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Four-year-old Afghan boy dies on migrant boat
The body of the boy, identified as Afghan by aid groups, was found in a boat that landed on the island of Chios
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Syrian refugee girls pose as their future selves in inspiring photo shoot
Girls designed and directed their own shoot based on what they want to be when they grow up
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Turkey tries father, smugglers over Syrian toddler's death
They are charged of smuggling migrants and causing the deaths of five people
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Managing the migrant stream
What to do with illegal immigrants has become an issue within an issue
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Turkey to open its border to Syrian refugees 'if necessary': Erdogan
Thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, have fled toward the Turkish border since Friday
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German spy agency says Islamic State sending fighters disguised as refugees
Hans-Georg Maassen says terrorist attacks in Paris show that IS was deliberately planting terrorists among refugees
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Time to salvage core human values
Violence was the only reason Afghans left their homes
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Jordan needs international help over refugee crisis-King Abdullah
King Abdullah said if Jordan was not helped, the refugee crisis would worsen
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Malala seeks to raise $1.4 billion to educate Syrian refugees
Some 700,000 Syrian children living in refugee camps in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries are out of school
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Disappearing cast threatens Danish asylum-seekers ballet
A Pakistani talks about a worsening climate for gay people in Pakistan at a performance at Copenhagen's Royal Theatre
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Clashes in German town targeted by anti-refugee violence
Some 80 far-right demonstrators and 150 counter-protesters showed up in the Black Forest town of Villingen
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German Jews fear rising antisemitism during Mideast refugee influx
Jews still remember Muslims proclaiming "Jews to the gas" in Germany to protest the 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Gaza War
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German family-run businesses say ready to hire refugees: survey
55 per cent, of the companies polled predicted that the arriving refugees would alleviate qualified worker shortage
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Belgian mayor seeks to ban male asylum seekers from pool
Bussche says he has decided to act after an Iraqi man had caught an 11-year-old girl as she came off a slide
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44 drown in migrant boat sinking as Germany seeks Turkish help
The Greek coastguard said they had rescued 74 people after two boats ran into trouble
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French PM says refugee crisis threatening idea of EU: BBC
'We cannot say or accept that all refugees …can be welcomed in Europe' Valls
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German police urge calm as teen rape claim sparks online storm
The incident has been likened to initial police silence over a spate of sex assaults during New Year's festivities
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Fresh Turkey visa law leaves nearly 400 Syrians stranded in Beirut
A new regulation came into force requiring Syrians arriving in Turkey by air and sea to have visas
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On the Island of Lesbos, three university students put skills, not money, to use
Three volunteers give us an account of their time in Lesbos where some 3000 refugees are arriving every day
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Turkey finds bodies of 36 drowned migrants
Tragedies come as EU seeks to push Turkey to halt flow of migrants across its borders in exchange for financial help
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UK grants asylum to Sudanese man who walked through Channel Tunnel
The migrant made global headlines in August when he walked 50 km (31 miles) from France to England
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Sweden imposes ID checks at Danish border to stem migrant flow
For the first time in half a century, Sweden demands photo identification for all travellers from Denmark
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Refugee crisis could shake up German political landscape in 2016
Rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has injected a new element into the political landscape
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Fear and few answers as Turkish police round up Syrian refugees
Turkey denies it is forcing any refugees back to Syria and says it is only rounding up Syrians affiliated with crime
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US readies New Year push to expel migrants
According to reports, hundreds of families living in US whose asylum requests have been denied will be sent home
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Hollywood celebrities speak out on migrant crisis
Support comes against inflammatory remarks in the US to prevent Muslims or Syrian refugees from entering the country
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People who reject Syrian refugees are allies of extremists: UN
Antonio Guterres tells Security Council they cannot be blamed for the terror they are risking their lives to escape
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Hungary accuses Austria of 'stupidity' in refugee crisis
Vienna says that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions
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Germany warns of legal action against EU countries refusing refugees
Slovakia said last month it would complain against EU quota plan to distribute 160,000 migrants across the bloc
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Eighteen migrants drown after boat sinks off Turkey's southwestern coast
Boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Iraq and Syria capsized about 3.5 km off the coast
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Dutch anti-Islam politician Wilders named man of 2015
Wilder's message that he would close the country's borders is gaining traction with some Dutch voters
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Merkel wants to 'drastically reduce' refugee arrivals in Germany
Merkel's conservative critics want her to get the number of arrivals down before three state elections in March
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Muslim-owned cafe in US defaced with Nazi graffiti, set ablaze
Minnesota chapter of CAIR says incident fit a 'pattern' of hate crimes targeting Muslims
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Canadian children recite Naat to welcome Syrian refugees
'Tala al Badru Alayna' was first recited by Ansar, people of Medina who accepted Islam, to the Prophet Muhammad...
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Aid in Aegean
A group of volunteers in Lesbos narrate the tragedy that is unfolding on the Greek island
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Greener pastures: The road to Europe
With the refugee crisis at its peak, Pakistanis hop on the bandwagon of asylum-seekers
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Germany names 'refugees' word of year
Second place went to 'Je Suis Charlie'
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Canada’s Trudeau welcomes first Syrian refugees at Toronto airport
Canadian PM says "we will all remember this day," shortly before greeting refugees, many of them women and children
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US judge denies another Texas request to block Syrian refugees
This is the second attempt by Texas to seek immediate court help to halt the refugees
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Merkel says Afghans coming here for better life will be sent back
'Where refugees come hoping for a better life..that is no reason to get asylum or residency status here' Angela Merkel
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Anti-war protesters march in London on eve of Syria strikes vote
Crowd of4,000 marched from parliament to headquarters of ruling Conservative party and Labour party nearby
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Germany increases security staff to manage refugee influx
More than 690 arson and other attacks have been carried out on refugee centres so far this year
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Slovakia to file lawsuit over EU migrant quotas by mid-December
Few migrants have entered Slovakia on their voyage to western Europe and even fewer asylum seekers have chosen to stay
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EU risks falling like Roman Empire over refugees: Dutch PM
The Dutch government has made the refugee crisis one of the top priorities of its presidency
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Six children die as migrant boats sink off Turkey: report
Turkish coastguards have so far recovered bodies of four Afghan children
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After uproar, German town warms to refugees who took over church
The Protestant church, is the first in Germany to have been set aside for refugees
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Obama Thanksgiving message likens refugees to pilgrims
Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the group who fled religious persecution in England
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Defiant Merkel vows to stand by refugee policy despite security fears
Merkel stressed her commitment saying Germany has a duty to protect those fleeing war and conflict
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Syrian refugees in US fear for those left behind
As Mshymish's American neighbours prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, she longs for a homeland that no longer exists
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Controlling the flow
Chaudhry Nisar made it explicit that deportees would be accepted if there was clear and solid evidence against them