader of the Netherlands’ Freedom party (PVV), made his comments at a gathering of far-right leaders in Prague. He also urged Europe to adopt Australia’s tactics in …
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Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Italy and other EU governments of being “knowingly complicit” in horrific abuses of migrants in Libya, warning of legal action against them at European and UN rights institutions. The charges by the London-based rights group mark a ratcheting up of activist and other accusations against the European Union’s policy of …
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Residents in one Paris suburb have threatened to go on hunger strike unless President Macron deals with the African migrants ‘living in squalor’ outside their homes, with women being reportedly being harassed. Locals in the 10th and 19th arrondissements have written to Macron to demand that a migrant centre in the district, one of the …
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irst, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar’s government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth — in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. Satellite images of Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press …
Syrians wait for the end of the war in their basements because of the ongoing bombardments and assaults even though the cease-fire. People live in Eastern Ghouta, under the blockade of the Beshar Assad regime, landed in shelters with only one chance to survive. People who are afraid to go out due to the attacks …
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Eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and dozens more injured since early 30 Mart morning, as thousands of Gazans took to the borders with Israel as part of “The Great March of Return” taking place across the besieged coastal enclave to mark the 42nd Land Day. In 1976,Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian …
Germany’s new interior minister, Horst Seehofer, wants to open the first so-called “anchor center” in the autumn. Many migrants are to be housed there from arrival to deportation. But police are skeptical. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is pressing ahead with his “masterplan” to speed up deportations of asylum seekers and refugees and streamline asylum procedures. Deputy Minister …
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26-year old Syrian man set himself on fire at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, in one of the most serious incidents involving stranded migrants in many months. The man was slightly burned and was treated at a local hospital, an official said. Local media said the incident took place outside an …
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