TEHRAN, July 01 - President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Sunday, July 1, just a few days after seeing the ruined villages in neighboring Rakhine state, where the refugee s were from.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned that he will block a joint statement from European Union members on refugee s if it fails to address Rome’s concerns on the issue.
TEHRAN, June 25 - Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has called on a visit to Tripoli for processing centers to be set up south of Libya's borders as a way to block attempts by refugee s to cross the Mediterranean.
TEHRAN, June 21 - Authorities in Finland and Belarus, which share border with 2018 World Cup host Russia, say refugee s are using Fan IDs issued for visits to the country during the tournament to try to enter the European Union.
TEHRAN, June 20 -At least 60 refugee s were killed after their rubber dinghy sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya last week, survivors have said.
TEHRAN, June 13 -Italy's new economy minister Giovanni Tria postponed a meeting with his French counterpart in Paris on Wednesday as a diplomatic row spiraled over Rome's refusal to take in an overcrowded migrant ship.
TEHRAN, June 04 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure at home over a growing scandal gripping the country’s migration agency, which is charged with having granted asylum to more than 1,000 refugee s in exchange for bribes at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Protesters took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to march in support of undocumented refugee s and against a new asylum bill that is heading to the French Senate.
TEHRAN, May 31 -Lebanese and Syrian officials are working together to facilitate the return of thousands of refugee s who want to return to Syria, a Lebanese official says.
TEHRAN, May 29 -France’s President Emmanuel Macron has offered citizenship to an illegal Malian refugee who earlier risked his own life to rescue a child hanging from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Belgian prosecutors say a two-year-old Kurdish girl, who died after police chased a van carrying illegal refugee s in southern Belgium, was found with a fatal “bullet” wound.
TEHRAN, May 9 - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reaffirms its stance on the necessity of resettlement of refugee s held in offshore detention centers to Australia in order to ensure their decent living conditions, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR Regional Representation in Canberra told Sputnik on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, May 8 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says many refugee s arriving in Yemen from Africa continue to suffer from rampant abuse in the southern areas controlled by the Arab country’s ousted government.
TEHRAN, April 22 - A new analysis on the number of foreign refugee s expected to be admitted to the US in the fiscal year 2018 indicates that the Trump administration is set to admit fewest refugee s in the country since 1980.
TEHRAN, November 9-A refugee who allegedly raped and murdered a 19-year-old girl in Germany and claimed he was “underage” turns out to be in his twenties, experts told a court on Tuesday. A tooth the accused kept from a dentist visit proved not-so lucky for him after lab analysis.
TEHRAN, November 7 -Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to restore water, food, and power services to a refugee detention center that has been abandoned by Australia on Manus Island, sparking human rights concerns.
TEHRAN, November 3 -Police in Australia have arrested ten protesters during separate student protests in Canberra and Sydney over the country’s abandonment of asylum seekers at a former refuge detention camp in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
TEHRAN, October 25 - President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that lifts his worldwide temporary ban on refugee s entering the United States, but imposes “extreme vetting” for 11 nations.
TEHRAN, October 25 -The United States will temporarily delay processing for refugee s from 11 "high risk" nations, the White House has announced, as a 120-day ban on refugee s entering the country came to an end.