MIGRATION CRISIS Swiss are “too restrictive” over Syrian refugees SEP 20, 2015 – 12:36 A Syrian woman stands with her children after arriving by boat on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 19 (Pixsil) Switzerland should grant more Syrians full refugee status rather than just temporary residency, a top […]
By Reuters – Sep 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Afghan refugees struggle to swim ashore after their dinghy with a broken engine drifted out of control off the Greek island of […]
Syrian refugee crisis Swiss pledge to take part in EU refugee programme By Urs Geiser Sep 18, 2015 – 17:43 Foreign Minister Burkhalter (right) and Justice Minister Sommaruga (centre) say Switzerland is willing to cooperate with the EU to alleviate the refugee crisis (Keystone) President Simonetta Sommaruga says Switzerland will […]
Refugees Government braces for big refugee influx Sep 16, 2015 – 14:24 Refugees are to be distributed in centres across the country (Keystone) The cantonal authorities have been asked to gear up for a steep increase in the number of refugees expected to arrive in Switzerland. The State Secretariat for […]
Sep 16,2015 – JORDAN TIMES BY MICHAEL JANSEN Several European Union countries should be ashamed about the way they reacted to the rising refugee crisis caused by the wars in Syria and Iraq. The country that should be most ashamed is Hungary where, following the 1956 Soviet invasion and clampdown […]
By AFP – Sep 15,2015 – CAIRO — Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who offered to buy a Mediterranean island to help hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing war, said Monday he was in talks to buy two private Greek islands. The businessman announced earlier this month he was looking […]
Keleti train station as never before Seeing at firsthand the hopelessness of refugees 11. September 2015 – by Alexander Stemp in Politics There has been much talk and media coverage about the human tides of refugees pouring into Europe this summer, with Budapest Keleti train station playing its part as […]
Refugee crisis: Thank God for Germany taking responsibility – the rest of Europe appears to have forgotten the age-old lessons of history Thousands of years of our history can be traced via the movements of refugees. Often, they have been welcomed, and the societies receiving them enriched. Yet the same […]
By Robert Fisk, for the Independent Once, the country was quite happy to send those it disliked to Germany… Funny what a weather-vane the Second World War becomes in the hands of politicians and journalists. Europe faces the biggest refugee crisis since the 1939-1945 conflict, we are solemnly told. And […]
By Michael StephensRoyal United Services Institute (Rusi), Doha Image copyrightReutersImage captionTens of thousands of Syrian refugees are heading westwards into Europe Images of Syrian refugees stuck at borders and at train stations, not to mention the harrowing picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, has spurred […]
Sep 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Bernard-Henri Lévy Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn. It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a “migrant”, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and those driven […]
By JT – Sep 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants wait to board a train after crossing the border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece near Gevgelija on Saturday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Jordan has said that the world community’s failure to aptly address the refugee plight has led […]
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Hundreds begin walking along highway heading for Austria as one person dies in standoff at suburban train station Police attempt to stop migrants as they march along the highway near […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Sep 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees play outdoors at the Zaatari Refugee Camp recently (Photo courtesy of UNHCR) AMMAN — Jordan has the second largest number of refugees per capita, according to an international report. The report by Statista, a Germany-based statistics portal, said Jordan ranked […]
Refugee crisis: David Cameron lowered the flag for the dead king of Saudi Arabia – will he do the same honour for little Aylan Kurdi? In the ever-growing chasm between the people of Europe and their immoral leaders there is a far more serious challenge for the future by Robert […]
Refugees and migrants have defied Hungarian police and refused to get off a train in order to be sent to a refugee camp. The train, which left Budapest station bound for Hungary’s border with Austria, stopped around 30 miles outside of the capital, with riot police ordering people off the […]
Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger at a press conference earlier this week. Photo: DPA Mannschaft step forward to welcome refugees Published: 02 Sep 2015 16:50 GMT+02:00 Germany’s World Cup-winning footballers have condemned xenophobic attacks on the thousands of foreigners pouring into their country and led calls to help the refugees amidst […]
OPINION Escaping the refugee crisis By Peter Singer SEP 2, 2015 – 13:55 In July, the number of migrants reaching the borders of the European Union passed 100,000 – the third consecutive month in which a new record was set. In one week in August, 21,000 migrants arrived in Greece. […]
ISTANBUL Turkish security forces patrolled the shores of Muğla, finding the bodies of several refugees, including a child, who drowned and were washed ashore. DHA photos World must help Turkey with refugees as ‘things will get even worse’: UNHCR At least 12 migrants believed to be Syrians drowned as two […]