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Turkish president slams EU ‘dictatorship’ against refugee crisis
May 09, 2016 10:53Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the EU of “dictatorship” and “cruelty” over a recent wave of refugees fleeing widespread violence in their home countries.
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Migrant crisis fueled by gas pipelines
May 09, 2016 04:11Much has been written on the migrant crisis and the huge waves of refugees flowing into Europe from war-torn Syria as well as the humanitarian tragedy of this unwanted influx that has led to the death of many men, women and children, such as the 3-year old Syrian Kurdish boy Aylan Kurdi, who washed up dead on Mediterranean shores – a tragedy that grabbed the attention of people around the world, but without realization of the real cause of the conflict and the elements that fuel it.
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How NATO-linked think tanks control EU refugee policy
May 01, 2016 08:53A flood of uncontrolled war refugees from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and other Islamic countries destabilized by Washington’s wrong policy, has created the greatest social dislocation across the EU from Germany to Sweden to Croatia since the end of World War II.
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More than 80 still missing after refugee boat sank off Libya coast: IOM
Apr 30, 2016 12:27More than 80 people are still missing after a boat transporting 110 refugees sank off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, says a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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UN chief censures EU’s ‘restrictive’ refugee policies
Apr 28, 2016 14:21UN chief Ban Ki-moon has censured “increasingly restrictive” policies against refugees arriving in Europe.
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Austria adopts tough measures to curb refugee influx
Apr 27, 2016 15:23The Austrian parliament adopted a controversial bill Wednesday aimed at stemming the flow of refugees into the country despite harsh criticism by rights campaigners and from the neighboring Italy.
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Austria set to toughen refugee laws
Apr 27, 2016 12:20The Austrian parliament is set to introduce some of Europe's toughest asylum laws as the political leadership in the country is becoming increasingly irked by the surge of far-right parties.
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Child refugees face sexual abuse in EU: British politician
Apr 25, 2016 10:38The leader of the Liberal Democrat political party in the United Kingdom says thousands of unaccompanied child refugees currently stranded in Europe face sexual abuse and that the UK should legally admit a portion of them in to protect them from such abuse.
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Merkel calls for refugee 'safe zones' in Syria
Apr 24, 2016 04:40German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is after creating safe zones to shelter Syrian refugees in their own country close to Turkish border, an idea strongly supported by Ankara amid UN and rights groups’ concerns.
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Turkey threatens to abandon refugee deal
Apr 19, 2016 10:18Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warns the EU to uphold its promise to provide visa-free travel for Turks by June or see Ankara walk away from a key refugee deal.