The Turnbull government plans to introduce legislation to ban asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever being allowed into Australia. The ban will apply to any adult who has been sent to detention centres on Nauru or Manus Island since 19 July 2013. It means adults who have previously tried to enter Australia by …
Syrian refugee and daughters found dead in Danish freezer
The bodies of a 27-year-old Syrian woman and her two young children have been found in a freezer in southern Denmark. Officers are searching for the woman’s husband who is also father to the children, aged seven and nine. Police said they were contacted by a member of the woman’s family who had not been …
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Australian community leader slams MP’s anti-Muslim remarks
The head of Australia’s largest Muslim association has slammed claims by the country’s immigration minister that recent terror attacks are the result of a 1970’s decision to allow Lebanese refugees into Australia. Minister Peter Dutton has claimed that many foreign fighters travelling to the Middle East are the offspring of those who arrived in Australia …
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Hungarian inmates build new anti-migrant fence on Serbian border
Hungarian prisoners have finished building the first part of a second anti-migrant fence on Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, state television reported on Monday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the plans for a second fence line in August to reinforce the existing barrier erected last year along the 175-kilometre-long (110-mile-long) border. The risk that the …
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France illegally deports refugee minors to Italy
France has illegally dispatched a number of minors and dozens of adults to Italy, rights groups and a lawyers’ union said on Saturday. The expulsions occurred after a group of youngsters requested protection and access to child services in Breil-sur-Roya, a town on the French-Italian border. The accusation was made by representatives of France’s Human …
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Far-right group attacks refugee camp on Greek island of ChiosImmigrants in Greece face winter crisis after public sector cuts
Dozens of people have been driven out of a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios after two successive nights of attacks by a far-right group. At least two people were wounded after attackers threw Molotov cocktails and rocks as big as boulders from elevated areas surrounding the Souda camp, activists said. Three tents …
100 Refugees feared drowned in Mediterranean Sea
Nearly 100 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boat capsized, an international aid organization said Thursday. According to a tweet by the Italian branch of aid group Doctors Without Borders, at least 27 refugees were rescued by coast guards early Thursday morning. The authorities retrieved seven bodies; at least …
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French far-right protesters storm migrant center, clash with police
After the resettlement of Calais refugees across France, anger among far-right groups has risen as protestors stormed the Brittany migrant center. Riot police used tear gas to restore order. Brittany village of Arzon in northwestern France witnessed violent anti-immigrant demonstrations on Monday, as protestors from local far-right groups clashed with riot police after they stormed …
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8 Germans charged with forming far-right terrorist group
Eight Germans have been charged with forming a far-right terrorist organization and carrying out bombing attacks on asylum-seeker facilities and left-wing political targets, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The seven men and one woman are accused of forming in 2015 the “Freital Group,” named after a suburb of the eastern city of Dresden that has seen …
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Right-wing asylum-related attacks rising in Germany
As hate crimes against migrants in Germany continue to rise, more than 450 attacks on German politicians and refugee helpers were registered this year, according to Federal Criminal Police (BKA) statistics published online Sunday by the weekly newspaper Zeit. Some 317 of these offenses were directed against politicians and 144 of them against workers in …
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