October 13, 2016 Portuguese ex-PM elected next UN secretary-general The 193 United Nations member states of the General Assembly on Thursday elected Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres as the next secretary-general of the UN.
October 11, 2016 Wheelchair-bound woman raped by refugees at Sweden asylum center, police say A wheelchair-bound woman was gang raped by six asylum seekers, Swedish police have said.
October 7, 2016 Refugees reportedly found hiding inside frigid truck near London British authorities on Friday detained 15 refugees who were discovered hiding inside an ice-cold freezer truck carrying frozen potatoes imported from the Netherlands.
October 6, 2016 UK Independence Party lawmaker hospitalized after fight with colleague Feuding in Britain's fractious, right-wing UK Independence Party erupted into violence Thursday that left a member of the European Parliament hospitalized with a head injury after an "altercation" with a colleague.
October 3, 2016 Hungary hopes to deploy thousands of 'border hunters' in bid to stop migrants Hungary is recruiting thousands of so-called “border hunters” to patrol its razor-wire boundary fence, planning to equip the special unit with night-vision goggles, riot gear and dogs in an effort to keep migrants at bay, The Washington Post reported.
October 2, 2016 Low turnout invalidates Hungary ballot on EU refugee quotas Hungarians overwhelmingly supported the government in a referendum on Sunday called to oppose any future, mandatory European Union quotas for accepting relocated asylum seekers.
September 25, 2016 'Unacceptable': French president vows to shutter squalid refugee camp French President Francois Hollande on Saturday confirmed plans to close the squalid Calais migrant camp known as "the Jungle," saying he hopes authorities can relocate as many as 9,000 migrants to reception centers across France in the coming weeks.
September 21, 2016 Packed refugee boat capsizes off Egypt, killing dozens A boat carrying African migrants headed to Europe capsized off the Mediterranean coast near the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Wednesday, killing at least 42 people, Egyptian authorities said.
September 20, 2016 A call to action on World Refugee Day As the school year kicks off many American kids are seeing their global counterparts (via the news or social media) — hungry, alone and scared — in countries like Syria, Central America, Africa and elsewhere.
September 15, 2016 Far-right group, asylum-seekers fight in German town Dozens of police officers intervened as groups of far-right Germans and young asylum seekers clashed in an eastern German town that has previously seen racist incidents, officials said Thursday.
