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Eurozone, refugee and Covid crises: Angela Merkel’s 16 years in power
Angela Merkel has done something rather rare in European politics these days.
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Refugees will ‘find their way’ despite Turkey’s efforts to close border say Chatham House
We were joined by Fadi Hakura – who runs the Turkey Project at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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Calls for Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Human rights groups have called on Bangladesh to halt what they claim is the forced relocation of Rohingya refugees to a remote, cyclone prone island
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Fire at Lesbos refugee camp – the families left homeless again
Earlier this month the largest refugee camp in Europe on the island of Lesbos burnt to the ground – leaving more than 12,000 people homeless.
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Thousands in desperate need after fire destroys Greece’s biggest refugee camp
This week a number of camp residents tested positive for coronavirus, and the Greek authorities say they believe the fires were started deliberately, in protest against the camp being put under quarantine.
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Meet the 100-year-old walking laps to fundraise for the NHS during Ramadan
100-year-old British Muslim Dabirul Islam Choudhury has raised almost £90,000 so far for charities which help people affected by coronavirus here and in Bangladesh
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Coronavirus ‘could kill 2 million in Bangladesh’, warns leaked UN memo
In Bangladesh up to two million people could be in danger of dying from Covid-19.
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Football helping refugees find a home in Britain
They arrived in the UK as children – alone and with no one to care for them – leaving their family and friends behind in search of safety.
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Turkey opens borders for refugees and migrants to travel to Europe
Hundreds of refugees and migrants are gathering on Turkey’s border with Greece after Turkey said it would no longer prevent them from crossing towards Europe.
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UN calls for Syria ceasefire as children die in freezing conditions
The UN’s envoy to Syria has repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire as the humanitarian situation in the north west of the country continues to deteriorate.
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Hundreds of thousands of Syrians on the move amid upsurge in violence
Today, hundreds of thousands of Syrians are again fleeing an upsurge in violence and the ongoing attacks on healthcare facilities. Since December Russian-backed Syrian government forces have upped their assault on Idlib province, slowly chipping away at its southern edge. The offensive has pushed over half a million people out of their homes in the…
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Syrian refugee Ahmad Al-Rashid: ‘I was in back of refrigerated lorries, we couldn’t breathe, it was freezing cold’
The issue of migration, and in particular the dangers people face, has become a huge issue across the world over the last decade.
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Refugees living on British military base in Cyprus allowed to settle in UK
Their case went all the way to the highest court in the land before the Home Office finally relented, insisting this was an exceptional one-off decision.
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Shamima Begum baby death one of dozens in Syrian refugee camp
The Begum family in East London had lost a daughter to ISIS – now they have lost their their grandchild to war and disease in Syria.