Unwelcome Refugees

A Brussels church has celebrated the International Day of the Migrant and the Refugee and reflected on its thirty years of helping new arrivals to Europe. The parish of Riches Claires has a dedicated committee for refugees that has been operating for thirty …

Migration has become a flash point around the world in recent years, as millions of people have been displaced by wars in Syria and Afghanistan and economic deprivation in Africa, many seeking a better future in Europe. Immigration has spurred a bitter backl…

It’s been 84 years since a first-term Canadian Prime Minister with a parliamentary majority lost a bid for re-election, but Justin Trudeau was in a position to shatter that record even before those photos hit the Internet. Blackface is a bad look for any cand…

Greta Thunberg Anders Hellberg On September 20, an estimated 4 million people in 161 countries took to the streets in the largest climate change demonstration in history. At the helm of this Global Climate Strike was 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has ent…

Ten Syrian refugees posing as a men's volleyball team have been arrested at the airport of Greece's capital after attempting to travel to a European country. Police said in a statement on Sunday the refugees were dressed in identical athletic uniforms and ca…

Malta has brought a group of 256 migrants and refugees ashore, including 36 from the Ocean Viking rescue ship, but the ship's operators complained that the island's authorities had refused disembarkation for more than 180 others on board.  The Maltese armed …

The Global Climate Strike, which could be the largest climate change demonstration in history, is expected to put thousands of people on the streets around the world on Friday to protest inaction against climate change. At the helm is 16-year-old Greta Thu…

As various reports show India approaching Day Zero (the day when a places taps dry out and people have to stand in line to collect a daily quota of water), a top Indian expert has warned that Indians may soon become water refugees wholl migrate to water-rich …

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The defeat of the 2016 coup consolidated support for President Erdogan "Istanbul never leaves you - its beauty pulls you back," a friend told me as I packed up my life here. After five years it was time to leave, and I rec…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that a planned “safe zone” in northern Syria could host 2-3 million Syrian refugees that have settled in Turkey and Europe after eight years of war at home. Addressing academics in Ankara…