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- Refugee claimants found in possession of child porn at Quebec border
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- Why It’s Far Too Early to Talk of Return for Syrian Refugees
- Karen Refugees Wary of Return to Myanmar as Despair Rises in Camps
- Canada military builds refugee camp for refugees from US
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Multiple refugee claimants have been found in possession of child pornography at or near the Quebec border crossing where an influx of hundreds of asylum seekers crossing from New York state has led the Canadian government to set up a border camp, Global News has learned. In a memorandum to officers of the Canadian Border Services Agency this week, […]
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Volunteers on a German refugee rescue ship say they have been deployed to help a far-right vessel that has become stranded in the Central Mediterranean. Sea-Eye said Italian officials had told their crew that the C-Star, operated by an anti-immigration group calling itself Defend Europe, had suffered a mechanical failure and could not manoeuvre. A spokesperson for the […]
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The Canadian military is building a camp to house the growing number of refugees crossing the US border, officials have said. The camp would house up to 500 asylum seekers in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, near Plattsburgh, New York. The construction begins about a week after Montreal turned its Olympic Stadium into a shelter for refugees arriving […]
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The New South Wales regional city of Armidale has volunteered to resettle 200 refugees from Iraq and Syria as part of Australia’s humanitarian migration program next year. The deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce announced the move – to his electorate – would begin from February next year. “Armidale is a good fit for a new regional settlement location for […]
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More refugees and migrants have been "deliberately drowned" by human smugglers for the second time in 24 hours off the coast of Yemen, according to the United Nations migration agency. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement late on Thursday that its staff found six bodies on the beach – two male and […]
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On the Thai-Myanmar border, refugees who fled one of the world’s longest civil wars live in limbo, with alarmingly high suicide rates. As their options for resettlement narrow, some are beginning to return to Myanmar and the challenges of reintegration. For an hour every night, a generator provides electricity to the refugee camp of Mae La […]
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The Canadian military is building a camp to house the growing number of refugees crossing the US border, officials have said. The camp would house up to 500 asylum seekers in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, near Plattsburgh, New York. The construction begins about a week after Montreal turned its Olympic Stadium into a shelter for refugees arriving […]
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The New South Wales regional city of Armidale has volunteered to resettle 200 refugees from Iraq and Syria as part of Australia’s humanitarian migration program next year. The deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce announced the move – to his electorate – would begin from February next year. “Armidale is a good fit for a new regional settlement location for […]
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More refugees and migrants have been "deliberately drowned" by human smugglers for the second time in 24 hours off the coast of Yemen, according to the United Nations migration agency. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement late on Thursday that its staff found six bodies on the beach – two male and […]
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In the wake of a leaked phone call in which US President Donald Trump repeatedly called them "bad" and "prisoners," refugees at the center of a controversial deal between the US and Australia say they have lost faith in ever making it to America. "We are really hopeless," said Shirdel Eskandari Khah, an Iranian refugee who lives with his […]
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An asylum seeker being held at an Australian detention camp on Manus Island has been found dead, hanging from a tree. Hamed Shamshiripour, a 31-year-old Iranian national, was found near the East Lorengau refugee transit center on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island on Monday. The Australian immigration department said it was aware of the death […]
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On the way back from a field trip to Lancaster Central Market, the students make a stop where there’s a world map on display and look for their homes. They take turns pointing out Afghanistan, Congo and Central African Republic. “Eric, where are you from?” asks Dominique Cressler, who is helping to guide the students […]
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The United Nations' refugee agency has accused the Federal Government of a breach of trust over the United States refugee deal, saying it has broken a promise to resettle refugees with close family ties to Australia. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, said the organization had "exceptionally" agreed to help resettle refugees […]
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Police have moved more than 2,000 refugees and migrants off the streets of Paris, where they had been sleeping rough for weeks in squalid and unsanitary conditions. Riot officers watched the refugees as they were bussed to temporary shelters in school gymnasiums on Friday morning. Hundreds of refugees and migrants had arrived in the Porte de la […]
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Many thousands of Eritreans have fled the country for Europe in search for a better life. A multinational initiative is now trying to stem the flow of migrants to Europe by training refugees and giving them jobs in neighboring Ethiopia. "I was not sure we would make it across. I am so relieved we are […]
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Multiple refugee claimants have been found in possession of child pornography at or near the Quebec border crossing where an influx of hundreds of asylum seekers crossing from New York state has led the Canadian government to set up a border camp, Global News has learned. In a memorandum to officers of the Canadian Border Services Agency this week, […]
