Hungry Storm Victims in Southern Philippines Ransack for Food
More than a thousand hungry people who survived the devastation of super typhoon “Pablo” ransacked the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Davao City to protest...
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More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend
Seven migrants drowned Sunday as they attempted to cling to a tuna cage dragged by a Tunisian fishing boat south of Malta. The immigrants were among more than a thousand that have flocked to Italian...
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Dozens dead near Sicily as ship carrying migrants capsizes
Dozens of people died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, in the second such shipwreck this month, the Italian coast guard said. Italian and Maltese...
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Vast Majority of Asylum Applications Rejected in Iceland
Roughly 6.5 percent of applications for asylum in Iceland have been accepted so far this year. A total of 128 of the 137 applications processed by the end of September were rejected, Morgunblaðið...
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Boat carrying Muslim Rohingya sinks off Burma
A boat carrying 70 ethnic minority Muslim Rohingya capsized Sunday off the western coast of Burma, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found. The boat was in the Bay of Bengal and...
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Malaysia: Over 38,000 flood victims throng relief centres in Pahang
Heavy rain continued since early today while the number of flood evacuees at the 116 relief centres in Pahang reached a total of 38,235 at 1.30pm. A spokesman for the flood operations room, state...
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Lybia: Tawerghans struggle to dry out flooded camps
For displaced Tawerghans living in five camps around Tripoli, drying out temporary and overcrowded accommodation after two days of heavy rain is still posing a challenge. While many Tripoli residents...
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Syrian refugees facing extreme hardship as blizzards hit region
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are enduring blizzards, biting winds and freezing rain as the worst winter storm for decades sweeps across the Middle East. Aid agencies are warning of extreme...
View ArticleOver 60 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen
At least 60 African migrants and two Yemeni crew members perished in sea off Yemen’s coast last weekend, in a boat sinking that has just come to light and is believed to be the deadliest there this...
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Mediterranean Shipwrecks Leave Over 700 Refugees Dead
Sep 15, 2014 About 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after the boat carrying them from Egypt to Malta was apparently rammed and deliberately sunk by people-traffickers, an intergovernmental...
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