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French police evict refugees from Paris tent camp
May 09, 2017 10:34Police in France have evacuated about 1,000 refugees, mostly Afghans and Sudanese, from a tent camp in northeast Paris.
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Italy ‘rescues 6,000 refugees in two days’
May 07, 2017 12:34The Italian coastguard says it has rescued some 6,000 refugees, who were crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, in two days.
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15 drown as refugee boat sinks off Greece’s Lesbos
Apr 24, 2017 11:10Greece's coastguard says at least 15 people, including children, have died in a suspected refugee boat sinking off the Aegean island of Lesbos.
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2017 refugee death toll in Mediterranean surpasses 1,000: UN
Apr 22, 2017 05:48Around 100 refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean according to shipwreck survivors, raising the death toll for the perilous crossing to Italy to over 1,000 victims in 2017, the UN’s refugee agency said Friday.
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About 3,000 refugees rescued off Libya coast: Italian coastguard
Apr 16, 2017 06:24Some 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have reportedly been rescued from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast during a second day of operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
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EU leaving refugees to drown, say NGO rescuers
Apr 16, 2017 00:43Charity groups and NGOs have rescued over 2,000 desperate refugees in the rough waters of the Mediterranean in a single day, criticizing the European Union for failing to conduct necessary search and rescue operations to prevent further loss of life.
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Clashes erupt in Australian refugee facility in PNG
Apr 15, 2017 06:44Violence has flared at an Australian asylum-seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and shots were fired when local people tried to break into the center after an argument got out of hand, media and a rights group reported on Saturday.
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UN: Refugees traded in Libya ‘slave markets’
Apr 12, 2017 04:08The United Nations has raised alarm over a climbing number of refugees passing through Libya who are being traded in so-called slave markets before being held for ransom and subjected to malnutrition and sexual abuse.
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Refugees headed to Europe facing systematic abuse, police brutality: MSF
Apr 01, 2017 12:28Thousands of refugees trapped in Serbia have been facing systematic abuse, police brutality and violence as they desperately struggle to seek shelter in Europe.
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Syrian refugee sets self on fire in Greece camp: Video
Apr 01, 2017 09:30A Syrian refugee has set himself on fire in a camp for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece in protest at the dire living conditions there as there is no end in sight to the plight of the refugees stranded across Europe.