UNHCR: Global displacement crisis exacerbated by financial woes
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, warns the number of people being displaced worldwide by conflict and persecution
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Nato demands answers from Moscow over Turkish airspace breach
NATO is demanding an immediate explanation after Turkey reported multiple incursions by Russian fighter jets into its airspace over two
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Erdogan in Brussels with migration on the table with the EU
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on an official visit in Brussels to meet with the presidents of all the EU
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Mass migration puts Europe at risk of destabilisation – Hungarian foreign minister
If Europe cannot get control of its borders and decrease the migrant influx, Europe could be destabilised, Hungarian foreign minister
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Refugee crisis puts Athens on the brink
The flow of refugees through Greece is greater than ever, but bad weather and border closures threaten to strand thousands
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Rough seas cut migrant flow to Greece
As migrants streamed into the Karatepes registration camp Saturday on the Greek island of Lesbos, many smiled as they clutched
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Coalition urges Russia to stop targeting Syria opposition
Russia carried out more airstrikes in Syria Friday, as a U.S-led coalition urged Moscow to halt any attacks on the
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Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, October 2
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and prosecutors detained 46 alleged people-traffickers and 501 migrants who had entered
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Germany debates tightening asylum laws
Wide-ranging changes to accelerate and tighten Germany’s asylum laws have been submitted to parliament. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said
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