Refugees

"I was making music, being creative and recording skits way back in secondary school," says Asim Chaudhry, who you definitely know best as West London wideboy Chabuddy G off the BBC mockumentary People Just Do Nothing. "Honestly though – back then my parents thought I was being a moron." After…

The governor of Sicily gave overnight orders to rid all refugees from centers on the Italian island and to ban new migrants from arriving out of fears over the spread of the coronavirus."By midnight on Monday, all migrants present in the hotspots and in every reception center in Sicily will…

“This assistance will provide critical shelter, essential health care, emergency food assistance," Pompeo said Updated 19 August 2020 Reuters August 19, 2020 16:05 WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States is providing nearly $204 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of…

PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) will seek information on the data of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) card holders in the country from UNHCR and Wisma Putra, said its Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin (pix). He said the data on the card holders were needed to…

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…

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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…