Letters: We need a plan for admitting migrants
Re: Muslim Europe?, Matthew Fisher, Sept. 12; Open The Doors But Guard Them, editorial; How To Spin A Surplus, John Ivison, both, Sept. 15. There have been reports the Islamic State of Iraq & the...
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Hungarian police fire tear gas canisters directly into the crowd as refugees...
HORGOS, Serbia — Hungarian police used tear gas and water cannons on hundreds of migrants who broke through a razor wire fence on the border with Serbia on Wednesday, while migrants prevented from...
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Refugee crisis reverberates across Europe as Croatia accepts 5,600 refugees...
Croatia wavered in its commitment to accept a growing influx of migrants after 5,600 refugees poured into the country in one day, underscoring the massive task facing Europe as people flee war and...
View ArticleLetters: Fixing the refugee mess
National Post readers answer the question: “What should be done to help solve the migrant crisis?” Set up training camps While NATO countries should take care of the women and children, they should...
View ArticleLetters: EU membership is a two-way street
Re: A Word In Hungary’s Defence, Bálint Ódor, Sept. 22. Nobody is attempting to impose an immigration model on Hungary, nor is there any attempt to change the cultural composition of his country, as...
View ArticleLetters: Hungary shooting the messenger
Re: Hungary’s Slow Slide, András B. Göllner, Sept. 15; A Word In Hungary’s Defence, Bálint Ódor, Sept. 22; Muslim Europe, George Jonas, Sept. 23. Hungary’s ambassador to Canada is fuming. He accuses...
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Half a million migrants crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in 2015 so far,...
More than half a million migrants have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean sea into European Union countries this year, arriving in the hundreds of thousands in Greece and Italy....
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Masked attackers puncture rafts, remove engines of migrant boats en route to...
As Europe grapples with the rising tide of migrants, asylum seekers are facing opposition and, in some cases, violence from locals. Human Rights Watch said Thursday that asked men – often armed – have...
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Cold weather isn’t deterring refugees: 11,500 people reportedly crossed into...
BRUSSELS — As thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others kept up their relentless march through the Balkans, European leaders held an emergency summit Sunday to find ways of easing the plight of those...
View ArticleThe Masked Men of Zuwarah: The group of armed Libyans that is hunting down...
ZUWARAH, Libya — As a pair of black SUVs sped toward us across the coastal scrubland of western Libya, it was hard not to feel a twinge of apprehension. After all, in the lawlessness that prevails four...
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Greek PM lashes out at Europe after two shipwrecks leave 31 people – mostly...
Warning, graphic images LESBOS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister lashed out Friday at European “ineptness” in handling the continent’s massive immigration crisis after 31 more people — mostly children...
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Mayor says there’s no more room left on Greek island of Lesbos to bury dead...
Warning: Graphic images The mayor of the Greek island of Lesbos says there’s no more room to bury the increasing number of asylum-seekers killed in shipwrecks of smuggling boats coming in from nearby...
View ArticleLetters on the migrant crisis: Charity begins at home
Re: Take the time, do it right, Matt Gurney, Nov. 2. Matt Gurney is right in advocating Canada take the time to do Middle East immigration properly. He stresses taking in families, especially...
View ArticleEU countries relocated 116 refugees out of 160,000 they committed to take in...
Of the 160,000 refugees that European Union member states promised to take in from Italy and Greece as part of emergency measures introduced in September, 116 have been relocated thus far. On...
View ArticleSeven children trapped inside a boat cabin die after migrant vessel sinks off...
ANKARA, Turkey — A wooden boat carrying dozens of migrants sank off the Turkish coast on Wednesday, killing 14 people including seven children stuck inside the vessel’s cabin, officials and reports...
View ArticleFishermen discover the body of a 4-year-old Syrian girl among the rocks of a...
Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have recovered the body of a 4-year-girl who was among a group of 10 migrants reported missing after a boat sank on its way to Greece. A young #refugee...
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How a Yazidi family fled a ‘shattered’ Iraq, risked death on the Aegean and...
HEIDELBERG , Germany — The Qasus do not normally cry, but this felt nothing like normal. Like hundreds of thousands before them and untold more to come, the Iraqi family had just completed a...
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At least 10,000 child migrants have disappeared in Europe and some could be...
ROME, Italy — At least 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have disappeared in Europe, the EU’s criminal intelligence agency has said, as it warned many could be in the hands of traffickers. Louisa...
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Up to 10,000 migrants jam Greek-Macedonia border as EU countries impose new...
IDOMENI, Greece — On foot or by taxi, hundreds of exhausted refugee families trying to reach Western Europe flocked Tuesday to a burgeoning tent city on Greece’s border with Macedonia, which has not...
View ArticleGjorge Ivanov: Europe’s deepening migrant crisis
The migrant and refugee crisis is deepening and reaching a critical level. It used to take refugees and migrants six to eight months to reach their destination countries. Now they can do it in just a...
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