Unwelcome Refugees

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January determined to focus his time and energy on the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn at home and big challenges such as China, Russia and Iran abroad. But after a Gaza conflict that required intensive behind-the-scenes U.S. diplomacy, his aides are…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says Europe should be “very, very strict” when dealing with countries that he said are seeking to use migrants and refugees as a means of pressuring the European Union.Read More

“A musician who doesn’t play music is dead” is an aphorism that gets mentioned several times in “Limbo,” but Syrian oud player Omar (Amir El-Masry, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) isn’t dead; he’s just stuck on an island off the coast of Scotland, hoping for asylum. In writer-director Ben Sharrock’s exquisitely…

ACH, a leading social enterprise specialising in migrant and refugee accommodation, integration and community-based training services, has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. ACH is proud to announce it is one of 205 organisations nationally to be presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, considered the most prestigious business…

Health-care workers and patients were an important focus of WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge’s visit to Greece last week. During the second day of his visit, Dr Kluge spoke directly with health-care professionals and individuals at the accommodation site for refugees and migrants in Eleonas…

ANKARA (Reuters) - European Council President Charles Michel called on Turkey to keep working to resolve disputes with Greece and Cyprus over gas rights in the Mediterranean as he visited Ankara on Tuesday to discuss trade and refugees with President Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with European Council…

Western leaders condemned the coup by Myanmar's military against Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government and hundreds of thousands of her supporters took to the social media to voice their anger at the takeover. The sudden turn of events in the early hours of Monday derailed years of efforts…

For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible. After World War I, violent pogroms ransacked his town; he survived one of them by disguising himself as a…

In 2015, Canadian author Steven Heighton travelled to Lesvos, Greece, where he volunteered at a transit camp for refugees who had just arrived from Turkey. That year, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesvos, and several hundred drowned. Heighton writes…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Nick Timothy in The Daily Telegraphon setting out a coherent global strategyBrexit and Biden demand a bold new British foreign policy“And what about international trade? Does the Government seek agreements…