migrants
Struggling Germany urges neighbours to do more to ease refugee crisis
World
September 8, 2015
Struggling Germany urges neighbours to do more to ease refugee crisis
Germany told its European partners they must take in more refugees on Monday as it struggles to cope with record…
Sawiris offered a Maldive island following refugee shelter pledge
Egypt
September 8, 2015
Sawiris offered a Maldive island following refugee shelter pledge
A businessman from the Maldives has offered his family’s island to Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who declared last week he…
Britain to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
Egypt
September 7, 2015
Britain to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five…
Germany pledges 6 bn euros for refugees, France to take in 24,000
World
September 7, 2015
Germany pledges 6 bn euros for refugees, France to take in 24,000
Germany pledged an extra six billion euros Monday to help the record numbers of desperate refugees crossing its borders, with…
Austria to lift measures that let migrants cross from Hungary
World
September 6, 2015
Austria to lift measures that let migrants cross from Hungary
Austria said on Sunday it planned to phase out emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded against their…
Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
World
September 5, 2015
Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the frontier by a…
Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary
World
September 5, 2015
Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary
Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, bussed to the border by a Hungarian government that gave up…
Volunteer hotline saves desperate migrants from the Med
World
September 4, 2015
Volunteer hotline saves desperate migrants from the Med
From his office in Strasbourg in eastern France, Hatem Gheribi picks up the phone to a desperate woman who says…
IOM: 30-40 migrants drown after dinghy deflates off Libya
Egypt
September 4, 2015
IOM: 30-40 migrants drown after dinghy deflates off Libya
About 30-40 people drowned in the Mediterranean after a dinghy carrying 120-140 Somalis, Sudanese and Nigerians deflated, causing panic on…
Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘tens of millions’ of migrants
World
September 4, 2015
Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘tens of millions’ of migrants
Europeans risk becoming a minority on their own continent, Hungary's right-wing prime minister said on Friday, defending his country's hardline…