Unwelcome Refugees

At 11 P.M. on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union. Big Ben will not bong—it’s too expensive—but the United Kingdom will secede from its defining economic and political relationship of the past fifty years. In Parliament Square, under the silent clock, Nigel Farage, the country’s most influential populist politician…

January 30, 2020 | 2:14pm | Updated January 30, 2020 | 4:09pm Refugees and migrants aboard an overcrowded dinghy as they cross the Aegean Sea, from Turkey. AP Migrants use wood to make a fire, outside the perimeter of the overcrowded Moria refugee camp. AP Migrants walk between makeshift tents…

CAIRO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it was suspending operations at a refugee center in Libya’s capital because it could become a target while the U.N. envoy said a truce brokered by Russia and Turkey was holding “only in name”. A…

Donald Trump's "Middle East plan" has fully adopted the Israeli agenda and ignores the fundamental problem that has continued for more than 70 years. Palestinians are not striving to improve the conditions of their imprisonment, we want the return of our refugees and the end of the occupation. As it…

Yves here. Libya….yet another country that has become a quagmire. An update on the sorry state of play. By Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, editor, journalist, and a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Med…

Following decisions by both Russia and Turkey to involve themselves in Libya's civil war, Germany and France have responded with their own diplomatic initiatives, and the European Union has been left playing a bit part. But by violating the spirit, if not the…

The European Union (EU) has been paying other countries to keep migrants away from Europe, according to a report in the New York Times. The report published in September last year reveals that EU paid Turkey billions to keep refugees from crossing into Greece. It has funded the Libyan Coast…

America should end its military involvement in conflicts in the Middle East and bring our troops home. January 27, 2020 U.S. senator from Massachusetts Spencer Platt / GettyOnce again, the United States risks being drawn into an unnecessary war in the Middle East. Donald Trump’s impulsive and reckless escalation of…

Damian Wilson is a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU. They may be all smiles for the cameras, but the issues Angela Merkel and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to discuss – from Syrian refugees to Turkey’s attempts to…

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against prematurely scrapping an international nuclear deal with Iran, saying that it would be wrong to abandon an “imperfect” deal with nothing better in place. Speaking at the World Eco…