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Hundreds Of Migrants Arrive Back In Iraq On Flight From Belarus
Hundreds of Iraqis who failed to enter the EU from Belarus returned home Thursday, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Belarus's attempt to "weaponise migration" had to stop.
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'Let Them Die In A Bombing': Kerala Families Whose Members Joined ISIS
The aspiring jihadists began leaving here quietly in May, slipping away in twos and threes to avoid suspicion.
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Migrant Group Says 3,400 Dead or Missing So Far This Year
More than 3,400 migrants died or were recorded as missing as they tried to cross borders around the globe in the first five months of the year - over 80 percent of them trying to reach Europe by sea, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.
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700 Migrants Feared To Have Drowned In Mediterranean This Week: UN Refugee Agency
Up to 700 migrants are feared to have drowned in deadly shipwrecks off the coast of Libya this week, the UN's refugee agency said on Sunday, citing survivor testimony.
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A 12-Year-Old Syrian Migrant Wrote This Heartbreaking Letter To The King Of Sweden
As a school counselor in Malmo, Sweden, Pooja Sharafi has heard more than his fair share of suffering. Roughly one quarter of his kids at Sofielundsskolan are "new arrivals," meaning they came to Sweden in the past four years. Many of them fled wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya or Afghanistan. Many have gone through hell to get here.
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A Mosaic Of A Syrian Family's Flight
Interviews with 20 relatives, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Istanbul, in five German towns and by phone in Syria, tell a story of a family chewed up by one party to the Syrian conflict after another: the Syrian government, the Islamic State, neighboring countries, the West.
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European Union Must Limit Migrant Numbers: French Prime Minister
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday urged the European Union to limit the number of migrants it allows into the bloc, following heightened security concerns after the Paris attacks.
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Over 700,000 Migrants Reached Europe's Shores in 2015: United Nations
Some 562,355 people desperately fleeing war and misery reached Greece's shores, while around 140,000 arrived in Italy this year.
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EU Pushes to End Migrant Chaos With Balkans Plan
The EU on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.
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Finland Tightens Criteria for Granting Asylum to Iraqi Migrants
Finland has tightened its criteria for granting asylum to Iraqi migrants, the country's immigration authority said Tuesday, after deeming Iraq safer than before.
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Hundreds Of Migrants Arrive Back In Iraq On Flight From Belarus
Hundreds of Iraqis who failed to enter the EU from Belarus returned home Thursday, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Belarus's attempt to "weaponise migration" had to stop.
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'Let Them Die In A Bombing': Kerala Families Whose Members Joined ISIS
The aspiring jihadists began leaving here quietly in May, slipping away in twos and threes to avoid suspicion.
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Migrant Group Says 3,400 Dead or Missing So Far This Year
More than 3,400 migrants died or were recorded as missing as they tried to cross borders around the globe in the first five months of the year - over 80 percent of them trying to reach Europe by sea, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.
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700 Migrants Feared To Have Drowned In Mediterranean This Week: UN Refugee Agency
Up to 700 migrants are feared to have drowned in deadly shipwrecks off the coast of Libya this week, the UN's refugee agency said on Sunday, citing survivor testimony.
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A 12-Year-Old Syrian Migrant Wrote This Heartbreaking Letter To The King Of Sweden
As a school counselor in Malmo, Sweden, Pooja Sharafi has heard more than his fair share of suffering. Roughly one quarter of his kids at Sofielundsskolan are "new arrivals," meaning they came to Sweden in the past four years. Many of them fled wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya or Afghanistan. Many have gone through hell to get here.
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A Mosaic Of A Syrian Family's Flight
Interviews with 20 relatives, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Istanbul, in five German towns and by phone in Syria, tell a story of a family chewed up by one party to the Syrian conflict after another: the Syrian government, the Islamic State, neighboring countries, the West.
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European Union Must Limit Migrant Numbers: French Prime Minister
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday urged the European Union to limit the number of migrants it allows into the bloc, following heightened security concerns after the Paris attacks.
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Over 700,000 Migrants Reached Europe's Shores in 2015: United Nations
Some 562,355 people desperately fleeing war and misery reached Greece's shores, while around 140,000 arrived in Italy this year.
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EU Pushes to End Migrant Chaos With Balkans Plan
The EU on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.
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Finland Tightens Criteria for Granting Asylum to Iraqi Migrants
Finland has tightened its criteria for granting asylum to Iraqi migrants, the country's immigration authority said Tuesday, after deeming Iraq safer than before.
