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Is Iraq on the verge of another refugee crisis? Or worse?
The US faces more tough choices to prevent a repeat of the 1991 humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
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One in every 50 migrants who try to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea will die on the journey. What is so terrible in their home countries to force people into such a desperate voyage?
If Andrew Lansley were to submit a CV for the top humanitarian role at the UN – which David Cameron is nominating him for – what would he write under “relevant experience”?
More than 2,000 people, desperate to reach Europe, have died in Mediterranean waters in just the last three months. Channel 4 News meets some of the survivors as they land in Sicily.
Turkey closes some of its border crossings with Syria following an influx of more than 100,000 Kurdish refugees in two days, fleeing an advance by the Islamic State.
The number of refugees from the Syrian civil war rises above 3 million, the United Nations refugee agency says.
Islamic militants in Iraq reportedly massacre 80 members of the Yazidi minority, although reports emerge of a far larger number being killed.
The US faces more tough choices to prevent a repeat of the 1991 humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
More than 150 Sri Lankan asylum seekers will remain stuck at sea on a boat while an Australian court decides their fate – but the government says it will not send them back without 72 hours’ notice.
Australia’s high court stops the mid-ocean transfer of 153 Tamil asylum seekers to the Sri Lankan navy, days after 41 others were handed straight to the Sri Lankan police on their return.
More than 50 million people were forced to leave their homes last year due to war or persecution, the highest number since the second world war, says the UN refugee agency.
Britain will reopen its embassy in Iran, William Hague announces, as western powers seek to co-operate with Tehran to tackle the advance of Isis in Iraq.
The EU move is a start but the numbers are not enough, not nearly enough to end the slide into violence in the Central African Republic
Some of the “most vulnerable” Syrian refugees, including torture survivors and victims of sexual assaults, will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces.
Nick Clegg says the UK is one of the most “open-hearted countries” in the world when helping refugees – but is resettling 500 of the “most vulnerable” Syrians really enough?
Some of the 5,000 Syrian migrants in Bulgaria are so unhappy that they want to return home. Bulgaria, meanwhile, is accused of keeping refugee camp conditions bad to discourage others from coming.