Two women use their laptops. (Photo: #WOCinTech Chat/Flickr) The internet is a critical component of modern life, and never has that been clearer than during the COVID-19 pandemic, where online connectivity has proven an essential lifeline to telework, distance learning, … Read More
Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński had warned of a such a turn of events as early as 2015 during the migration crisis. Swedish media has been devoting much attention to the deteriorating situation in the city of Gothenburg, … Read More
LONDON — Britain this week began deploying sophisticated military drones to patrol the English Channel to end a surge in crossings by desperate migrants trying to reach its shores. A British artillery regiment deployed its Watchkeeper WK450 to fly over … Read More
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday it made more than 2,000 arrests during a six-week nationwide operation in July and August that focused on those with criminal convictions and charges, but also led to the arrests of … Read More
Migrants board the ‘MS GNV Azzurra’ quarantine ship which has has been sent on the Italian Pelagie Island of Lampedusa, Aug. 4, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic ROME – Twice-weekly charter flights of up to 80 people who Italian authorities … Read More
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The situation at the U.S. – Mexico border has changed drastically from the ‘humanitarian crisis’ it was a year ago, according to border patrol. Border Patrol officials credit the change, in part, to the pandemic. “It’s … Read More
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that “violent riots” outside a new government coronavirus clinic set up to provide care to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees amid the coronavirus pandemic represent a growing “anti-migrant” movement in Greece. MSF … Read More
NGOs warn that coronavirus may soon spread at Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where some 13,000 people live in cramped conditions. Such an outbreak, experts say, would see the island struggle to cope. Moria refugee camp … Read More
Five years ago, as hundreds of thousands of refugees came to Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel maintained: “We can do it.” How has Germany — and those who sought asylum — managed since then? DW explains. Perhaps no other phrase uttered during … Read More
The project has been unveiled after a crowd of about 300 migrants attacked the Melilla enclave on Thursday. The Spanish government plans to build 10-meter-high (32-feet) cylindrical walls around its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to stop raids … Read More