Europe Refugees

• Donald Trump urged Spain to build a wall across the Sahara desert: reports

  Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister Josep Borrell said Trump suggested that Spain construct a border wall across the Sahara desert.

  World

  Sep 19, 2018
  
• Pope Francis likens refugee holding centres to concentration camps

  Pope Francis urged governments to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become "concentration camps."

  World

  Apr 22, 2017
  
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• Thousands of former Taliban fighters may have entered Germany

  Thousands of former Taliban fighters may have entered Germany over the past two years among an influx of more than a million migrants and refugees.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2017
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• ‘Alarmingly high’ growth of anti-migrant crimes in Germany

  Germany's interior ministry says a new report showing more than 3,500 attacks in 2016 on migrants and their homes is "alarmingly high and cause for concern" but says authorities are prosecuting the crimes aggressively and the numbers are now falling.

  Crime

  Feb 27, 2017
• Merkel’s party loses to anti-immigration nationalists in German state vote

  A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a state election Sunday in the region where German Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservatives.

  World

  Sep 4, 2016
• French court rejects bid to shut down more than 70 eateries in Calais refugee camp

  A French court has rejected a bid to close the 72 eateries and shops in the makeshift migrant camp in the northern port city of Calais.

  Aug 12, 2016