Unwelcome Refugees

CAIRO (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted Europe-bound vessels carrying nearly 200 migrants, including women, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Saturday that five rubber boats carrying 199 migrants were intercept…

Vast majority coming from Middle East, Africa Image Credits: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images. By Dan Lyman Thursday, June 20, 2019 Canada has assumed the leading global position for resettling refugees, taking a crown held by the…

CAIRO (AP) The United Nations refugee agency says it has evacuated 131 African refugees from Libya to its emergency transit center in neighboring Niger. The UNHCR released a statement Thursday saying the evacuees were from Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, and inc…

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(GENEVA) — A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide from war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, an increase of more than 2 million from last year and an overall total that would amount to the world’s 20th …

Who comes to mind when you picture a refugee? You probably don’t imagine a European. But if you were a child of World War II and asked your parents what a refugee was, they would probably have described someone from Europe. More than 40 million Europeans wer…

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. As World Refugee Day approaches on June 20, the number of refugees worldwide will likely surpass last years 25.4 million. That governments in the West and elsewhereunder pressure from anti-i…

CAIRO (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted a rubber vessel carrying 91 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Sunday that three women and two children were among the…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Social entrepreneurs at the leading creative edge of climate and culture speak at Welcome Change in New York City (left to right): Bren Smith of GreenWave, Paula Daniels of Center for G…

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Men in Black: International, in theaters now. The original Men in Black firmly established the history of the agency, which polices aliens living in secret on Earth, and protects the planet from intergalacti…