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IOM to fly 10,000 refugees out of Libya in 2017
Mar 31, 2017 16:41Up to 10,000 refugees stranded in Libya will be flown back to their home countries this year, but the returns can only play a limited role in tackling migrant flows toward Europe, the head of the UN migration agency's Libyan office said.
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Number of Syrian refugees passes 5 million: United Nations
Mar 30, 2017 10:10The United Nations says the number of refugees, who have fled the foreign-backed militancy in Syria, has now gone beyond the five million mark.
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About 146 feared dead after boat capsizes in Mediterranean: UN
Mar 29, 2017 13:26A rubber boat packed with refugees has sank in the Mediterranean, with the presumed sole survivor saying that he believes all other passengers drowned, the International Migration Organization (IOM) says.
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Saudi attack on Somali refugee boat likely war crime: HRW
Mar 27, 2017 12:10Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a recent deadly aerial aggression on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, “apparently” carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition, likely amounts to “war crime.”
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Egyptian court jails 56 over refugee boat shipwreck
Mar 26, 2017 09:57An Egyptian court sentenced 56 people to prison terms of up to 14 years on Sunday over the capsizing of a boat that killed over 200 people, one of the deadliest disasters in the dangerous Mediterranean crossings of migrants to Europe.
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Refugee boat capsizes off Turkey, 12 killed
Mar 24, 2017 14:42A boat carrying 22 Syrian refugees has capsized off Turkey's Aegean coastal town of Kusadasi, leaving at least 12 people dead and three others unaccounted for.
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Hundreds feared dead as refugee boat sinks off Libya
Mar 24, 2017 03:56Around 250 African migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean after a charity's rescue boat found five corpses and two partially submerged rubber dinghies off Libya, a spokeswoman has said.
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Turkey threatens to cancel refugee deal in row with EU
Mar 16, 2017 16:35Turkish President Rajab Tayyib Erdoghan has threatened to end a contentious agreement with the EU, aimed at halting the refugee influx into the continent as tensions between the two sides continue to escalate.
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About 1,300 rescued refugees arrive in Italy's Sicily
Mar 05, 2017 17:14About 1,300 refugees have arrived in the island of Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, Italian authorities say.
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Pro-refugee rally eclipses far-right demo in Germany
Mar 05, 2017 10:43Scores of anti-refugee demonstrators have staged a rally in western Germany to denounce the country’s asylum policy but have been dwarfed in numbers by a massive group of counter-protesters.