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  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +2 +1

    Refugees plead with Germans: don't suspect all of us

    Refugees in Berlin have pleaded with their host nation to avoid placing migrants under a blanket of suspicion after police commandos raided their shelter, which had been home to a man arrested over Monday night’s truck attack on a crowded Christmas market. “We are of course worried,” said Ibrahim Sufi, 26, a Syrian living in hangar 7 at the former Tempelhof airport, an imposing structure built by Adolf Hitler to showcase Nazi might and now being used to house migrants. “We are worried about how the German public will view us after this terrorist attack.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by messi
    0 +1

    MIGRANT SEGREGATION: German locals demand barrier taller than the BERLIN WALL is built

    Residents in Munich have been enraged by plans for a migrant shelter for teenagers in their neighbourhood, with seven locals taking local authorities to court over the proposal. The wall will be built in the Neuperlach district in the south of the city where authorities say it will protect the residents from the migrant inhabitants and, at four meters, will be higher than the Berlin Wall. But authorities have got cold feet over the barrier, with some officials saying it was larger than they had planned.

  • Video/Audio
    7 years ago
    by rti9
    +36 +1

    Refugee Crisis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

    Last Week Tonight covers an inappropriate analogy for the refugee crisis.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by everlost
    +21 +1

    Report: Refugees in Germany are often overqualified

    Some 71 percent of refugees in Germany are overqualified for their work, compared to an EU average of 60 percent, according to a working paper released on Wednesday by the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The figures were based on comparing the job requirements for refugees’ occupations to their actual qualifications. But when refugee workers were asked personally whether they felt they were overqualified, 54 percent in Germany said yes, compared to 57 percent EU-wide.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by LisMan
    +15 +1

    ‘I’ve Become a Racist’: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions Over Identity

    The thousands of Muslim asylum seekers pouring into Denmark have spawned a backlash, and questions over whether the country has a latent racial hostility at its core.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by zritic
    +35 +1

    Italy, Germany signal tougher stance on asylum seekers

    Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to step up efforts to send asylum seekers with no right to asylum in Europe back to their homelands. "All of us in Europe must work for the repatriation of those who do not have rights [to stay]," Mr Renzi said after a meeting with Ms Merkel.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by LisMan
    +24 +1

    Australia Treats Refugees Horribly. But Denmark Wants a Peek at That Playbook.

    A group of Danish parliamentarians won rare access to an Australian offshore detention center where abuse and exploitation are rampant.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by ppp
    +9 +1

    Police arrest 900 Syrians in England and Wales for crimes including rape and child abuse 

    And officials say the migrants were accused of sickening crimes including rapes and child abuse. Now critics say they are concerned that the thousands of Syrians entering Britain each year under resettlement schemes are being allowed to enter the country unchecked. Among those arrested are four Syrian immigrants have been charged after two 14-year-old girls were allegedly sexually assaulted - just yards from Newcastle United's stadium.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by weekendhobo
    +40 +1

    This is the Syrian family Texas tried to ban

    A judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Texas which sought to ban Syrian refugees from the state. Federal judge David Godbey said that the plaintiff, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, had failed to state a “plausible claim for relief”. Texas sued the US government and nonprofit organization International Rescue Committee (IRC) in December after it was notified that Dallas was to welcome six refugees - one family - from Syria.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by doodlegirl
    +7 +1

    Syrian refugee shot trying to enter Slovakia

    Slovakian border officials shot and wounded a Syrian refugee when they opened fired at a car carrying migrants from Hungary into Slovakia, authorities have said. The unidentified 26-year-old woman is thought to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet from her back, according to a hospital in Dunajska Streda, southern Slovakia. The hospital added it had also treated two other migrants suffering from dehydration. 

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +10 +1

    13 North Korean workers at foreign restaurant defect, Seoul officials say

    Thirteen North Koreans working at the same restaurant in a foreign country have defected to South Korea, Seoul officials said Friday. People working in North Korean-operated restaurants overseas have previously defected, but this is the first time multiple workers have escaped from the same restaurant, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon Hee told reporters in Seoul. North Korean defections are a bitter point of contention between the rival Koreas.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by 8mm
    +42 +1

    270,000 dead, 4.7 million refugees: Syria's war in numbers

    Syria's war has killed more than a quarter of a million people, uprooted over half the population and left much of the country in ruins since it erupted five years ago. Here are some key facts and figures on the conflict: The fighting has left more than 270,000 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor which relies on a large network of doctors and activist sources across the country.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by darvinhg
    +33 +1

    For Refugees, Russia Is the Purgatory to North Korea's Hell

    In 2008, Ryu En Nam, a North Korean defector, was extradited from Russia and executed. He was tied to the train going back to North Korea. “It was horrible. The train started moving and for as long as he could, Ryu En Nam ran with it,” human rights lawyer Lubov Tataretz said, recalling what a Korean diplomat’s son had told her, a few years after she tried and failed to prevent Ryu En Nam’s extradition. Under a recently signed treaty...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by geoleo
    +34 +1

    At Least 18 Refugees Drown After Boat Sinks Off Turkish Coast

    At least 18 people attempting to reach Greece drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast on Sunday, the state-run Anatolian Agency reported. The Turkish Coast Guard, using speedboats and a helicopter, rescued 15 people and recovered 18 bodies in the Aegean Sea near the town of Didim, it said. Efforts continued to find more victims whose nationalities were not given.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by aj0690
    +35 +1

    Canada Meets 25,000 Refugee Resettlement Target

    Canada's Immigration Minister said the country has reached a significant milestone. Canada has reached its target of resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees, the country’s Immigration Minister John McCallum said Monday. McCallum was at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday to receive the last two flights of refugees arriving under the Canadian government’s $500 million resettlement program, reports the Associated Press.

  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by AdelleChattre
    +24 +1

    This racist backlash against refugees is the real crisis in Europe

    The European coalition of the inhumane – contriving to trap refugees in Greece – cannot go on. A humanitarian evacuation plan is urgently needed. By Apostolis Fotiadis.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by ubthejudge
    +20 +1

    Fear of becoming 'strangers in our own country,' fuels German anti-migrant protest

    Every Monday evening in Dresden, thousands gather in front of the city's Opera House. They carry German flags and sing nationalist songs with one goal: to stop refugees and migrants from coming to Germany. Thomas is one of them and this Monday he held a placard with a photoshopped picture of Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in a Muslim headscarf. He didn't want to give his last name but he told CNN he fears Germany's traditions are being eroded by Muslim migrants.

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by TNY
    +31 +1

    Is this the most controversial magazine cover about the migrant crisis?

    The right-wing Polish weekly magazine wSieci (The Network) has caused outrage with its latest front cover. The publication features the image of a white woman, draped with the European Union flag, screaming as she is being groped and assaulted by dark skinned male arms. Twitter users have compared the images with fascist propaganda in Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, which used images of women being attacked by...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by zyery
    +28 +1

    Finnish PM drops promise to let refugees use his home

    Finland’s prime minister, Juha Sipila, has said he will not be able fulfil a promise to put up a family of asylum seekers. Sipila, a former telecoms executive, prompted controversy in September by saying he would open his second home in northern Finland to refugees. ‘Refugees are warm, emotional people. There’s a lot we can learn’ But on Sunday he told public YLE radio that he had had to put the plan on hold because of security concerns...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by TNY
    +25 +1

    Sweden 'to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum-seekers'

    Sweden expects to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected, its interior minister was quoted as saying. Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years. "We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish media quoted him as saying. Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.