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Police evacuate Paris migrant camp that grew after Calais INTERNATIONAL

Police evacuate Paris migrant camp that grew after Calais

French police started evacuating thousands of migrants on Friday from an illegal camp in northeastern Paris where numbers soared after the closure of the large ‘Jungle’ camp in the port city of Calais last week.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
‘Refugees being driven to suicide on Nauru’ INTERNATIONAL

‘Refugees being driven to suicide on Nauru’

Many of the 410 asylum seekers held on a tiny Pacific Island are being driven to attempt suicide to escape the prison-like conditions they face in indefinite detention on behalf of Australia ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
For refugees in Greece, long wait for asylum is ‘like death’ INTERNATIONAL

For refugees in Greece, long wait for asylum is ‘like death’

Life in Greece has become so difficult for Amir and Walaa, teachers from Syria, that they sometimes think about returning to the home they risked everything to flee.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syrian blows himself up outside German music festival, 12 wounded INTERNATIONAL

Syrian blows himself up outside German music festival, 12 wounded

A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago blew himself up on Sunday outside a crowded music festival, injuring 12 people in the country's fourth violent attack on members of the public in less than a week.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Eight Turkish coup plotters request asylum in Greece ASIA

Eight Turkish coup plotters request asylum in Greece

A Turkish military helicopter landed in Greece on Saturday carrying eight officers seeking asylum after a coup bid, Greek police said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in EU in 2015 INTERNATIONAL

88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in EU in 2015

Some 88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in the European Union in 2015, 13 percent of them children younger than 14, crossing continents without their parents to seek a place of safety, EU data showed on Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Australia talks tough on asylum-seekers INTERNATIONAL

Australia talks tough on asylum-seekers

Australia cannot be ‘misty-eyed’ about boatpeople, the country's prime minister said Thursday, the day after his immigration policy was thrown into disarray when Papua New Guinea ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Papua New Guinea to shut Australia asylum-seeker camp INTERNATIONAL

Papua New Guinea to shut Australia asylum-seeker camp

Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said a controversial asylum-seeker camp on Manus island will close, throwing Australia's border protection policy into disarray.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Australia hails 600 days of no asylum-seeker boat arrivals INTERNATIONAL

Australia hails 600 days of no asylum-seeker boat arrivals

Australia Thursday hailed its controversial regime of turning back asylum-seeker boats as a success after 600 days with no vessels arriving, and almost 700 people being repelled since the policy was launched.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Austria slammed over plans to cap asylum claims INTERNATIONAL

Austria slammed over plans to cap asylum claims

The EU told Austria yesterday to reconsider its plans to limit asylum claims which it warned would be “plainly incompatible” with European Union laws.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Migrant fatally stabs Swedish refugee centre worker INTERNATIONAL

Migrant fatally stabs Swedish refugee centre worker

A young asylum seeker on Monday allegedly stabbed and killed a female employee of the refugee centre for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in western Sweden, police said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016