Austria: Antifa demonstrators try to block deportation of migrant criminals, including rapists

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Up to 50 people blocked a street and demanded a right to stay for those who were being deported despite convictions for rape, robbery, and other serious crimes. Refugee workers in Vienna tried to prevent the deportation of several rejected … Read More

Migrants’ journey to Europe turns deadly as boat capsizes in Mediterranean

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At least 41 refugees and migrants have drowned with more than 70 others rescued by a commercial vessel that took them to Sicilian port town Porto Empedocle. Migrants wearing lifejackets on a rubber dinghy are pictured during a rescue operation … Read More

Sweden: Violence from migrants has train operator threatening to cancel service in certain areas

In several incidents, the perpetrators of migrant background threatened the train staff, usually over missing train tickets. Afghans, Somalis, and Eritreans have been singled out as those responsible for a number of threatening incidents and violence that has befallen the … Read More

An Iraqi teenager trapped in Bosnia: ‘I need mama, I need school’

Frhan Hzam from Iraq and his children Hsan and Hubas speak with their mother who is in Germany, in a temporary home in the village near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 30, 2021 | Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Thousands of … Read More

‘We do what the state doesn’t do’: Surviving a Paris squat filled with tents

Tents fill a squat in the Paris region | Photo: InfoMigrants Cold, hungry, forgotten: 250 migrants have turned a disused Paris office into their temporary home. In recent months, this type of abandoned building has become one of the only … Read More

UK prepares to welcome thousands of Hong Kongers fleeing national security law

How 2020 saw Hong Kong change forever. Hong Kong (CNN) The United Kingdom is preparing to welcome potentially tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this … Read More

‘The Situation is Catastrophic’: Inside France’s Brutal Evictions of Refugees

The conditions faced by refugees in northern France are now “more precarious than ever,” humanitarian charities say. “They came with chainsaws and cleared that whole area,” said Jamal, a 24-year-old Sudanese refugee who fled war in Darfur, gesturing at the … Read More

Bosnia warned of consequences if migrants not given shelter

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Most of the migrants are from Pakistan and Afghanistan and they include children Bosnia risks “severe consequences” to its reputation if assistance is not urgently given to 1,700 people left without shelter for more than three weeks, the European Union’s … Read More

Merkel’s possible successor says ‘road to Germany’ is no longer open for refugees

Friedrich Merz, one of the three current candidates vying for the leadership post of the German Christian Democrats [Bernd von Jutrczenka – Pool/Getty Images] A possible presidential candidate of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) opposed on Saturday … Read More

European rights envoy urges Bosnia to act to avoid migrant humanitarian crisis

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A humanitarian crisis was unfolding in northwestern Bosnia where up to 3,500 migrants may end up sleeping rough in cold weather, a top European human rights envoy said on Friday. Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe’s Human … Read More

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