A 2-year-old girl of Kurdish origin has died after Belgian police chased a van carrying illegal migrants, local media report. The girl died on the way to hospital after the van was stopped by armed police in the western city of Mons, according to the news agency Belga. Officers reportedly opened fire on the vehicle …
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The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) was informed about possible improprieties in the approval of asylum applications at its branch in the northern city of Bremen earlier than it admitted, German media reported on May 21. The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that emails it had seen suggested that BAMF head Jutta Cordt had received internal information …
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Senior German conservatives want to set up new “values lessons” for refugee children in German schools, according to a newspaper report. The standards are to be held above cultural or religious views. German conservatives are set to push for new lessons that would teach both German language and values to children of refugees, the Rheinische Post newspaper reported in its Monday …
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Thousands of Syrian women are believed to be incarcerated in the Assad regime’s prisons. Little is known about their fate, but those who manage to escape tell tales of horror. Muna Muhammad remembers every tiny detail. The stench in the cells, the pain, her torturers. “He pulled a black plastic bag over my head and …
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Child refugees are being abused, detained and illegally sent back to Italy by French border guards, according to a new report from Oxfam. Some children as young as 12 were being held overnight in cells without food, water or blankets, or access to an official guardian, the report states. French police routinely stop unaccompanied children and put them on trains back to …
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A rescue vessel carrying 629 migrants is stranded in the Mediterranean after Italy’s new interior minister refused permission for it to dock. Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League, said Malta should accept the Aquarius but he was rejected. Malta says the German charity SOS Méditerranée picked up the migrants in Libyan waters, which means …
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The UN migration agency said on May 6, that 40 migrants have drowned and 16 others are being presumed dead as they are still missing in Yemen’s shores. “Tragedy struck migrants trying to cross from the Horn of Africa to find employment in Yemen and the Gulf, when their vessel capsized in high waves as it approached …
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The day of “Naksa” refers to the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians as a result of the Israeli invasion of 1967. Palestinian refugees in Gaza recall the agony of being uprooted as they prepare to observe the day of “Naksa” which refers to the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians for a …
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At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, officials said on Sunday, one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years. The boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna, a tourist spot, in the night to Sunday, the …
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The EU will give Germany some €4.5 billion in compensation for having taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees since 2013, according to a media report. Each non-EU citizen accepted will bring in nearly €3,000. The European Union is set to give Germany some €4.5 billion ($5.26 billion) in the next budget period running from …
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