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Migrants and refugees: does opening door make it better or worse?
Another round of insults about who is racist and who is progressive is achieving nothing at all in the stymied, divided, impotent EU.
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Another round of insults about who is racist and who is progressive is achieving nothing at all in the stymied, divided, impotent EU.
The pitiless Syrian engine of war grinds on. The waves of the displaced seek refuge. The only realistic escape route is Lebanon and Turkey.
Pressure is growing on countries outside Europe – particularly the Gulf states – to take in more refugees from the Syrian civil war. What are the facts?
What Europe has seen so far is nothing as to what is to come. That means asking some hard questions, including whether the war against Assad should be put on hold?
A British tourist helping refugees on a beach in Lesbos says of the debate in the UK: “If only they heard the stories.. Germany has put us to shame.”
Ftaym, single mother of five children, gestures up at the bombed-out concrete wreck in the south of the Lebanese capital which is now “home.”
The online abuse I’ve received while covering the refugee and migration crisis is more than any other story I’ve reported.
David Cameron pledges to offer refuge in Britain to up to 20,000 Syrians living in camps in the Middle East.
The response to that photo to open doors is entirely understandable. The problem is that it might just make things worse.
Three Labour leadership candidates and Nicola Sturgeon say they would allow Syrian refugees to live in their home, after the Finnish PM said on Saturday he would open up his country house.
Is this really the biggest refugee crisis since 1945? What are the facts behind the headlines?
David Cameron says that Britain will take “thousands” more but says exact numbers will be detailed next week.
As Germany says it will take in 800,000 refugees this year and David Cameron faces criticism for his response to the crisis, what should Britain do?
The heart-breaking images of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach have reverberated around the world, but will they lead to a change in British attitudes towards the refugee crisis?
The father of a Syrian child who died trying to reach Europe has described how he fought to save his family after being abandoned by a people smuggler.