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An Afghan migrant was found dead by the side of the road in Calais in an apparent hit and run as investigators search for a potential suspect in the case. The man, who has not been able to be identified or his age

A high court judge has implied it is right for unaccompanied child asylum seekers to be given preferential access to taxpayer-funded medical treatment and desirable school places.

After the deportation of an Afghan man was halted when a pilot refused to fly with him on board, open borders campaigners in Britain have vowed to target airlines and passengers in their quest to block migrant removals.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Friday that they have filed terrorism and murder charges against a suspected member of Afghanistan’s Taliban whom they accuse of participating in an attack in which an American soldier was killed.

A new survey has shown that although there have been a number of protests against deporting failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan, the majority of the German public agree with the deportations. The study, commissioned by a German magazine and carried

(AP) – A Polish official says three young migrants with no documents are being questioned after illegally entering Poland, hidden in a truck trailer.

Migration Board employees granted permanent residency to as many migrants as possible before new rules to tighten Sweden’s asylum policy came into force, sources told Svenska Dagbladet.

Online profiles of a migrant brought to Britain from Calais under the child refugee relocation scheme have suggested that the youth is 22, not 16 as claimed by the Home Office.

Over 50 Afghan migrants fought among themselves and with police in one of the Austrian capital’s most famous parks and the site of several past migrant crimes. Police were alerted to a massive fight between Afghan migrants at the Venidiger

(AFP) – The number of people internally displaced by war in Afghanistan has doubled since 2012 to 1.2 million, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing government neglect and a lack of international attention. In its report entitled “My children will die

Dozens of young Chechen and Afghan migrants went to war on the streets of Vienna this weekend, inflicting near fatal injuries in the “mass brawl” with knives, iron bars and wooden batons. Afghans have recently overtaken Chechens as the largest immigrant

A gay Afghan migrant has been placed in an asylum home where he shared a room with a former supporter of the Taliban, a group which executed hundreds of homosexuals when they ruled over the Muslim nation. The teenager was housed in

Two Afghan refugees who claimed political asylum in France have been arrested for the attempted rape of a passenger on a Paris train. A 28-year-old woman traveling alone on the Paris RER express train on 9 December found herself under attack from

Police are hunting a group of six men who fired a weapon at a member of the public on Saturday night. The victim, Paul Dale, was unhurt, and the men are believed to be Afghan illegal immigrants who were detained at a service

Britain’s “debt of honour” to Afghan interpreters (one pictured above, his face blurred for security purposes, helping Prince Harry), who worked with British troops during the Afghanistan war is being ignored. Instead bureaucracy is being allowed to get in the way of

Plans to tear down a refugee tent camp and replace it with a “container village” at an Austrian army barracks have provoked a local row. The Mayor of Wals-Siezenheim says the container homes suggest a permanent residential solution, as opposed

Eight people were injured yesterday and riot police intervened to quell the crowd after an argument between residents of a refugee camp in the eastern German city of Dresden threatened to become a full blown battle. EuropeOnline reports 14 police patrol cars