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- For a few refugees, safe passage to Europe
- As US hits refugee cap, bishops ask Trump administration to do more
- How refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
- Trump travel ban suffers fresh setback as Hawaii judge rules more refugees must be allowed into US
- Justin Trudeau Meets Namesake, His Parents Are Syrian Refugees In Canada
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ROME — The sun has yet to rise when Ayman, his wife Rawia and his three daughters and at the Fiumicino airport in Rome. Rawia carries her youngest in her arms from the airplane to the terminal. Around them, passengers rush toward the gates. Their arrival is part of the humanitarian corridors project, an effort […]
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Washington D.C., Jul 16, 2017, / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With the United States government’s cap on refugees having been reached for the year, the nation's bishops have issued a plea to the Trump administration to increase the limit in a time of a global refugee crisis. “Now, these vulnerable populations will not be able […]
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By Jarrod Ormiston, Maastricht University While on the run from war, persecution and natural disasters, refugees are actually helping others in their situation. They are creating organizations and enterprises that train and offer jobs to fellow refugees, giving them a fresh start. And it's these enterprises that are also helping countries to overcome some of the challenges of economic […]
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A court decision on President Donald Trump's travel ban has reopened a window for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the United States, and the government is looking to quickly close it. The administration said on Friday it would appeal directly to the US Supreme Court after a federal judge in Hawaii ordered it to allow in refugees formally working […]
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When a Syrian couple, refugees in Canada, named their newborn son after the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, they only hoped their child would be able to meet his famous namesake one day. On Saturday, that wish came true. Baby Justin Trudeau (yes, that's his his first name) met the Canadian Prime Minister. Adorable pictures of Justin […]
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ROME — The sun has yet to rise when Ayman, his wife Rawia and his three daughters and at the Fiumicino airport in Rome. Rawia carries her youngest in her arms from the airplane to the terminal. Around them, passengers rush toward the gates. Their arrival is part of the humanitarian corridors project, an effort […]
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A court decision on President Donald Trump's travel ban has reopened a window for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the United States, and the government is looking to quickly close it. The administration said on Friday it would appeal directly to the US Supreme Court after a federal judge in Hawaii ordered it to allow in refugees formally working […]
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When a Syrian couple, refugees in Canada, named their newborn son after the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, they only hoped their child would be able to meet his famous namesake one day. On Saturday, that wish came true. Baby Justin Trudeau (yes, that's his his first name) met the Canadian Prime Minister. Adorable pictures of Justin […]
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One in 40. This is the dreadful death rate facing refugees attempting the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy in overloaded rubber dinghies. It has trebled since late 2015 when European search and rescue efforts in the central Mediterranean were much more concerted and coordinated. It’s the shameful product of Europe’s pitiful response to the growing refugee […]
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Anti-globalisation protesters involved in a third consecutive night of clashes with police in Hamburg are ‘crazy’, according to some refugees in the city. Police used water cannon trucks against rioters, who hurled iron rods and pavement blocks at authorities, even after G20 leaders had left the city. “If people did this in Egypt they would be shot,” said […]
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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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Thousands of children are languishing in “dangerous and harrowing” conditions in detention centres across south-east Asia, a report has revealed. Children, including babies, are being held in cells 24 hours a day, alongside dozens of unrelated adults, and are frequently separated from family members. More than 2,290 young refugees were being held without proper access to […]
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Syrian refugees sponsored by private groups such as churches and charities are five times more likely than those sponsored by the Trudeau government to have found work in Canada, the Toronto Sun has learned. According to a January 2017 ministerial briefing document from the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), all Syrian refugees […]
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Within 24 hours of the leaders of the G7 nations leaving Taormina, Sicily, the designer shops and sleek bars of the hilltop town were once again teeming with tourists. Hardly any trace of the summit remained, just some flags on the town hall, a half-dismantled stage in the Roman amphitheatre, a sign for a French […]
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ROME — The sun has yet to rise when Ayman, his wife Rawia and his three daughters and at the Fiumicino airport in Rome. Rawia carries her youngest in her arms from the airplane to the terminal. Around them, passengers rush toward the gates. Their arrival is part of the humanitarian corridors project, an effort […]
