BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised new measures to prevent irregular migration but ruled out suspending asylum rights, amid calls from opposition parties for a drastic overhaul of migration policy. “The individual right to asylum will remain in place. This is in our constitution, and nobody can get my support to cha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Struggling with a broken economy, the interim Taliban administration in Kabul is seeking international aid to manage the Afghan refugee influx from neighboring Pakistan. “We call on the international community (including) Muslim countries to help,” Taliban’s nominee to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, told reporters, pointing to the rus...
ANKARA (AA) – France will only accept politically persecuted people and not simply irregular immigrants, the interior minister has announced. “France will help Italy protect its borders to prevent more people from coming,” Gerald Darmanin told broadcaster Europe 1, about the latest migration flow to Italy’s Lampedusa is...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Waheed Arian’s life has been shaped by the kindness and compassion of strangers. Now a successful doctor, he arrived in the UK as a 15-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from home in an unfamiliar land. When he needed a roof over his head, a refugee let Arian sleep on […]
