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The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
The Fugees' official music video for 'Fu-gee-la'.
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Accommodating asylum seekers
Germany expects 800,000 asylum seekers to arrive before the end of this year. One of the biggest challenges lies in providing them with suitable accommodation. Some companies specialize in just that.
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Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an island for refugees
An Egyptian billionaire has offered a plan to help ease the pressure on European nations facing a crush of refugees seeking asylum: He'll buy them an island of their own.
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The refugee crisis is a portent
The real story about national and international security is climate change. The 2006 Stern Review, which was the most comprehensive study ever undertaken to assess the economic consequences of climate change, estimated there would be some 200 million climate refugees by the middle of this century. That number now looks conservative.
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Tweets From Hell: How Peter Bouckaert Shares Refugees' Hope and Despair
The human rights researcher has humanized Europe's refugee crisis by sharing families' stories on Facebook and Twitter.
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State Dept. Official Wants 'Steep' Increase in Syrian Refugees Admitted to U.S.
The U.S. has committed to bringing in 10,000 refugees over the next year.
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U.S. Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows
The Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the United States accepts each year to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. “This step that I am announcing today, I believe, is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Mr. Kerry said, adding that it “will be...
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Migrant crisis: EU ministers approve disputed quota plan
EU interior ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent over the next two years. It will see migrants moved from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other EU countries. Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary voted against accepting mandatory quotas. After the vote, Slovakia's prime minister said he would not accept the new quotas.
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Migrants are disguising themselves as Syrians to enter Europe
Moving among the tens of thousands of Syrian war refugees passing through the train stations of Europe are many who are neither Syrian nor refugees, but hoping to blend into the mass migration and find a back door to the West. There are well-dressed Iranians speaking Farsi who insist they are members of the persecuted Yazidis of Iraq. There are Indians who don’t speak Arabic but say they are from Damascus.
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Jews 'no longer feel safe' in Europe and mass exodus increasing as a result of surge in anti-Semitic incidents
The current influx of refugees into Europe could be mirrored by a mass exodus of Jews, faith leaders have warned as new figures revealed a rise in anti-Semitic incidents over the past year. European Jewish Congress President Dr Moshe Kantor told a conference in Brussels: “If hundreds of thousands of Jews leave the EU, which is becoming a very strong possibility, then it too will be judged a failure,” he said. “Over the past few years...
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A small town in Slovakia held a vote on accepting refugees; 97 percent said no.
The next act of the European refugee crisis will unfold in little places like this one, where hundreds of Syrian war refugees are coming to live in a town that just voted by overwhelming numbers to oppose their stay. Over the past few days, the first of 500 Syrian asylum seekers arrived to take up three-month residency at a state-run dormitory in the center of town.
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Kickstarter Launches Drive To Raise Funds Supporting Refugees
If you have an idea for a film or an invention but you don't have the money to do, Kickstarter may be an option. But if you're trying to handle the most complex humanitarian crisis since World War II, well, the White House thinks Kickstarter could help there too. This week, the crowdfunding site broke its own rules after being approached by the White House. It launched its first-ever charitable drive to help with the refugee crisis.
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Torn apart: The Smuggler and My Baby
Syrians leaving their homes for the safety of Europe often rely on people smugglers to help them reach their destination. But it's impossible to know who to trust and things can go wrong.
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Syrian refugee family calls Detroit home
The Governor of Michigan says his state should take more refugees in but not everyone agrees. Bisi Onlie-Ere reports.
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Most Russians believe Europe should send migrants home after war ends
According to latest opinion polls, most Russians maintain European nations shouldn’t reject migrants from the Middle East and Africa, but also that the refugees should go back home after the end of wars and terrorist attacks in their countries.
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Ten Borders
One refugee’s epic escape from Syria. By Nicholas Schmidle.
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Disappointed migrants 'too frightened' to live in Swedish woods
When he fled the war in Syria, Abdullah Waez dreamed of a new life in Sweden. Waez and 52 other asylum seekers were shocked when migration officials brought them by bus to their new accommodation on Sunday: a cluster of red wooden cabins in a forest in the village of Limedsforsen, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Stockholm.
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Syria rebels using caged captives as 'human shields'
A major Syrian rebel group is using dozens of captives in metal cages as "human shields" in the largest opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said Sunday. Jaish al-Islam, regarded as the most powerful rebel group near the capital, has put regime soldiers and Alawite civilians it was holding in metal cages, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. The group then placed these cages in public squares in the Eastern Ghouta region in an attempt to...
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Paris attacks: Second terrorist named as Ahmed Almuhamed 'was posing as Syrian refugee'
At least one of the terrorists behind the deaths of 129 people in Paris sneaked into France posing as a Syrian refugee, it has been claimed. Serbian media last night reported French authorities had found a passport belonging to Syrian Ahmed Almuhamed at the scene of the attack at the Stade de France. According to the newspaper, Blic , the 25-year-old had arrived on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 on his way to Paris.
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What to do about Syrian refugees? Novak Djokovic just nailed it.
The Serbian tennis star knows what it's like to live through war.
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