Tag: refugees
At least nine Syrian refugees struggling to reach Greece have drowned in two separate incidents after their boats overturned in Turkish waters, a coastguard official from Turkey says. In the first incident, three people were ...
The number of Syrians who have fled abroad since the outbreak of civil war in their country has risen to more than 4 million, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the ...
Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The ...
An international medical aid organization has expressed concern over the threat posed by a severe lack of food to the lives of thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) who have sought shelter ...
