Syrian refugees to be housed in Archbishop of Canterbury's LUXURY Lambeth palace The refugee family are currently living in a cottage at Archbishop Welby's official London residence after the Church agreed to put them up and fund their new life in Britain. The Archbishop is going to be directly involved in helping the...
The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This represents one in every 113 people on the planet, the UN agency says....
U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters. The operation would likely be the largest deportation sweep targeting...
Twice in the past two weeks, dozens, if not hundreds, of people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea — but in both those cases, not one of them was Syrian. For the past year, the world has been largely focused on the rafts filled with refugees from Syria's civil war that have traveled incessantly from Turkey to the...
BARACK Obama has vowed to let in 10,000 Syrian refugees to the US by the end of the year despite widespread fears that jihadis could also sneak into the country. The US president last night promised to let in the desperate refugees in a bid to tackle the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. He said he is "going...
The Afghan government is finalizing agreements with some European member states and the European Union to handle the return of Afghan refugees, currently in limbo in Greece. The full details of the memoranda of understanding have yet to be announced, but Afghan officials have told that the Afghan government will seek support...
The Latest on European efforts to respond to the wave of migration (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Defense ministers from Croatia and Albania say the two countries will work together to prevent possible opening of a new migrant corridor through their territories after Balkan nations closed their borders. Croatia's Defense...
When the first boatload of deported migrants arrived Monday at the Turkish port of Dikili, a small group of Turkish human rights activists turned up to welcome them. Turkey is expecting to receive another shipment of 200 migrants deported from Greece on Friday, as part of the deal reached in March between the European...
Under heavy security, authorities on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios deported 202 refugees on boats bound for Turkey — the first to be sent back as part of a controversial European Union plan to limit the amount of migration to Europe. The operation that started at dawn, as refugees were escorted onto small ferries...
We were drinking after Chimbulak skiing with a couple of Spanish friends. We talked among other things about the immigration of Syrian refugees and about the disappearing of the good old Europe. It is understandable why you would not welcome the refugees and other marginalized immigrants. It is believed that by their...
Yousif Shikhmous had such high hopes of starting a new life in Germany that when his son was born, the Syrian refugee named him Merkkel. Only four months later, Shikhmous has seen all those dreams shattered after he and his family boarded what has become known as "The Last Train to Europe." The group of about 400...
A Republican lawmaker has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives requiring Syrian and Iraqi refugees take lie detector tests before entering the US. Ken Calvert (R-California) is also proposing that potential refugees submit DNA tests. “It has become all too clear to many Americans that our security...