Simon Israel
Pledge to resettle hundreds of child refugees in Britain
Home Office ministers are working on plans to provide sanctuary to children from UNHCR run Syrian refugee camps.
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Billions pledged for Syrian refugees as peace talks collapse
A London conference aims to raise over £6 billion to help Syria’s neighbours provide for thousands of refugees. But in Geneva separate peace talks hoping to end the Syrian conflict collapse.
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FactCheck: are most migrants and refugees women and children?
Women and children now outnumber men among people trying to get into Europe, according to a charity. Fact or fiction?
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Danish MPs debate seizing refugees’ valuables
The Danish parliament is debating a bill which would allow police to seize migrants’ valuables to pay for their stay in asylum centres.
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Yes, Denmark really wants to strip refugees of jewellery
It’s not a hoax: the Danish government really is legislating to search refugees and confiscate jewellery and other valuables.
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Syrian refugees: first 1,000 arrive in UK
David Cameron says the government has kept its promise to resettle 1,000 people fleeing war-torn Syria before Christmas.
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Refugees and migrants blocked at Macedonia border
As temperatures plummet and winter approaches, thousands of migrants and refugees are finding it harder to travel to Europe. Macedonia says it will turn away migrants who are not from war zones.
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Refugees and migrants travel two billion miles in 2015
Migrants and refugees travelling to Europe to apply for asylum in 2015 have collectively travelled two billion miles, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Simon Israel
Syria refugees: former judges condemn government response
The legal profession’s statement calls for the UK to set up secure legal routes and humanitarian visas so refugees are not forced to risk their lives.
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Hungarian PM warns refugees are ‘brutal threat’ to Europe
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls the mass migration of thousands of refugees a “brutal threat” to Europe.
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Lesbos crisis: British family helping refugees from the sea
For tens of thousands of desperate refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos the only welcome has been from a British family, the Kempsons, doing their best to offer some humanitarian aid.
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Alex Thomson
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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Refugees arrested under strict new Hungarian border laws
Hungarian authorities are arresting refugees crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border as tough new border control laws are introduced.
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David Cameron meets refugees in Lebanon camp
David Cameron visits a refugee camp in Lebanon to meet Syrian asylum seekers who have fled the country’s civil war.
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#RefugeesWelcome: thousands march in London
Thousands march through central London to show solidarity with refugees caught up in the current crisis.
