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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended its so-called “rescue” missions ferrying migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.

A new survey of Muslim migrants in Austria by the Danube University of Krems shows a distinct difference between typical Austrian values and those of incomers from places like Somalia and Chechnya, who hold far more religious views on society.

Recent arrivals from Somalia and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa were among the refugees interviewed for possible jobs by 30 Starbucks managers at a hiring event in El Cajon, California on Tuesday as part of the company’s commitment to hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

The number of illegal migrants travelling to Spain by sea or forcing the borders of its North African exclaves has risen so much that it may soon overtake Greece as the second major entry point to Europe, according to the United Nations Migration Agency.

Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

The nations sharing a border with Venezuela, increasingly on the brink of civil war, are bracing for an influx of tens of thousands of refugees, most having crossed into Cúcuta, Colombia, and Roraima, Brazil.

Illegal migrants in and around Calais, France, have made at least 17,000 attempts to board lorries or trains or breach the Channel Tunnel in 2017, according to French statistics.

A video purportedly showing heinous beatings and inhumane treatment of Syrian refugees by Turkish troops has prompted authorities in the country to arrest the service members.

Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter ordered his naval forces to confront foreign ships entering Libyan waters without military permission. The ships most likely to be confronted are Italian boats sent at the request of Libya’s internationally-recognized civilian government to help manage the migrant crisis.

Libya’s strongest warlord has issued a warning to Italian ships being deployed to help turn back migrant boats inside the country’s territorial waters.

The Chief Security Adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has warned that the three-pronged assault on the European Union’s external borders at Greece, Italy and Spain is intensifying.

The UK should double the number of refugees it takes in, a senior United Nations (UN) official has urged, claiming asylum seekers “revive” parts of the country.

The Washington Post did not reveal anything new by publishing transcripts Thursday of President Donald Trump’s telephone conversations earlier this year with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Following President Donald Trump’s major White House endorsement of immigration overhaul legislation, the open borders lobby and corporate business interests are teaming up to attack the proposal.

The propaganda press is already trying to have a field day with the Trump telephone transcripts that were just released, showcasing his conversations with the President of Mexico and Prime Minister of Australia. They think the calls make him look

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living along the eastern border of Lebanon have refused a deal that would have allowed them to return home, citing the miserable and dangerous conditions that persist in their country of origin.

Reports suggest the Hamburg knife killer has boasted that he wanted to be a “terrorist” — but German police are reluctant to accept his confession and seeking to establish that he was mentally ill instead.

The migrant heaved a large glass bottle at police and rushed at them after stabbing a bus driver in the chest three times.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected the advice of one of its own Advocates-General to rule that migrants can be sent back to the bloc’s border states, effectively overturning the “open door” policy ushered in by Germany’s Angela Merkel in 2015 – but, contradictorily, it also appears set to uphold a scheme to redistribute migrants from those border states to other EU members.

Very few refugees have been resettled in the United States in the week following the Supreme Court order that stayed a lower court’s reversal of President Trump’s 50,000 annual ceiling for refugee arrivals in FY 2017.

Italian police detained several dozen people Wednesday outside Milan’s main train station as the city deals with a new wave of migrants.

An Obama-era refugee deal that will resettle more than 1,200 Middle Easterners in the U.S. and tens of thousands of their foreign family members in years to come is an apparent departure from President Donald Trump’s promise of putting “America First.”

The Trump Administration will resettle foreign refugees from the Middle East that are currently in detention centers in Australia.

Amnesty International released a report on Monday warning of sexual violence “on a massive scale” in South Sudan, leaving thousands to battle “mental distress and stigma with nowhere to turn for help.”

The Minister-President of Bavaria has said he expects the “migration wave” to continue and demanded Angela Merkel’s government do more to ease it.

New ONS figures show that up to 98 per cent of the population growth in some English cities over the last decade can be attributed to mass immigration.

An immigrant shouted ‘I want to die for Allah’ as he was escorted away after attacking a police officer with a knife in Italy.

In the five days since U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ruled the Trump administration must include grandparents and other distant relatives as “bona fide relationships” when determining eligibility for visa applications and participation in the federal refugee resettlement program, new refugee arrivals have trickled to a virtual stop.

New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that mothers born outside the UK accounted for 28.2 per cent of live births in England and Wales in 2016.

Italy is considering a “nuclear option” to ease its migrant burden: approving emergency visas so arrivals can move on into Northern Europe.

A German court has sentenced a 25-year-old Syrian citizen to three years in prison for membership in a foreign terrorist organisation.

Dr Zoltán Kovács hit back at “cynical and dishonest” claims by EU officials that criticism of the billionaire open borders is anti-Semitic.

A Serbian homosexual couple who applied for asylum in Germany were brutally beaten almost to death by residents in an asylum home earlier this week, according to a gay rights activist.

As the Trump Administration reviews reforms to the immigration system, seven priority measures emerge.

Under President Donald Trump, more Christian refugees have been admitted to the United States in the first six months of 2017 than Muslim refugees, a departure from the Obama-era.

Israel on Wednesday denied that it agreed to a slowdown in settlement construction as part of any future peace talks.