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- Emmanuel Macron to tell Theresa May to take more child refugees in face-to-face meeting
- UK expands cash transfers to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
- Trump to cut millions from UN agency for Palestinian refugees – officials
- Conditions are horrific at Greece’s ‘island prisons’ for refugees. Is that the point?
- Palestinian refugees live in fear of Trump aid cuts
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Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]
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Chris Giles in London YESTERDAY 6 Britain’s department for international development is expanding a controversial programme that delivers support to the poor in developing countries via cashpoints to improve the effectiveness of the £13bn aid budget. Despite criticism from fellow conservatives that cash transfers are the equivalent of exporting the dole, the project is close […]
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The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year’s first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely and making additional donations contingent on major changes to the organization, US officials said. Donald Trump has not made a final decision but appears more […]
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The first thing you notice is the smell: the stench from open-pit latrines mingling with the odor of thousands of unwashed bodies and the acrid tang of olive trees being burned for warmth. Then there are the sounds: Children hacking like old men. Angry shouts as people joust for food. And, finally, the sights: Thin, shivering […]
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Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Palestinians living in refugee camps have expressed deep alarm over US threats to potentially cut funding for a relief agency tasked with providing aid and services to them. For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has been the lifeline to the more than five million registered […]
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Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]
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Chris Giles in London YESTERDAY 6 Britain’s department for international development is expanding a controversial programme that delivers support to the poor in developing countries via cashpoints to improve the effectiveness of the £13bn aid budget. Despite criticism from fellow conservatives that cash transfers are the equivalent of exporting the dole, the project is close […]
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The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year’s first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely and making additional donations contingent on major changes to the organization, US officials said. Donald Trump has not made a final decision but appears more […]
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The first thing you notice is the smell: the stench from open-pit latrines mingling with the odor of thousands of unwashed bodies and the acrid tang of olive trees being burned for warmth. Then there are the sounds: Children hacking like old men. Angry shouts as people joust for food. And, finally, the sights: Thin, shivering […]
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Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Palestinians living in refugee camps have expressed deep alarm over US threats to potentially cut funding for a relief agency tasked with providing aid and services to them. For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has been the lifeline to the more than five million registered […]
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Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]
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Between 90 and 100 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya. The inflatable boat was carrying more than 100 people when it went down off the eastern city of Khoms on Tuesday, said Ayub Qasim, a spokesman for Libya’s coastguard. Rescuers found just 17 survivors […]
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By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Samiullah Abdullah, 12, is among the several thousand grandchildren of the Afghan war, who are seeking refuge in Pakistan. His parents were born in Pakistan in the 1980s, when then Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in what followed a nine-year-long war. “I have never been to Afghanistan. I know nothing about […]
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undocumented migrants and refugees were held in northwestern Edirne province on Dec. 30, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, citing a security official. The migrants and refugees were from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Morocco, India and Bangladesh, trying to cross into Europe illegally, the agency reported, citing the official who asked not to be named due to restrictions […]
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After a year that has seen them subjected to a brutal Burmese military crackdown described as “ethnic cleansing” by the UN and US, Rohingya Muslim refugees face the prospect of a concerning new development in 2018 across the border in Bangladesh. Conditions in the camps of Cox’s Bazar continue to deteriorate as more Rohingya arrive, and those trapped here have one […]
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Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]
