The United Nations on Monday said that the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine has climbed to more than 2.8 million. It has become Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War Two. European Union officials say the number of refugees is likely to reach 5 million. Over one million Ukrainian refugees are in Poland, which […...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday providing for free menstrual supplies for low-income women and girls. The far-right leader signed the executive order at a ceremony for International Women’s Day. The new decree will be funded by a budget of $26 million reaching an estimated 3.6 million people, according to the h...
ANKARA (AA) – A Dutch lawmaker has called for space to be made for “real refugees from Ukraine” and for those “who have no right to stay” to be returned. In an opinion piece published on Monday by the Dutch weekly EW Magazine, Ruben Brekelmans said his party, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy [&he...
About 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed into neighboring countries in 11 days. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Sunday it is the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Previously, the Syrian war was considered the largest global refugee crisis. The UK has rejected opening its borders to Uk...
A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost province Aceh on Sunday, police said. The vessel sailed from a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, arriving shortly after 3 a.m. on a beach in Bireun BIRI YOON district. It carried 114 people, including 58 men, 21 […]...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Bombing innocent civilians “already fully qualifies as a war crime,” Johnson said during Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament. “What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of th...
Several Africans attempting to flee Ukraine as the war rages on have claimed they experienced racist treatment at the border because of their race. Eswatini student Vkile Dlamini, who crossed to Romania from Ukraine, said that she undertook the most difficult journey of her life. “We were exposed to a lot of racism. Police pointed [&hell...
A Canada First Nation tribe said Tuesday that it has located 169 potential graves at the former Grouard Mission site, a residential school known for serious abuse of pupils. The graves were located using ground penetrating radar and a specialized drone, Kapawe’no First Nation officials said at a press conference Tuesday. The mission, als...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of people fleeing Ukraine since Russia launched war on its neighbor nearly a week ago is “extremely worrying,” as some 677,000 refugees have fled the country so far, the head of the UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday in Geneva. Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, and Martin Griffiths, [&helli...
BRUSSELS – EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has said that the EU must prepare to host millions of Ukrainian refugees as the war in Ukraine continues. “It is a dangerous situation with the developments in Ukraine, we have to prepare for millions of refugees to come to the European Union,” Johansson said. She […]
