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UNHCR: Angelina Jolie visits Turkey on World Refugee Day

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has spent World Refugee Day 2015 visiting the country with the highest number of refugees in the world. It is the

Serbia

Serbia responds angrily to Hungary's plan to build a fence along their joint 175 km border

Serbia has responded angrily to Hungary’s plan to build a 175 kilometre border fence between the countries. Details of the four-metre high barrier

Greece

Greeks on Lesbos struggling to help refugees

The Greek island of Lesbos is staggering under the strain of caring for refugees arriving from Turkey. The approximately 80,000 islanders have

My Europe Series

Europe Weekly: Greece debt crisis rumbles on

In this edition of Europe Weekly, Greece’s debt deal negotiations remain deadlocked; Hungary riles Europe once more after announcing it would build a

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Italy

Children’s drawings offer insights into the terror of Syria’s war

Hungary

Hungarian fence is 'barrier to asylum seekers' says UNHCR

Hungary has announced plans to build a fence four-metres high along its border with Serbia to keep out illegal migrants. Many of those seeking to

Iraq

Iraqi refugees return home to Tikrit

Hundreds of people displaced from the Iraqi city of Tikrit have begun returning home. It is three months since pro-government forces recaptured

Syria

Greece sees a large increase in migrants fleeing war and poverty

Some 2000 refugees, mostly from Syria, arrived in the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens on Sunday morning. They arrived on a government-supplied

My Europe Series

Refugee or migrant: what's the difference?

“What is the difference between migrants and refugees?”, asks Panos in Athens. “Are all the European countries applying the same procedures to deal

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Thousands of Syrian refugees flee into Turkey

Iraq

Iraqi people caught in the crossfire of terrorists

Turkey

Turkey's refugees weigh on border voters' minds and wallets

Refugees have become an election concern in Turkey. Our correspondent Bora Bayraktar reported: “Reyhanlı, at Turkey’s with Syria, is one of the towns

Europe News

EU calls for 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy, Greece to be relocated

EU member states should take in some 40,000 asylum seekers, mainly from Syria and Eritrea, who land in Italy and Greece over the next two years, the

Iraq

Exodus from Ramadi to Baghdad continues after bridge re-opened

Thousands of people forced to flee Ramadi and the surrounding area because of the ISIL takeover have been continuing to cross the Euphrates River via

World News

UN refugee chief: 15 million displaced from Syria and Iraq

The United Nations refugee chief said on Saturday the growing humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq were leaving aid agencies struggling to deliver

Burundi

Burundi opposition leader 'shot dead' in Bujumbura

Reports from Burundi say the leader of a small opposition party has been assassinated along with his bodyguard in Bujumbura. According to AFP, Zedi

Iraq

Thousands of Ramadi residents flee towards Baghdad, after ISIL takeover

Thousands more civilians have flooded out of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, now in the hands of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Crowds of people are

World

Greek island of Samos feels strain of migrant influx

Searching for a better life, many migrants increasingly find death in the Mediterranean. Italy’s prime minister has threatened to raise a migrant

World News

Thailand calls May 29 summit on Rohingya 'boat people' crisis

More than 400 migrants adrift at sea, mostly Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been brought ashore to safety by fisherman off the

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EU refusal to accept migrant quotas 'unacceptable'

The debate over European Union migrant quotas has become more heated with the Commission deputy chief saying it is ‘unacceptable’ for EU states to