Anti-Islamists evoke uncomfortable memories of Germany’s past
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: It is no accident Germany’s anti-Islamist marches started in Dresden. Twenty-five years...
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Christian refugees thrown overboard by Muslim migrants on crossing from Libya...
At least nine Christian refugees drowned in the Mediterranean when they were thrown overboard by Muslim migrants after a row provoked by religious differences erupted on a boat sailing from Libya to...
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European Union doubles aid to countries taking in influx of migrants coming...
BRUSSELS — The European Union has doubled the emergency aid to frontline member states Italy, Greece and Malta which have to deal with the massive influx of migrants coming across the Mediterranean to...
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Matthew Fisher: Europe turns its back on desperate migrants
LONDON — Europe is in a deep quandary over how to respond to a huge and growing influx of desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa in rickety boats totally ill-suited for...
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Thousands more still at sea after boats with 600 migrants wash ashore in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days. But an estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya...
View ArticleLetters: Tackle migration’s root causes
Re: Migrant Surges Stretch Resources, May 12. The migrant surges have only just begun, thanks, in part, to the father and son Bush presidencies. Had they not taken out Saddam Hussein et al in response...
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Eurotunnel operator urges U.K. and France to intervene as ninth migrant dies...
Migrants rushed the tunnel linking France and England repeatedly for a second night on Wednesday and one man was crushed by a truck in the chaos, deepening tensions surrounding the thousands of people...
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Fights break out among migrants on Kos island as Greek authorities...
KOS, Greece — Fights broke out among migrants Tuesday on the Greek island of Kos, where overwhelmed authorities are struggling to contain tens of thousands of migrants arriving in crammed rubber...
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‘Nowhere to go’: Macedonian forces fire stun grenades at thousands of...
IDOMENI, Greece — Macedonian special police forces fired stun grenades Friday to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man’s land with Greece, a day after declaring a state of emergency on its...
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Wave of desperate migrants board trains toward EU as Hungary builds razor...
Milos Bicanski / Getty ImagesMacedonian special police forces control the departure of migrants to board a train to reach the Serbian-Macedonian border on Sunday. GEVGELIJA, Macedonia — Thousands of...
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Partially decomposed bodies of at least 20 migrants found in truck parked on...
Austrian police on Thursday discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — migrants piled in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main highway from Budapest to...
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Authorities now say there were 71 dead migrants packed into truck as three...
VIENNA — Three people believed to be part of a human smuggling operation were arrested overnight in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a refrigerated truck abandoned on...
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Hungary shuts down Budapest train station to migrants amid rising tension...
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Keleti train station, which has emerged as ground zero in Europe’s spiraling migration crisis, cut off service to migrants Tuesday as European countries remained bitterly divided...
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Alan Kurdi drowned off the shores of Turkey. His family was trying to reach...
The drowned child washed up on a Turkish beach captured in a photograph that went around the world Wednesday was three-year-old Alan Kurdi. He died, along with his five-year-old brother Galib and their...
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Desperate migrants clash with police at Hungarian railway station after...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s leader railed Thursday at Germany and EU leaders for lacking urgency in dealing with Europe’s migrant crisis as chaos reigned back home, where migrants by the thousands...
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‘Will you break away from Islam?’ Asylum seekers in Germany convert to...
BERLIN — Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. “Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?” pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee....
View ArticleNetanyahu refuses to accept Syrian migrants into Israel, moves to construct...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected calls from opposition politicians for Israel to accept refugees from Syria, saying that Israel was “a very small country that lacks...
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Thousands seeking new lives in Europe enter Hungary as country works on...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Thousands of people seeking new lives in Europe entered Hungary on Tuesday, even as the government pledged renewed efforts to stop migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa...
View ArticleNational Post View: Taking leadership on the migrant issue
Toronto Mayor John Tory is showing some leadership on the issue of resettling and aiding Syrian refugees. First, he joined a group aiming to raise the $27,000 needed to resettle a refugee family. He...
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Eritrean migrant killed in Israel after he was mistaken for assailant, shot...
Warning: Graphic images JERUSALEM — An Eritrean migrant shot by an Israeli security guard and then attacked by bystanders who mistook him for an assailant in a deadly bus station attack has died of his...
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