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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced the appointment of Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi as the new UN refugee chief, tasked with handling the...
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Sumte (population 102) will house 750 refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan, under directives from regional lawmakers. The first wave of refugees, about 500...
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The first wave of refugees, about 500 people, arrived in Sumte Nov. 2 following a controversial decision by regional lawmakers. Sumte’s mayor, Christian Fabel,...
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Abdullah Waez and other Syrian refugees say they’re too frightened to live in the Swedish woods, where they’ve been offered free housing while their...
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For two years, Syrian teenager Ibrahim scraped together a paltry living selling lottery tickets and tissues on the crowded streets of Beirut, but that...
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Sweden will receive up to 190,000 migrants this year, mostly from Syria — more than double previous estimates, the country’s Migration Agency announced Oct....
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Working at home or huddled together in cafés, women of all ages across Spain have furiously knitted hundreds of blankets to send to war-torn...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday mocked the EU’s contribution to easing the Syrian refugee crisis, saying the bloc had been awarded the...
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More than 613,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the year and more than 3,100 have died...
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Australia said Friday it is in talks with the Philippines to send refugees there, but refused to confirm reports of a Aus$150 million (US$109...