(AP) Europe continued its decade-old struggle Thursday to devise a migration system that would both better protect its extensive borders and avoid tragedies like last month’s shipwreck off Italy, which killed at least 70 migrants. Interior ministers from the European Union’s 27 […]
(Politico) The European Union warned Britain its crackdown on Channel migrant crossings violates international law — as the U.K. urged it to read the details. In an interview with POLITICO in Brussels, European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said she had spoken […]
(AFP) France and Britain are working on a new deal to thwart migrants crossing the Channel, which could be agreed at a summit between leaders Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak later this week, a French official said Wednesday. Macron is set to […]
(BBC) A new law set to go before Parliament later will introduce new measures aimed at removing migrants entering the UK on small boats. The Illegal Migration Bill is set to prevent those arriving illegally from claiming asylum, and will block them […]
(AP) Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union countries on the Mediterranean Sea pushed back Saturday against their northern neighbors for not accepting asylum-seekers under a voluntary relocation initiative. The ministers responsible for migration policy […]
(BBC) A Muslim preacher who was close to the Manchester bomber had been suspected by MI5 of radicalising people more than a decade earlier, the BBC can reveal. A public inquiry into the atrocity will this week report on how Salman Abedi […]
(AP) A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters. Officials feared the death […]
(AP) A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat. Police said the suspect was arrested after the migrants identified […]
(Reuters) Italy’s parliament on Thursday passed into law a government decree establishing a code of conduct for migrant charity ships, despite criticism from the United Nations and humanitarian groups that it will imperil lives. The new set of rules is part of […]
(AP) A German court on Thursday convicted a Palestinian man from Syria of a war crime and murder for launching a grenade into a crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus in 2014. He was sentenced to life in prison. The […]
(National-UAE) The Home Office plans to fast-track thousands of asylum cases from a handful of countries, including Syria and Yemen, as the backlog of people waiting for an initial decision climbs to almost 161,000. About 12,000 asylum seekers from nations that have […]
(Jewish News) The founder of a grant-making foundation sponsoring Muslim students through university has appealed to the Jewish community to help persuade the government to recognise the UN’s annual Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March. Asif Aziz, a businessman who established […]
(AP) More than 8,400 Europe-bound migrants perished at sea while attempting to cross the Mediterranean over the past four years, a charity said Tuesday. Save the Children said in a report that about a half million people crossed or attempted to cross […]
(AP) He had been brought from the battlefields of Syria to a New York lockup, a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group. And even in jail, Ruslan Maratovich kept a makeshift version […]
(AP) Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday denounced activists who burned the Quran and hanged an effigy of Turkey’s president in Stockholm as “useful idiots” for foreign powers who want to inflict harm on the Scandinavian country as it seeks to […]
(CTV) When “Asiya” first heard that the Canadian government had agreed to repatriate women and children from detention camps in northeast Syria, she felt that safety was within grasp for her family — only to have those hopes dashed a few days […]
(Yle) Police in Finland would not allow a public burning of the Koran, as has occurred recently in Sweden and Denmark, according to the National Police Board. Finnish law stipulates that violating religious peace is a punishable offence, the police board said […]
(AFP) France has repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in a prison camp for suspected jihadists in Syria, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, in the third major return of French citizens from the country. Rights groups have been pressing for years […]
(Middle East Eye) The mother of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man held among suspected Islamic State group (IS) fighters in prison in northeast Syria, has hailed Canada’s decision to repatriate him along with 22 other of its citizens. Speaking to Middle East Eye, Sally […]
(AP) Greece prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, an official said Saturday. Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos was speaking to ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom as he guided […]
(CTV) The Canadian government has agreed to bring home six Canadian women and 13 children currently detained in prison camps in northeast Syria, according to Lawrence Greenspon, the lawyer representing them in a federal court case. Most of the Canadians have been […]
(Anadolu) Greece’s Turkish minority sent a letter Tuesday to the UN’s special rapporteur on minority issues about problems it is facing. The letter was sent by the Friendship and Equality Party (DEB) and was supported by numerous minority religious, educational, and civil […]
(AP) Greece’s migration minister says the number of migrants arriving in Greece has dropped dramatically over the past two years, while the number of asylum-seekers living in the country has also fallen. Speaking Tuesday at an event marking the third anniversary of […]
(AFP) A Madrid court ordered two Spanish women who married Islamic State (IS) fighters remanded in custody Wednesday on terror-related charges after they were flown back from Syrian detention camps with 13 children, legal documents showed. They arrived at Torrejon de Ardoz […]
(AP) The Paris prosecutor said investigators haven’t yet been able to identify the attacker who wounded six people with a sharp metallic hook in the French capital’s Gare du Nord train station on Wednesday before being shot and wounded by police. The […]
(Canadian Press) A lawyer for citizens detained in northern Syria who want to return to Canada says the federal government will continue to create obstacles and reverse decisions unless it is ordered to bring them home. The Federal Court heard final arguments […]
