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Pope Francis on Wednesday (Aug 28) strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe, saying it was a “grave sin” not to offer aid to migrant vessels. “There are those who work systematically and with every means to reject migrants,” the pontiff said during his weekly general audience in St…
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Stating that Britain has too many low-skilled migrant workers, the country’s new interior minister, Suella Braverman, said new Prime Minister Liz Truss’ government aimed to carry out a 2019 election pledge to lower net migration. “What we’ve got is too many low skilled workers coming into this country,” she said in an interview with The…
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a caravan of Central American and Caribbean migrants “must be stopped” before it reaches the U.S.-Mexico border. Reuters reported that hundreds of migrants, a majority of whom are families with young children, were trekking across Mexico. A witness estimated that about 2,000 migrants on Tuesday were resting and receiving medical attention in the…
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A long-standing member of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) political party has been sacked amid reports of his inflammatory comments in which he allegedly said refugees and migrants could be “gassed”. Christian Lueth, who has been with the AfD since the early days of its inception in 2013, was already suspended from his post…
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Pope Francis on Sunday urged political and military leaders in Libya to end their hostilities and called on the international community to take “to heart” the plight of migrants trapped in the lawless nation. During his weekly blessing overlooking St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff called for “an end to the violence” and a path toward…
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A U.S. federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday blocked a Trump administration policy that has forced tens of thousands of migrants to wait in Mexico for months for hearings in U.S. immigration courts. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their argument that the…
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Seven African migrants died Monday and 70 other people were rescued when their boat sank while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco to Spain, according to a military official. The rescued migrants, including 10 women and a baby, were brought back to the Moroccan coastal city of Nador and taken to Morocco’s coast…
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Ahmad Al-Rashid knows what it was like for the 39 people who were found dead in the back of a truck in southeastern England this week because he has been there and done that. Image: Ahmad Al-Rashid (Source: AP) The 29-year-old Syrian refugee found himself gasping for breath inside a refrigerated shipping container with a…
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Regardless of what happens in the next few months and years in the post-referendum UK, much of the harm has been done. The uncertainty, in particular, is killing. It will have a significant impact on many of the UK’s most productive economic sectors including universities and financial services. It will cast a shadow over inward investment and over…
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A total of 300 migrants have reportedly been forced from boats over the past two days by smugglers off the coast of Yemen – many feared dead or missing, the United Nations migration agency has reported. “The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them into the sea when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the…
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