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We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Germany reaching a migrant return deal with Greece, a U.S. court sanctioning a plan to reunite separated families and unrest in a Brazilian border town forcing out Venezuelans.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Peru and Ecuador tightening entry rules for Venezuelans, Merkel saying Germany will step up deportations and U.S. refugee vetting under attack after an ISIS suspect is arrested.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Russia and Lebanon pushing a Syrian returns agenda, an ad hoc deal allowing the Aquarius to dock in Malta and an Australian senator invoking the ‘final solution’ in call for a plebiscite on Muslims.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including charity warns Med ships not responding to distress calls, Merkel finds migration ally in Spain’s Sanchez and D.R. Congo refugees being screened for Ebola.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Ecuador’s state of emergency on its northern border, a fatal shipwreck off Turkey and Spain agreeing to accept migrants returned from Germany.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a new report blaming the E.U. for migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Bangladesh calling out Myanmar over Rohingya failures and a Brazilian judge reopening the border with Venezuela.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a Russian proposal for U.S. coordination in Syria, Germany’s botched Afghan deportation and a Trump administration official’s effort to dismantle the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency.
We review the latest issues relating to refugees, including Colombia granting hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees residency, Germany lifting the family reunification block and Australia threatening to leave the Global Compact for Migration.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Costa Rica in need of help to respond to Nicaragua refugees, aid groups blaming Italy for return of rescued migrants to Libya, and Russia pushing Syrian returns plan with Turkey.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Tunisia offering port to a boat stranded at sea, deaths at sea off Turkey’s coast and an Australian inquest into an asylum seeker’s death.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.S. missing a court deadline to reunite separated families, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees announcing job cuts and hundreds storming a border fence to a Spanish enclave.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Russia and Lebanon discussing the mass return of Syrians, the U.K. cap on child refugees being challenged in court and the U.S. northern border seeing a spike in illegal crossings.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a Russian proposal for Syrian returns, protest in Bavaria against the ‘politics of fear’ and a rescue charity pursuing a complaint over deaths off Libya’s coast.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including E.U. court action against Hungary, protests marking an Australian offshoring anniversary, and U.S. deporting victims of crime despite special visas.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the Libyan coast guard leaving a woman and child to die, refugee children being denied schooling on Greek islands and a German minister in a row over illegal deportation.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the European Union haggling over migrants stranded on a rescue ship, border outrage disguising the real Trump agenda and the German foreign minister invoking Jewish refugees to tweak consciences.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the suicide of a young Afghan deportee from Germany, the U.S. reportedly extending restrictions on asylum, and the U.K. reinstating legal aid for unaccompanied children.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.S. demanding credit for UNHCR work in return for funding, negative attitudes to migrants falling sharply in the U.K., and a judge threatening to fine the government over U.S. border separations.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Syrians at the Jordan border returning home or fleeing again, German protests to support NGO rescues and France’s constitutional court ruling on a farmer’s aid to migrants.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.S. renewing Temporary Protected Status for Yemenis, the U.N. human rights chief warning Rohingya returnees were arrested by Myanmar and a second NGO rescue boat reaching port in Spain.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a U.S. judge ruling against the blanket detention of asylum seekers, a compromise deal in Germany with large potential repercussions in Europe and the U.N., and World Bank chiefs’ visit to refugees in Bangladesh.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the German coalition being on the brink despite E.U. summit deal, Jordan seeking Syria truce to avert border crisis and rescue ships held in Malta as more people drown.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including an E.U. migration summit ending with a vague statement, South Korea channeling Trump to strand asylum seekers and Israel planning to prevent Syrian refugees crossing the border.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Trump’s travel ban, donors pledging funds to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees and Portugal and France offering to take in passengers of a stranded rescue ship.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including more rescue boats stranded in the Mediterranean, Jordan warning it cannot handle a new wave of refugees, and the U.S. president’s call to end due process for irregular immigrants.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including U.S. military bases prepare to shelter up to 20,000 immigrant children, 220 people drown off Libya and E.U. admits it has no African partners for ‘disembarkation platforms.’
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Trump caving in to mounting pressure over family separation, harrowing audio and images of children driving surge in donations, and Merkel looking to emergency E.U. meeting to rescue coalition.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the number of displaced people hitting a new high for the fifth year, Spain’s plans to reinstate free healthcare for undocumented migrants, and a draft E.U. statement reacting to politics in Italy and Germany.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Spain offering 45-day permit to Aquarius arrivals, Merkel pushing for an E.U. emergency meeting over migration and the White House being panned over child separations and detention.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the difficulty of fleeing the battle in the Yemeni port Hodeidah, Colombian figures showing the scale of Venezuela’s exodus, and Pope Francis urging a “change in mindset” in response to refugees and migrants.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the E.U. ‘axis of the willing’ seeking a hard-line shift on asylum, a worsening spat between Italy and France over Mediterranean rescues, and a Lebanon minister deepening a row with UNHCR over Syrian returns.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including another Mediterranean shipwreck as Europe argues over NGO rescues, the first monsoon rains cause destruction and casualties in Rohingya camps and France closing another informal camp.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.S. attorney general narrowing grounds for asylum, Spain offering safe harbor to hundreds of people turned away by Italy and Malta, and a Rohingya advocate awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a political tussle in Italy and mayor defying Salvini over rescue ship, German conservatives urging faster deportations in response to murder case and refugee haven Jordan facing economic crisis.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Turkey suspending its bilateral migrant returns deal with Greece, Lebanon’s foreign minister threatening UNHCR over Syrian returns and the U.N. Security Council sanctioning Libyans accused of trafficking.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including dozens of Ethiopians drowning off the coast of Yemen, Myanmar signing a deal with U.N. agencies for future returns and the German state of Bavaria’s migration deportation plans.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the U.N. urging the U.S. to stop separating migrant children from their parents, a migrant worker strike in southern Italy, and Greece warning Kurds to return to the Moria refugee center.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Italy’s new interior minister vowing a crackdown on immigration, fresh allegations in Germany’s asylum office scandal, and the death toll rising from a shipwreck off Tunisia’s coast.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including dozens of deaths in two Mediterranean shipwrecks, an anti-immigration party winning Slovenia’s election and French authorities closing down more informal camps in Paris.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a deal between Myanmar and two U.N. agencies to prepare for Rohingya returns, Lebanon’s plan to return refugees as international aid dwindles, and asylum seekers wounded crossing the Croatia-Bosnia border.
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