Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border. Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend[…]
OPINION by Robert Young Pelton – This summer a quarter of a million people fled across the Mediterranean by small ships and rafts. Lured by smugglers and forced onto discarded fishing boats, the migrants are directed to head north and call for help when they are past Libya’s Bouri oil[…]
A standoff at a train station between refugees and Hungarian riot police continues for a second day as hundreds refuse to go to a refugee centre. Mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees on Friday remain on and around a train in the town of Bicske which is located 30km west of[…]
A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and his two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while Hungary’s leader told Europeans they risk becoming a minority on their own continent. With desperation and anger deepening among people escaping conflict and poverty, around 300 migrants broke[…]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defence of Hungary’s response to the surge in refugees trying to enter the country. “I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large[…]
More than 182,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the British government does more to support refugees trying to seek asylum in the country, with the number of people registering their support continuing to rise rapidly. The parliamentary petition went viral on social media sites Facebook and Twitter on[…]
Deep divisions persist within the European Union as thousands of distraught refugees arriving from war-torn countries, mainly Syria, continued to head towards Western Europe via the continent’s southern frontiers. The French foreign minister on Monday criticised Hungary for its move to erect a fence on its border to stop people[…]
Austria said on Friday 71 refugees including a baby girl were found dead in an abandoned freezer truck, while Libya recovered the bodies of 82 migrants washed ashore after their overcrowded boat sank on its way to Europe and scores more were feared dead. The U.N. refugee agency said the[…]
As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked lorry in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border on Thursday, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discovery had shaken European leaders attending a Balkans summit. Police made the grisly discovery in the 7.5-tonne lorry stopped on the A4[…]
Rescuers have saved about 3,000 refugees but found more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya, according to the Italian coastguard. At least 55 bodies were discovered on Wednesday on three overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea, the coastguard said. Of them, 51 were found in the[…]
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