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12/1/2021 6:50:30 PM
Top European Union migration officials offered Wednesday to ease asylum rules for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in response to what the EU says is a "hybrid attack'' by Belarus to destabilize the bloc using migrants.
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11/25/2021 8:58:46 PM
A group of 93 asylum seekers stuck in Libya were evacuated to Italy on Thursday in the first flight of its kind in two years, the UN refugee agency said.
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International
11/1/2021 10:29:34 PM
Bulgaria on Monday deployed 350 soldiers to the border with Turkey to help police cope with the growing influx of migrants, the defence minister announced.
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10/23/2021 5:48:52 PM
Moscow on Saturday put a former prison inmate seeking asylum in France on a wanted list after he leaked harrowing videos of alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison.
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International
10/23/2021 11:16:50 AM
Montenegro has granted asylum to a Russian billionaire wanted by Moscow for his alleged role in two murders on the ground that he is being persecuted, his lawyer said on Saturday.
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10/20/2021 4:07:17 PM
Germany has no plans to close its border to Poland despite a sharp increase in asylum seekers arriving via Belarus, even as the EU neighbours discuss countermeasures, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Wednesday
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10/10/2021 1:34:39 PM
Greece's police minister on Sunday said 250 additional guards would be deployed on the country's land border with Turkey, where thousands of asylum-seekers tried to enter last year.
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Africa
10/9/2021 5:04:16 PM
A top official in the interim administration of Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region told AFP Saturday he had fled the country and was seeking asylum, citing fears for his safety.
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International
9/18/2021 4:42:47 PM
The EU has committed 276 million euros ($326 million) for the new camps on Greece's five Aegean islands -- Leros, Lesbos, Kos, Chios as well Samos -- that receive most of the migrant arrivals by sea from neighbouring Turkey
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9/16/2021 1:16:00 PM
Overall 50,000 people applied for international protection across the bloc's 27 nations plus non-members Norway and Switzerland, the highest single-month figure since the outbreak of Covid-19
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9/13/2021 8:36:58 PM
The EU statistics office Eurostat, on which the ECA relies, says that some 500,000 migrants a year are ordered to leave the EU
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9/4/2021 8:48:30 PM
'The situation here is also another message for us in the European Union, that this is now a high-time to move to a more predictable, comprehensive European framework for migration policy,' he said
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9/4/2021 7:10:31 PM
The peaceful protesters called for a more united fight against racism in the country and demanded more rights for refugees, a more generous asylum policy, lower rents and stronger efforts to fight global warming
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International
8/26/2021 11:33:11 AM
The group has been stuck on the EU's eastern frontier for two weeks with Polish forces preventing them from entering to make asylum claims
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8/17/2021 6:53:49 PM
The League for Human Rights (LDH) said with his comments Europe was 'sub-contracting asylum for Afghans to neighbouring countries'
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International
8/12/2021 11:35:30 PM
Those evacuated will be screened both in Afghanistan and upon arrival in Denmark where they will undergo `a security interview with the immigration authorities and other relevant Danish authorities'
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Region
8/11/2021 4:58:51 PM
Following the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the Netherlands and Germany each decided to pause deportations of Afghan asylum seekers due to increasing security concerns in Afghanistan.
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World
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Africa
7/28/2021 9:58:45 AM
Problems include troops seeking asylum in Sudan, thefts at 10 sites and armed groups stationing forces around the main remaining logistics base
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Egypt
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Politics
7/12/2021 6:08:07 PM
Shoukry and Johansson discussed means to support the pathways of regular emigration, enhance the protection of emigrants and refugees, and develop regional and international cooperation in these fields
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International
6/24/2021 8:54:04 PM
'We are proud to mark the relocation of 4,000 people from Greece during trying times and are confident that we can do more together with Greece, our partners and governments across Europe', said IOM chief Gianluca Rocco
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