Spain has made agreements with Morocco about the partial withdrawal of refugees who are rescued at sea between the countries. So far, all refugees on their way to Spain in the...
The situation of thousands of Venezuelan refugees on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire is so harrowing that the Dutch Red Cross wants to scale up aid to these people as soon as possible. There is…
The police arrested three Iraqi refugees who wanted to commit an attack in Germany. They had already collected gunpowder from flares and would have ordered an ignition in Groot...
The situation of refugees on the Greek islands is threatening to deteriorate further by approaching winter weather. This is what Oxfam Novib warns, which says that the temperature will fall below the...
The arrival of several hundred boat people has caused a crisis in British politics. Minister of the Interior Sajid Javid had to interrupt his safari in South Africa. He…
The British government has recalled two patrol vessels from the Mediterranean for patrols in the English Channel. That is what the British Interior Minister Sajid Javid said on Monday night in...
In Germany a large scam with travel documents of refugees has been discovered.
Bashar al-Assad goes with a big smile 2019. The Syrian dictator, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees and countless poison gas attacks, is becoming internationally...
Two of the three refugees are, according to the German Employment Office (BA), dependent on a social assistance benefit. Among them are also many children and people who have a job, but...
In order to better address asylum and migration challenges, the EU Member States and the European Parliament must rapidly adopt a series of legislative proposals. The European Commission makes this call. According to Vice-President Frans Timmermans, this is 'essential for a sustainable and future-proof asylum and migration system.'
Due to the influx of migrants who want to travel to the United States, a humanitarian crisis has arisen in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. That says Juan Manuel Gastélum, the mayor of Tijuana. He asks the United Nations for assistance in supplying food and other relief goods to migrants.
Certainly 631 African migrants died this year when they tried to reach Spain via the sea. That number is nearly three times as large as last year and the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) calls the situation alarming.
In an attack by Muslim rebels in a refugee camp in the Central African Republic (CAR) at least 42 people were killed. In the camp, located near a Catholic mission in the city of Alindao, about 20,000 refugees resided. According to a United Nations spokesman, thousands of them fled when the rebels set the camp on fire.
The Public Prosecution Service in Brussels demands twelve to forty months in prison against eight people who have given shelter to refugees. According to the prosecutor's office, they knowingly and knowingly helped people smugglers. They themselves say they only wanted to help people who had fled war zones.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada apologized for sending a ship with Jews in 1939. The then government sent a boat away with Jews who wanted to escape the Nazis.
For the island of Malta, 149 refugees were rescued in the Mediterranean on Tuesday. The group was in a big dinghy, which had been 'in trouble' about 60 nautical miles from Malta, the Maltese forces said.
North Korean women are powerless against sexual violence by government officials. Unwanted sexual behavior occurs even so often that it is seen as a normal phenomenon in daily life in the isolated dictatorship, concludes Human Rights Watch after talks with dozens of displaced North Koreans.
The Hungarian camerawoman who fired refugees in the border area with Serbia was acquitted by the Supreme Court. Pictures of the incident went over the world at the time. A court later sentenced the woman to a conditional sentence for disruption of public order.
Actress Angelina Jolie visited a camp with Venezuelan refugees in the Peruvian capital Lima on Tuesday. She did this as a UN ambassador to draw attention to the dire situation in which more than 2.6 million Venezuelans are now displaced.
The German police have freed five refugees who were transported in a Polish refrigerated van and were in trouble. The migrants themselves were alarmed by the French police via a mobile phone. That happened just before the vehicle was driven from France Germany, according to German media Tuesday.
The South Korean authorities have rejected the asylum application from hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers. They had traveled to the popular Jeju island because they could go there without a visa. That measure was actually intended to attract more vacationers.
The German authorities have established the identity of the hostage taker who was arrested in Cologne. It is a 55-year-old Syrian refugee. The man is still in a coma, but according to the police is no longer in danger of life.
Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.
Nineteen migrants were killed in western Turkey when the truck they were in was crashing. Five people were injured according to Turkish media, including the truck driver.
In Berlin, according to the organization of a demonstration against racism, about 240,000 people went into the state. That is much more than the organization had expected, because in advance only 40,000 people had signed up. The police did not want to say anything about attendance figures.
For the 1,200 children who have been stranded in Greece without family or other adult assistance from outside the EU, the European Commission will make 24.1 million euros available. The money is intended for 'child-friendly' accommodation and for teaching unaccompanied minor migrants and refugees.
The Maltese forces have picked up 120 migrants from a boat on the Mediterranean. The refugees in distress were accidentally discovered during a routine check-up off the coast of Malta, let the army of the Mediterranean island know. It is expected that the crew will be brought ashore on Sunday.
Certainly 34 migrants have been drowned by a shipwreck in the west of the Mediterranean. 26 people survived the disaster. The International Organization for Migration has announced this on the basis of, among others, the Moroccan navy.
Approximately 14,000 people came to Hamburg on Saturday to take part in a parade against racism. An alliance of over 450 groups, including Sea-Watch and Laut gegen Nazis, had called for the trip under the motto United against racism.
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
