Tag: Refugees

Syrian rebels have stormed Bashar al-Assad's palace, marking the near collapse of his 24-year rule.

An Italian court has dealt a major blow to Giorgia Meloni’s £557m plan to send migrants to Albania by ruling that they must all be brought back to Italy because Egypt and Bangladesh are "not safe countries".

The EU will keep turning a blind eye to Ireland's lucrative Corporation Tax wheeze as long as it keeps taking in the migrants and refugees, says Mike Wells.

Germany's Foreign Office has been caught pressuring embassy officials to grant entry visas to thousands of fake refugees with forged passports. Eugyppius opens a window on how the mass migration sausage is made.

Amid an immigration surge, a shortfall of 250,000 homes and soaring rents, the Irish Government has sent in riot police to Tipperary where locals are protesting the closure of the last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.

Rishi Sunak called for a change in global refugee laws in Rome last week. Or did he, asks Alp Mehmet – the message was not repeated in any official communications and there is a notable lack of concrete action.

Western Governments are stuck in a bind of their own making with the unworkable Refugee Convention preventing effective control of their borders – a prime example of a luxury belief, says Dr. Prakash Shah.

A chart has been doing the rounds on Twitter that appears to show a dramatic fall in the number of men in Ukraine. However, it is based on flawed projections, which don't account for the female skew among refugees.

Gary Lineker today refused to apologise and used his reinstatement by the BBC to hammer home his views on migrants, saying those crossing the channel were fleeing persecution. What, in France?

When Maria Chaplia contracted a nasty skin infection last year, she hopped on a flight back to her native Ukraine, where she was immediately treated in a health system that she says is much better than the creaking NHS.