Madrid migrants clash with police after death of street vendor

Demonstrators said they were protesting in support of Mmame Mbage, a street vendor in his mid-thirties from Senegal, who arrived in Spain by boat 12 years ago. Mbage was found unconscious on a street in Lavapiés by police on patrol. They were trying to revive him when emergency workers arrived, but he died of cardiac arrest, according …

Hungarian minister: Migrants make Vienna dirtier, poorer

Lazar was being filmed during a visit to Vienna when he made controversial comments about immigrants living in the city. “Vienna has become a worse place because of the refugees,” he says in the video, which was published Tuesday on his Facebook page. “Evidently the streets are dirtier, evidently the area is poorer and there’s …

German far-right AfD politicians travel to Syria in effort to send back refugees

Citing a lack of trust in media coverage, AfD parliamentarians have gone to Syria to assess the security situation for themselves. The party has been pushing to declare Syria a safe country and send back Syrian refugees. Parliamentarians with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) are traveling around Syria in an unusual trip this week in hopes …

UN: Rohingya being subjected to campaign of forced starvation

The UN assistant secretary-general for human rights says the nature of the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar has changed from the frenzied blood-letting to a lower intensity campaign of terror. Myanmar is continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya with a “campaign of terror and forced starvation” in Rakhine state, a UN human rights …

The number of adolescent asylum seekers who commited suicide reaches to 12 in Sweden

In 2017 alone, twelve adolescent asylum seekers committed suicide, according to a survey by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conducted on behalf of the National Board of Health. By contrast, the figure was below ten in 2016, with no registered suicide cases within the group in 2015. All the asylum seekers who took their lives in 2017 were boys and men under the age of 21. Almost all of them came from Afghanistan and had …

8 Palestinians killed, dozens injured as Israel suppresses massive protest in Gaza

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 …

German interior minister to keep migrants in asylum centers

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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