(AFP) Twenty charities on Thursday slammed new rules on rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean introduced by Italy’s right-wing government, saying they go against international law and will result in more deaths. Under the new decree, which came into effect this week, charity […]
(Sky News) A record 45,728 people crossed the English Channel to the UK on small boats in 2022, up more than 60% on the previous year as migrants continue to risk their lives making the dangerous journey. The perils of the deep […]
(AP) Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three other border guards set out on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural frontier between Greece and Turkey. The route takes them through a maze […]
(AFP) If the UK government has its way, the tens of thousands of migrants arriving on England’s southeastern shores each year, after crossing the Channel in small boats, will face swift deportation to Rwanda. Although the controversial plan is on hold amid […]
(AFP) Cyprus on Monday transferred 48 asylum seekers to Germany under a voluntary pilot scheme that will eventually see 500 relocated to help cope with a surge in migrants, authorities said. The Cypriot interior ministry said the 48 applicants for international protection […]
(BBC) The government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled. The court ruled on Monday that the scheme did not breach the UN’s Refugee Convention or human rights laws. But the cases of eight asylum seekers […]
(AP) Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Days before the 38-year-old Syrian Kurd was to begin the […]
(BBC) Plans to ban migrants from claiming asylum in the UK will save lives, the home secretary has insisted. Suella Braverman said a new law preventing illegal entrants from applying would deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats. She added […]
(BBC) William Barr was the US attorney general who announced the charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago, on the 32nd anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing — the deadliest terror attack ever on UK soil. He also announced the charges against […]
(Middle East Eye) In 2006, then-Navy officer Ron DeSantis was an appointed attorney supporting the US military’s mission at Guantanamo Bay. Not much is officially known about his months-long stint at the prison, which at its peak held nearly 800 Muslim men […]
(AP) Ethnically divided Cyprus ranks first among European Union member nations in the number of migrants it repatriates relative to its population of just over a million people, the country’s interior minister said Thursday. Nearly 7,000 migrants were sent back to their […]
(National Post) A Liberal cabinet minister, the leader of the Green Party and MPs from all other parties attended an event earlier this week that hosted the publisher of a newspaper known to publish Holocaust denialism and with a long history of […]
(VOA) From refugees to elected office, 14 Somali Americans have won legislative seats across the U.S. this year. Some also have been elected to city councils, school boards and the boards of parks and recreation in their respective cities. The U.S. midterm […]
(AFP) Britain agreed to pay France another 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) to prevent migrant boat crossings in the English Channel under a new deal signed on Monday that underlines improving ties between the neighbours. Around 42,000 people — most of them […]
(AFP) The foreign ministers of Britain and France on Friday said significant progress was being made on an ambitious new deal to thwart illegal migration on small boats across the Channel. “They welcomed progress made towards a significant new UK-France agreement and […]
(Arab News) A global coalition formed to counter the spread of Islamist extremism in the West has held its first conference in the Austrian city of Salzburg. The Champions for Liberty Against the Reality of Islamist Tyranny, or CLARITy Coalition, was set […]
(AP) Italy’s new far-right-led government adopted a measure Friday formalizing the closure of its ports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups as four vessels with more than 1,000 migrants continued to press for a safe port. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told […]
(AFP) Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, poised to form a new government after winning Denmark’s election this week, is a social media-loving leader who has overseen her Social Democrats’ monumental shift to a “zero refugee” policy. The 44-year-old, a fan of canned mackerel […]
(Washington Times) A unanimous Montgomery County Council on Tuesday passed a non-binding resolution affirming an internationally recognized definition of antisemitism and condemning anti-Jewish hatred. The council affirmed the “working definition” of antisemitism prepared by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). It states […]
(AP) Fighting broke out Friday between two groups at a migrant camp in Cyprus, a melee that left two people injured, set 20 tents ablaze and forced scores of families to flee the facility, officials said. Riot police had to use tear […]
(CBC) Police have arrested two Canadian women and charged one with terrorism-related offences after the federal government repatriated them from a detention camp in Syria for ISIS fighters’ family members. The RCMP said it arrested Oumaima Chouay on terrorism charges Tuesday night […]
(National-UAE) The UK Foreign Office has pledged to investigate claims that family members of Iran’s leaders are applying for British passports to seek refuge in London, as protests continue in their country. Iranians have taken to the streets to protest against the […]
(CBC) At least two Canadian women have left a detention camp in Syria and will be arriving in Canada on Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned. The women left the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria — which holds women allegedly tied to […]
(Yle) Relatives of Finnish children living in the Al-Hol displacement camp in northern Syria are investigating the possibility of receiving compensation from the Finnish government. The move comes after the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) last week issued a severe reprimand to […]
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