Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani earlier Saturday confirmed Rome’s decision to halt funding for the U.N. agency. Penny Wong, Australia’s foreign minister, made a similar statement on pausing Canberra’s financial support, adding that she welcomed the U.N. agency’s decision to investigate the charges. The U.S. — the U.N. agency’s largest donor — on Friday suspended … Read more
An Israeli drone attack in Jenin City in the occupied West Bank killed at least seven civilians in the early hours of Sunday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The attack followed a raid by the Israeli army in Jenin City and a refugee camp, Al Jazeera reported. A border police officer also was killed … Read more
A recent Freedom of Information request, submitted by the refugee charity Care4Calais, exposed the Conservative Government for forcing refugees out of their temporary accommodations and onto the streets. After having their asylum seeker claims granted and obtaining refugee status, the refugee charity slammed the home office for “telling people – people it has accepted deserve … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Tatyana Margolin is co-founder of STROIKA, with a mission to reverse the tide of rising authoritarianism by building, resourcing and connecting resistance movements around the globe. One can reliably gauge the latest geopolitical upheaval by who is sleeping on the red pullout couch in … Read more
The asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge, as a result of a suspected suicide, has been identified as Leonard Farruku. Farruku, who was first named by The Telegraph newspaper, was a 27-year-old Albanian national. Farruku’s death marks the second time an Albanian national has died in the space of four weeks, following … Read more
ROME — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likened Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Margaret Thatcher as he called on European leaders to channel the old Conservative British leader’s “radicalism” and challenge decades-old rules around refugees. “Thatcher understood that ideas are only important if they can be implemented,” Sunak said in a speech at the … Read more
Appearing on BBC Breakfast this week, Labour Leader Keir Starmer called Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency Rwanda treaty a “performance art”. The Rwanda treaty, which will see all undocumented migrants who have arrived to the UK through the English Channel deported to Rwanda, was ruled “unlawful” by both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme … Read more
