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World
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International
2/22/2023 12:04:17 PM
Nearly 1 million people applied for international protection in the European Union in 2022, according to data published Wednesday, bringing the number of asylum requests to a level not seen since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016.
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World
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International
2/14/2023 1:01:48 PM
Nearly 200 charities on Tuesday urged the UK's political leaders to "take a clear stand" against attacks on asylum seekers, days after an anti-immigrant protest descended into violent disorder.
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World
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International
2/5/2023 3:02:15 PM
Some refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels have been spending months in between the Street of Palaces and the Small Castle, quite literally.
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World
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International
1/25/2023 1:57:10 PM
Eight years after facing a refugee crisis in 2015, the European Union is still struggling with how to reform its asylum system, just as migrant entries are once again rising.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 10:46:38 PM
After fleeing violence in their Guatemalan town, but with their way to relatives in California blocked by continuing U.S. asylum restrictions, a family of 15 joined an Advent candlelight ceremony organized by their shelter just south of the border.
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World
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International
12/21/2022 5:00:20 PM
Migrants along the U.S. border with Mexico sought shelter from the cold early Wednesday as restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum in the U.S. remained in place beyond their anticipated end.
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World
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International
12/15/2022 10:31:04 PM
Since the pandemic began, the United States has been using a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease to expel asylum-seekers on the southern border.
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World
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International
11/15/2022 5:55:18 PM
France has rejected asylum applications from 44 of the 234 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking NGO ship, who will be returned to their country of origin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
8/30/2022 9:42:10 PM
Suddenly notorious for a scathing first-person account of the war in Ukraine published online, Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev arrived in France seeking political asylum Sunday after quitting his country for fear of reprisals.
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World
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International
7/25/2022 9:22:04 PM
The two candidates vying to be Britain's next prime minister will face off in a TV debate Monday after both sought to woo the Conservative Party's right-wing base by backing a controversial plan to deport some asylum-seekers to Rwanda.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
6/30/2022 12:14:17 PM
A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is expected to visit the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.
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World
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International
6/14/2022 9:51:35 AM
The British government was due to send a first plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-ditch legal bids to block the deportations, mounting protests and UN criticism.
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World
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Africa
5/19/2022 9:53:04 PM
Britain and Rwanda on Thursday faced down two U.N. agencies that have sharply criticized their controversial plan in which British expects to send some asylum-seekers from the U.K. to the African country.
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World
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International
5/4/2022 10:25:36 PM
The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday.
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World
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International
4/28/2022 10:26:01 PM
In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians have fled the country as refugees. Hundreds of those refugees have now arrived at the southern border of the United States seeking asylum, after flying to Mexico on tourist visas.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
4/21/2022 11:26:00 AM
The UK’s plan to send asylum-seekers arriving in the country to “concentration centres” in Rwanda is rooted in inhumanity and racism.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/7/2022 8:33:53 PM
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended his government's treatment of Ukrainians fleeing war after France accused UK authorities of ``inhumane'' behavior towards the refugees.
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World
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Region
2/9/2022 11:00:45 PM
The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus' interior minister said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
2/3/2022 9:50:46 PM
European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc's borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU's malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/13/2021 8:32:23 PM
Former students and faculty members from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music arrived with their families Monday in Portugal, where they are being granted asylum and where they hope to rebuild their acclaimed school.
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