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Germany revises down 2015 figure of refugees taken in
Sep 30, 2016 14:48Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says new centralized figures show that 890,000 refugees were received by the country last year, revising down a previous number of 1.1 million.
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Danish FM gives reassurance to Turkey on EU deal granting Turks visa-free travel
Sep 29, 2016 16:22Denmark says Brussels will keep its promise to grant Turks visa-free travel to the European Union, if Ankara carries out its side of a controversial deal to stem the flow of refugees into the EU countries.
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Amnesty slams Hungary’s treatment of refugees
Sep 28, 2016 05:40Amnesty International has slammed the government in Hungary for the alleged ill treatment of refugees on its soil and those asylum-seekers planning to enter the country.
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Sweden charges three men over refugee trafficking
Sep 23, 2016 13:39Prosecutors in Sweden have charged three men with organizing the trafficking of 170 refugees from Italy to Scandinavia in northern Europe.
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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.