Dozens of asylum seekers set fire to a migrants’ center on the Greek island of Chios on Monday, angry that they were being kept there, a police source said. Some 40 asylum seekers set fire to two large tents set up by humanitarian groups ...
Arsonists were most likely behind a huge blaze that engulfed a newly built but still empty refugee center in northern Austria, police said on Wednesday. The inferno started in the early hours of Wednesday in the village of Altenfelden and left only charred remains ...
Austrian police commandos have arrested a suspected neo-Nazi who allegedly threatened to massacre asylum-seekers, recovering several weapons and ammunition at his home, police said Sunday. The 20-year-old “repeatedly told friends that he wanted to ‘shoot dead all asylum-seekers with his shotgun’ at a refugee ...
A North Korean defector made a rare public appearance in China on Saturday, criticizing Beijing’s repatriation of asylum seekers despite alleged warnings from South Korea not to speak out. Hyeonseo Lee, who escaped from North Korea to China in 1997, called on Beijing to ...
A record 3,120 people lodged protests last year against the government’s rejection of their applications for asylum, while only 27 applicants were approved.
Dutch officials have identified 30 war crimes suspects, including 10 Syrians, among tens of thousands of asylum-seekers who arrived in the country last year, the justice ministry said Monday. Immigration authorities found the 30 after investigating 170 people, Deputy Justice Minister Klaas Dijkhoff told ...
An Australian hospital has refused to return an asylum-seeker baby to detention in Nauru, as momentum built across the country on Sunday against offshore Pacific camps for processing refugees. Under the government’s tough immigration policy, asylum-seekers who try to reach Australia by boat are ...
The first thing that Leith Khdeir Abbas, a 27-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who arrived in Germany four months ago, plans to do after he makes the return journey on Wednesday is to kneel down and kiss the soil that he calls home. “I fled ...
Asylum seekers could be deported if they’re found to have participated in a string of New Year’s sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany’s justice minister said Thursday. Police say witnesses have described the perpetrators as being of “Arab or North African origin,” but there’s little ...
Norway said Tuesday it would start turning back refugees without visas arriving from elsewhere in the passport-free Schengen zone, particularly Sweden. The move is part of a draft law containing a series of immigration measures that the Oslo government says will make its asylum ...
Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighboring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Since the summer, hundreds of thousands ...
Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers. New figures show that the number of deportations almost doubled this year from 2014. By the end of November, authorities had deported ...
