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 refugees were from.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned that he will block a joint statement from European Union members on refugees 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 refugees to cross the Mediterranean.
TEHRAN, June 21 - Authorities in Finland and Belarus, which share border with 2018 World Cup host Russia, say refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees 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 refugees expected to be admitted to the US in the fiscal year 2018 indicates that the Trump administration is set to admit fewest refugees 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 refugees entering the United States, but imposes “extreme vetting” for 11 nations.
TEHRAN, October 25 -The United States will temporarily delay processing for refugees from 11 "high risk" nations, the White House has announced, as a 120-day ban on refugees entering the country came to an end.