Refugees

The Associated Press  |  Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — A Texas couple have been charged with evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse after authorities found their infant son dead in a bucket of tar.Sheriff's deputies arrested Donna and Roland Grabowski late Saturday in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. A Collin…

His tipple was nothing stronger than raspberry cordial, but when Louis Marcus first stepped across the threshold of hostelries in Cork’s MacCurtain St in the 1950s, he imbibed an intoxicating cocktail of intellectual conversation and free-thinking artistic innovation.The Leaving Certificate student at Seán Donnelly’s Glasheen Secondary School had heard about…

The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. Once again, we must be thankful to Nigel Farage, this time for spotting what he called a “shocking invasion”. William the Conqueror was bad enough, but this is more severe, involving…

Unclassified minutes of a secret Israeli cabinet meeting held 51 years ago reveal that Israel planned a massive transfer of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the tiny Latin American country of Paraguay.The protocols of the May 1969 government vote exposed an Israeli-Paraguayan agreement to “encourage the emigration” of 60,000…

News Grevic Alvarado Friday 7 August 2020Stuart YoungSeveral human rights NGOs have rejected the statements by Minister of National Security Stuart Young, in which he said the Venezuelans who took refuge with the UN High Commission for Refugees are not covered by the laws of this country. Refugee Community Network…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain What do you think of when you hear the word "refugee"? For many people, what comes to mind is vulnerability—you might imagine the grim conditions of a refugee camp or the dangers of the desperate journey to safety. So perhaps it's unsurprising that refugees are widely…

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What do you think of when you hear the word "refugee"? For many people, what comes to mind is vulnerability--you might imagine the grim conditions of a refugee camp or the dangers of the desperate journey to safety. So perhaps it's unsurprising that refugees are widely perceived to be especially…

PUTRAJAYA: Two document forgery syndicates masterminded by Myanmar nationals and targeting ethnic Rohingya and Arakan Muslims, were crippled in an Immigration Department operation in the Jalan Lebuh Pudu area, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Immigration director-general, Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud (pix) said the syndicates were believed to have been in operation for…

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has seen fewer migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, numbering in the hundreds in the last four months, mainly due to increased border checks and partly due to the coronavirus pandemic, a government minister said on Tuesday.But Turkey is “a difficult and unpredictable neighbour that controls…