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About 115 bodies pulled out after refugee boat sinks off Egypt coast
Sep 23, 2016 12:59Egyptian rescue workers have pulled out from the Mediterranean Sea the bodies of more than a hundred refugees whose boat recently capsized near the coast of Egypt.
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Egypt detains 4 suspected traffickers tied to deadly boat incident
Sep 22, 2016 14:55Egyptian authorities have arrested at least four people in connection with the deaths of a group of refugees whose boat recently capsized in the Mediterranean.
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Refugee boat capsizes off Egypt, 29 die
Sep 21, 2016 11:52A boat transporting hundreds of refugees to Europe has capsized off the Mediterranean coast near the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 29 people.
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Sudan hosting 400k South Sudan refugees: Minister
Sep 21, 2016 11:52Sudan says it is hosting about 400,000 refugees, who fled the civil war in South Sudan that erupted in late 2013.
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Two summits held at UN on refugee crisis were failures: HRW
Sep 21, 2016 11:50The Human Rights Watch (HRW) says two recent summits on the global refugee crisis held at the United Nations (UN) were dismal failures.
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Refugee workers remain unpaid in Qatar
Sep 20, 2016 13:43Qatar has once again faced criticism over the way it deals with refugee workers, with reports saying a significant number of laborers, mostly from India, have gone unpaid for months.
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Over 300,000 have crossed Mediterranean this year: UNHCR
Sep 20, 2016 08:54The United Nations refugee agency says more than 300,000 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in the hope of reaching the wealthy European countries.
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Iran calls for global efforts to tackle refugee crisis
Sep 20, 2016 08:42Iran’s Interior minister has called for a global contribution to the safe repatriation of the refugees and migrants hosted by the Islamic Republic for many years.
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Rights groups urge boycott of Hungary's anti-refugee vote
Sep 15, 2016 02:59Two dozen human rights groups have urged voters in Hungary to boycott an “inhumane” government-sponsored referendum on relocating refugees.
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UK charity says child refugees denied fundamental rights
Sep 15, 2016 02:38A UK-based charity has warned that chronic underfunding of aid programmes is having a devastating impact on child refugees around the world.