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Evan Vucci/AP Buffered by three oceans and the United States to the south, Canada has for decades had the luxury of being able to pick and choose its newcomers — but not since President Donald Trump started pushing against immigration. More than 20,000 people, including thousands of Haitians and Nigerians and hundreds of Turks, Syrians […]
Kat Sandoval, welcome to the Department of State doghouse. Sunday’s Madam Secretary ended on an upnote of sorts: A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people was able to slip away from the government persecuting it and take refuge in another nation. But the underground, foreign-policy maneuvering Kat and Jay had to pull […]
This Sunday’s Madam Secretary (CBS, 10/9c) focuses on the plight of a group of foreign lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer refugees seeking asylum — a storyline dear to both the political drama’s hotshot strategist Kat Sandoval and the actress who plays her. “Originally, some of the producers shared with me that an international LGBTQI storyline […]
The EU is the biggest culprit in the refugee crisis in Europe, and you can’t leave it to Greece alone to deal with it, Stephen Morris from the English Democrats party says. Why aren’t NATO and the EU doing anything, he asks. Around 47,000 asylum-seekers have found themselves unable to leave Greece due to closed-border […]
It was night by the time the whispers reached Mohammad Yunus. The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, had killed a group of men they had taken from Yunus’ Rohingya village earlier in the week. Now, they were returning with a fresh list, went the village rumor. And Yunus’ name was on it. Yunus, his wife and their […]
The US wants to stop funding a UN agency aiding millions of Palestinian refugees to coerce Palestine into talks with Israel. The negotiations soured after Washington’s contentious recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. President Donald Trump appears to be on course to punish the United Nations after the majority of world countries refused to […]
Published time: 24 Dec, 2017 20:59 Sweden has exhausted its resources to take in more asylum seekers after the 2015 refugee influx, the country’s finance minister has said, suggesting that migrants and refugees will have better luck elsewhere in the EU. “Integration is not working properly. It didn’t work before the autumn of 2015 either, […]
Published time: 24 Dec, 2017 03:43 A federal judge in Seattle has partially blocked Donald Trump’s executive order, temporarily suspending admission from 11 mostly Muslim countries, which the US president issued in October. US District Court Judge James Robart on Saturday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction ordering the US government to process applications under the […]
Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have defended their sovereign “right” to reject EU-imposed refugee quotas after the European Commission referred the “breach of their legal obligations” to the European Court of Justice. The EU introduced migrant quotas in September 2015. It was conceived as a temporary emergency scheme to relocate some 160,000 refugees across […]
A team of surgeons and biologists have used genetically modified stem cells, implanted with a customized virus, to treat a young Syrian boy living with a genetic disorder which has destroyed 80 percent of his skin. Hassan has Epidermolysis bullosa, a congenital skin disease, which up until now, has been considered incurable. It’s caused by […]
