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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has created a refugee team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The members have no home country to play for in the games.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Austria vowed to press ahead early on Friday with plans to cap the number of asylum seekers entering the country despite claims the move would break the law, as European Union leaders struggled to end their fragmented

Selin Gören, member of the “Linksjugend Solid,” a far-left German youth organization, was reportedly sexually assaulted by a refugee on January 27. After an initial false report that she had been assaulted by “foreigners and Germans alike,” she revised her story before taking to Facebook to apologise for any “racism” that might be caused by the revelation that her alleged assailant was a migrant.

A U.S. judge sentenced 26-year-old Madhi Hashi — a one time Somali migrant to the United Kingdom — to nine years on Friday for joining Islamic terrorist organization al-Shabaab in Somalia. Between December 2009 and August 2012 Hashi was a member

(AFP) – About 40 rebels from German chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party have sent her a letter demanding an about-face on her liberal refugee policy. Citing slipping poll numbers and mounting scepticism among Germans about the country’s ability to handle

Copenhagen (AFP) – Denmark’s parliament was on Wednesday to begin debating a controversial plan to seize refugees’ valuables, with the bill widely expected to pass a January 26 vote after being backed by a majority of lawmakers. The bill, proposed

The sex mobs committing assaults en masse in Cologne this New Year’s Eve were coordinated or planned, and may have been linked to similar attacks seen across Germany and continent, the police and a German minister have said. “For such a horde

(AFP) – The European Union said Thursday it is far from satisfied with Turkey’s cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants to Europe after a landmark deal clinched late last year. More than one million refugees and migrants have flooded

A gang of migrants have revolted in their tiny host town in rural Italy, emptying bins in the street in protest of the fact that they have not been provided with free Wifi or a cleaner. The asylum seekers, who cannot

The United Nations insists critics of its predominant refugee agency, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), are “misinformed” when it comes to their questions over why the agency seems to resettle very few Christian refugees from the Middle East.

After an Algerian and a Syrian living in the same migrant centre were jailed for raping a Swedish women multiple times, concerned locals held an anti mass-migration protest. Only then did an infuriated local social justice group hold their own demonstration… in support of

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

Islamic extremists have tried to get into the U.S. via the refugee program, but that the Obama administration hasn’t made that public yet, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) announced Monday.

We’re often told the migrants making their way across the Mediterranean are “fleeing war” and that as a result, we need to take them all into Europe.  This may be the case for a number of Syrians whose lives have

President Barack Obama hit Republicans for suggesting the U.S. should favor Christian refugees over Muslims. But there are very good reasons to apply a religious test to Syrian refugees.

Sen. Jeff Sessions said Wednesday the refugee bill that the House of Representatives is considering, The American SAFE Act, doesn’t protect the interests of the American people.

More than half of America’s fifty governors—including a Democrat—refuse to accept President Obama’s Syrian refugees. Unfortunately for them, federal law allows the president to resettle as many refugees as he wants. But Congress can stop him.

In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, a citizen petition-drive demanding that the White House place a moratorium on all refugee resettlement from the Middle East has been initiated. The stated goal is to collect at least 100,000 signatures by December 14.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is the latest in a growing list of governors who have rejected Obama’s plan to allow Syrian refugees into the United States.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is introducing new legislation in the Senate to halt Syrian refugees from obtaining visas to enter the United States, and told Breitbart News that he supports the governors from several states who have decided not to accept Syrian refugees under the Obama Administration’s increased refugee resettlement program.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is calling on House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and GOP leadership to block President Obama’s plan to bring in more refugees from Syria into the United States.

Breitbart News asked McCain and the other panelists whether they consider the movement of tens of thousands of migrants and designated refugees from countries with known terrorist contingents to pose a threat to national security in the U.S. The immigration status of each of the Boston Bombers was referenced as an example. One of the brothers had received legal status prior to the attack and the other had been in the process.

Berlin (AFP) – Almost declared dead only months ago, Germany’s populist far-right is seeking a comeback amid a record wave of asylum-seekers, hoping to anchor itself in mainstream politics.

A short film has been released documenting the distress and sense of betrayal felt by Syrian women and families, abandoned by the men who have migrated to Europe amid the civil war. In the film, made by Citizen Journalism platform

The number of migrants claiming asylum in Britain hit a six-year high in July amid the on-going refugee crisis, making the UK the fourth largest recipients of asylum seekers in Europe. In just one month 4,305 people and their dependants

French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has published a controversial set of cartoons about Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose death generated international outrage when photos of the boy’s deceased body surfaced online, The Independent reports.

A Hungarian camerawoman has been fired after being caught on video near Roszke, Hungary tripping and kicking migrant families entering Hungary across the border with Serbia. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

A man who tore pages out of the Koran and threw them in the toilet ended up being chased by an angry mob through the streets of a refugee shelter in Suhl, Germany this week.

On his Tuesday show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh took on remarks made by Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) at a campaign event declaring the U.S. immigration system to be in the need of reform. According

In 2007, Ann Corcoran successfully stopped the State Department from discreetly unloading Muslim refugees in her hometown in Maryland, and now she has written a book directing other Americans to do the same, warning that the immigration is part of a religious obligation to spread Islam.

Out of the 11,300 refugees in the U.S., 4,430 speak Arabic.

The government of Uruguay received international acclaim for its decision last year to accept a high number of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, citing the need for countries across the world to participate in saving the lives of those attempting to escape. It is now reneging on its promise, at least in part: only women and children will be allowed to relocate to Syria, with the government citing a need to quell domestic violence.

Lebanon has implemented a new law requiring Syrian refugees to retain a visa before entering the country in an attempt to limit the prodigious flow of refugees from war-torn Syria into their nation.