Unwelcome Refugees

Spanish police have smashed a Bangladeshi-run ring which smuggled more than 350 migrants from the Indian subcontinent into the country and gave them fake passports. The migrants allegedly paid the ring between 14,000-20,000 euros ($15,500-$22,000) for the jo…

Framed by the French Alps, the border region between Italy and France has become an unlikely hot spot for countless migrants risking their lives to flee poverty, war, and political persecution. In the Roya and Durance Valleys, local communities have banded to…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In three weeks, Europeans will vote for a new European Parliament but the real struggle for power over the bloc will begin only after votes are counted. Here’s why? WHO’S VOTING AND FOR WHAT? More than 400 million people in the Europe…

The European Union has extended a ban on selling arms to Myanmar and prolonged sanctions against high-ranking officials over their role in the Rohingya crisis. The measures, which include an embargo on weapons and other equipment that could be used for repre…

The suspect in Saturday’s shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego, California, was cut from the same anti-immigrant cloth as other prominent white supremacist mass shooters — holding the belief that Jewish people are responsible for “replacing” white Americ…

My Brother The Devil director Sally El Hosaini is to direct Working Title’s forthcoming Yusra Mardini biopic, which now has the working title The Swimmers. El Hosaini has replaced Stephen Daldry, who is staying on as an exec producer. The film tells the stor…

Apparently, Adolf Hitler and Nazism are not the definitive worst thing to have happened to Germanyat least if you were to ask Lara Trump. Appearing Thursday morning on Fox Business Networks Varney and Co., the presidential daughter-in-law and Trump 2020 camp…

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s government has written to the European Union asking it to ready a plan of action to deal with a possible flight of refugees from the armed conflict in Libya, Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero said on Wednesday. Moavero was speak…

It's been three months since Abdi* went to Bani Walid, a town known to Libya's refugees and migrants as the "ghost city" due to the prevalence of smugglers known for torturing their human charges. The teenager was released from a Tripoli detention centre du…

Refugees and migrants trapped in a detention centre on the front line of conflict in Tripoli for weeks say they were shot at indiscriminately on Tuesday by fighters aligned with eastern forces advancing on Libya's capital.  At least 10 people were seriously …