COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – Syrian refugees in Denmark should return to their home country now that conditions have changed following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, the Danish premier has said. Mette Frederiksen’s remarks came during the Prime Minister’s Question Time in response to a query from Inger Stojberg, chairman of ...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
LONDON (AA) – Finland’s Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has said that the country’s refugee quota plan is discriminatory on religious grounds. The assessment came after the government announced that it will reduce the number of refugees accepted from Muslim-majority countries while increasing the number from Christian countries. According t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least seven Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a college building housing displaced people in Gaza City, a medical source confirmed. The attack targeted the Namaa College building, where hundreds of displaced Palestinians had taken shelter northwest of Gaza ...
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...
Rennes, France — AFP When Israeli air strikes hit his neighbourhood early on in the war on Gaza, Palestinian social worker Tareq Abu Eita, 42, saw his whole life upended in seconds. The vicious Israeli bombardment on October 14 blew in the walls of his two-storey family home. It killed his 77-year-old father Hamed, his […]
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The administration of the Indian occupation in Jammu and Kashmir has granted land ownership rights to refugees who had migrated to the region from then West Pakistan. Thousands of refugees migrated to Indian-occupied Kashmir in 1947 as well as after the 1965 India-Pakistan War. The Indian administrative counc...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Distress calls are coming in from people injured by Israeli attacks on Rafah in southern Gaza, but Israeli military vehicles are keeping rescuers out, says the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. “We’re getting distress calls from injured and trapped people in the Al Qarya as Suwaydiya area in western Rafah, but [&hell...
Washington, United States — AFP Israel has taken US concerns into account as it wages an unprecedented military operation in the battered Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with refugees, a senior United States official has said. “It’s fair to say, I think the Israelis have updated their plans. They’ve incorporated man...
BERLIN (AA) The number of attacks targeting asylum seekers and refugee centers almost doubled in 2023, according to figures recently made public. German police registered 2,378 attacks targeting refugees last year, up from 1,248 attacks recorded in 2022, according to the official figures by the Interior Ministry. At least 219 people were injur...
