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Migrants or refugees: what’s the right word?
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
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The attacks in France dominated the headlines, while the media were accused of ignoring other victims of the so-called Islamic State’s global campaign of terror.
Appealing to MPs to back British airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, the Prime Minister says such a move would not make the UK any more of a terror target than it already is.
The so-called Islamic State has shown itself capable of striking civilian targets in western Europe. But is the terror group on the back foot in its heartlands of Iraq and Syria?
Moscow suspending passenger flights to Egypt after the Sinai air crash, just a day after suggesting Britain had acted prematurely by grounding jets.
Egyptian security forces have “accidentally” killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and wounded 10, by mistaking a tourist convoy for militants.
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila offers his second home to refugees, as Europe continues to struggle with an influx of migrants.
Thousands of refugees and migrants cross into Austria after the Hungarian authorities give up on trying to seal its borders.
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
With 200 of a group of 700 migrants feared to have drowned in the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy a UN expert warns against thinking of migrants as “aliens from another world”.
A boat carrying hundreds of people capsizes off the Libyan coast and there are reports of a “significant number of casualties”.
I found myself thinking about Rupert Brooke’s soldier this morning as we mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and think about British tourists who were murdered in Tunisia.
Is the rise of the Islamic State the biggest threat to the UK’s security and safety in the history of the country?
A minute’s silence is held in the UK in memory of the 38 victims of last week’s beach massacre in Tunisia.
In the west, Tunisia is seen as a model of democratic transition since its Arab Spring uprising. But it is also a place where secular politicians have been murdered and tourists killed.
A new UN report says one in every 122 people is either a refugee or seeking asylum. It says if this number of people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th biggest.