While Others Saw Refugees, This German Professor Saw Human Potential

16.02.2017 01:24:00

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the size of the refugee problem confronting the world today. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, more than 30,000 people are forced to flee their homes every day because of conflict or persecution. But one energetic university professor in Germany decided that...

Greek bands raise money for refugee squats

13.02.2017 23:29:00

Around a dozen squats provide housing for refugees and migrants in the Exarchia neighbourhood of Athens.

Libya halts hundreds of Europe-bound refugees

13.02.2017 23:27:00

More than 400 people, including many women and children, intercepted by Libya's coastguard attempting to reach Europe.

MV Aquarius rescues refugees on Mediterranean Sea

13.02.2017 23:12:00

MV Aquarius braves cold and stormy weather to search for and rescue troubled refugee boats crossing the sea at night.

Death in detention: Suicide attempts soar in the UK

13.02.2017 23:05:00

Some 393 refugees and migrants locked up tried to take their lives in 2015 - a record-high average of one a day.

Refugees cross to Canada to escape Donald Trump

13.02.2017 22:57:00

Recently, hundreds of refugees have crossed the US border into Manitoba, braving snow and cold at great peril.

Turkey 'running study to open more hospitals in Syria'

13.02.2017 20:28:00

Turkish Red Crescent says health ministry looking to build on medical facility set up earlier in Jarabulus

Turkey schooling 483,000 refugee children says minister

13.02.2017 20:25:00

Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz tells Anadolu Agency if children remain uneducated they will be 'open to additional risks'

Greetings from Koutsochero camp, near Larissa, Greece

13.02.2017 00:37:00

Few days ago, 49 people from Syria and Iraq, residing in TC Tabanovce for almost one year, were relocated to Greece trough an official Readmission Procedure. Even though the readmission was done voluntarily, upon request of the refugees to be readmitted in Greece in order to access relocation to...

Macedonia returned the refugees from Tabanovce to Greece

09.02.2017 11:34:00

All the refugees that were placed in the transit center Tabanovce, yesterday night were unexpectedly and without any explanation sent back to Greece, TV Nova informs. It’s about 49 refugees from Syria and Iraq, family members, women, children, elderly people that were staying in the center for...

Hungary submits plans to EU to detain all asylum seekers

08.02.2017 23:29:00

Government spokesman says applicants would be held in ‘shelters’, and denies they would be ‘detention centres’

Record Number of Refugees and Migrants Died in the Mediterranean This Winter, UNICEF Says

05.02.2017 23:55:00

An estimated 190 of the migrants and refugees who died this winter were children, according to UNICEF.

Calais Jungle wall is completed two months after all the refugees were driven out

02.02.2017 03:51:00

"It's a complete joke, a very costly political point-scoring exercise. That money could have been used to put a warm roof over refugees' heads"

What does it mean to be a refugee?

31.01.2017 23:15:00

About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning they fled their homes but are still in their own countries. Others, referred to as refugees, sought shelter...

STARBUCKS CEO: We're going to hire 10,000 refugees

31.01.2017 20:05:00

Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz sent out a company-wide letter following President Donald Trump’s decision to sign an executive order that bans citizens of seven majority Muslim countries from entering the United States.

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