All news on the topic: Refugees
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Shabana Mahmood reveals racists tell her to “go back home” and call her a "f***ing Р***" amid asylum reform clash
Shabana Mahmood told MPs she is regularly targeted by racists who tell her to ‘go back home’ and call her a ‘f***ing P***’.
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Shabana Mahmood to tighten asylum rules with shift to temporary refugee protection
Individuals who are granted asylum in the UK will be allowed to stay only temporarily, according to a policy change that the home secretary is expected to announce next week.
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Trump administration to admit just 7,500 refugees next year, mostly white South Africans
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
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Syrian refugee sentenced to life for 2024 Solingen stabbing attack
A Syrian man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2024 stabbing attack in Western Germany in which three people were killed and 10 others injured.
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Horror at US station: Homeless man kills 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled Putin’s war
This is the initial image of a Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed at a train station in the US.
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Clashes erupt at migrant hotels as 30 anti-immigration protests sweep UK
Protesters are clashing with police outside of migrant hotels up and down the UK with with more than 30 demonstrations this weekend.
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Transfers through Birmingham and ghost boat rides: how the Kurdish mafia smuggles people to Britain’s shores
A BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.
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Unrest in Essex: anti-migrant protests escalate into attacks on police
Two people were arrested after a so-called "anti-migration" march in Epping, Essex, descended into violence on Thursday.
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Indian authorities threw dozens of refugees into the sea with life jackets — UN
UN accuses India of abandoning Rohingya refugees at sea — calls actions “outrageous” and life-threatening
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Syrian refugee, 16, stabbed to death in Huddersfield after escaping war-torn Syria
A 16-year-old boy who died after being stabbed in the neck has been identified as a Syrian refugee who was starting a new life in the UK after being injured in a bombing.
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Proposed amendment to British citizenship regulations encounters initial legal challenge
A young Afghan refugee files a case after a decision to block citizenship for those who arrived via a ’dangerous journey’.
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UK Home Office halts asylum claims, leaving thousands of Syrians in limbo
Two months after the fall of Assad’s regime, Whitehall’s decision to pause asylum applications from Syrians has left more than 6,600 cases stuck on hold in the UK.
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Bulgarian police ’hindered rescue’ of teenage migrants who succumbed to freezing temperatures
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them.
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11-year-old girl rescued off Italian coast after three days clinging to tire tubes
Girl from Sierra Leone is only person rescued after shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people
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City council leader suspended over ‘sexual messages sent to Ukrainian refugees’
A senior Labour politician has been suspended by the party following reports he bombarded Ukrainian refugees with sexually inappropriate messages on dating apps.
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Home Office trial extends refugees’ time to find housing before eviction by double
Charities and politicians praise increase to 56 days but press for move to be made permanent
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Hundreds arrested in Northern Ireland during crackdown on people smugglers
Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats
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Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months after admitting lies about refugee
Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to showing a defamatory video of a Syrian refugee during a protest last year.
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Baby dies after boat capsizes during attempted Channel crossing, rescue efforts underway
French authorities say 65 people rescued after overloaded boat sinks off coast of Wissant
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Croatian police accused of burning asylum seekers’ phones and passports
Photos of burnt belongings – including documents needed to apply for asylum – are the latest alleged evidence of brutality on EU borders
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Nine dead and 48 missing after migrant boat sinks off Canary Islands
Rescue services say they saved 27 of the 84 people aboard the vessel believed to have come from Mauritania
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UK must curb rise in racist hate speech by politicians and public figures, UN says
Review also highlights racial profiling in police practices, and failure to address legacies of colonialism and slavery
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No country for Tajiks: How the EU extradites refugees to Emomali Rahmon’s dictatorship over false accusations of links to ISIS
Belgian authorities are expected to make a decision soon regarding the extradition of Sitoramo Ibrohimova, a refugee from Tajikistan.
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Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy
Fifty-three people were rescued by helicopter on Sunday morning, French authorities have said
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Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery of Pablo González’s double life
Among the Russians freed in this week’s historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019
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