(Business Standard) – French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticised for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as its...
(Sydney Morning Herald) – In the last week, heart-wrenching photographs of dead children on Europe’s shores have re-ignited calls for wealthy western states to reform their...
(New York Daily News) – France and Britain offered to welcome a combined 44,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, as a former State Department...
KARL RITTER, Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Day after day, images of soaked and exhausted parents clutching their glassy-eyed children as they arrive on Europe’s shores...
(BBC) – Libyan workers continue to search for bodies at sea and on shore after two migrant vessels capsized on Thursday. Around 200 people are feared...
KERSTIN SOPKE, Associated Press FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press HEIDENAU, Germany (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel was met with jeers Wednesday as she traveled to a German...
FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press ROME (AP) — A fishing boat crowded with migrants overturned Wednesday in the Mediterranean off Libya as rescuers...
By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News As the international community raise the alarm about the “awful” impact of the...
DALTON BENNETT, Associated Press SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press CREIL, France (AP) — Against the odds, Hamed Kouyate has achieved his childhood dream of escaping African poverty...
UNITED NATIONS (New York Times) — Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, an unprecedented global exodus that has...
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by...
(BBC) – The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and...
(BBC) – At least 200 Senegalese died in the boat disaster off the coast of Libya earlier this month, officials say. More than 750 migrants are...
(BBC) – At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration. At the southern tip of the continent,...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy pressed the EU on Wednesday to devise robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants crossing the...
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Two recent shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea believed to have taken the lives of as many as 1,300 asylum seekers and migrants...
