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EU asylum claims soar to seven-year high
Brussels: Asylum applications in the EU jumped last year after Covid travel curbs were lifted, surging 50 percent over 2021…
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Kuwait charity offers aid to 700 families, 750 orphans at Jordan camps
Kuwait: The Kuwaiti Al-Najat Charity announced on Thursday that it had provided aid for 700 families and 750 orphans at…
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Greek court drops spying charges against migrant rescuers
Athens: A court on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday dropped espionage charges against 24 migrant rescue workers, the…
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Kuwait affirms support to UNHCR, refugee rights to return home
New York: The State of Kuwait has reaffirmed support to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for the return of refugees…
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German court hands ex-soldier five and a half years for far-right plot
Frankfurt: A German court on Friday sentenced a former soldier to five and a half years in prison for plotting…
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Lebanon threatens to expel Syrian refugees
Beirut: Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday said Lebanon was ready to expel Syrian refugees living in the country if…
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Hunger crisis could swell already record global displacement: UN
Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warned…
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Rohingya children stage ‘genocide’ anniversary protest
UKHIA, Bangladesh: Hundreds of children yesterday defied a ban on protests at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to mark the…
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Venezuelan refugee orchestra back together after Argentine lockdown
After a year and a half of silence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the sounds of the Latin Vox Machine…
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‘We are suffocating’: Migrants in Lesbos want help
LESBOS: On a windswept hill overlooking the Aegean Sea, thousands of asylum seekers huddling in tents on the island of…
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Dhaka defends use of barbed-wire fences after Rohingya camp blaze
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh yesterday defended the use of barbed-wire fences around vast camps holding almost a million Rohingya refugees,…
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