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An eight-year-old girl has suffered life-altering injuries after being stabbed up to 74 times in refugee accommodation.

For Ukrainian and Russian military planners, the clock is ticking, with the approach of winter expected to make fighting more complicated.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s address to the 77th U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday was largely dedicated to his contention that nearly all problems can be solved through “dialogue,” and Turkey is indispensable to every dialogue in the Middle East and Asia.

A survey published this week has shown that the vast majority of “refugees” living in Sweden have vacationed in the country they fled from — though hardly any wish to ever return permanently.

Of the 16 German regional states, just four still have room to accommodate incoming asylum seekers and refugees, as the country struggles to deal with new influxes of migrants coming by the Balkan route.

CARACAS – The Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) announced on Monday that the number of Venezuelan migrants that have so far fled from their country and its socialist regime had reached 6,805,209 by August 5, more than 20 percent of the nation’s population.

A parliamentarian in Ireland has warned of the possibility of “significant conflict” between migrants and Irish citizens.

Afghan refugees who fled their country a year ago after the Taliban seized Kabul organized two days of protests on Monday and Tuesday in United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they have been trapped in a migrant facility with little information regarding any potential departure.

GENEVA (AP) – Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion showed that it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum seekers, and the approach should be replicated to receive those fleeing other nations, the head of the UN refugee agency said.

Afghan refugees have reportedly refused to move to Scotland or Wales for fear that the countries are “too cold” and don’t speak English.

MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.

A refugee from Ukraine with a prior drunk driving conviction was acquitted by a New Hampshire jury on all charges of negligent homicide for the deaths of five United States Marine Corps Veterans and two of their loved ones. 

Populist Matteo Salvini has claimed that just 15 per cent of the illegal immigrants who came to Italy in 2021 were granted refugee status.

The Irish government has suspended visa-free travel for refugees from safe European countries for the next 12 months but has made exemptions for Ukrainian refugees. The Irish government announced the policy change, which will require refugees in safe European countries

President Joe Biden’s federal agencies are making it even easier for Afghans to arrive in the United States despite vetting failures noted by federal officials. 

After promising to take in a limitless number of arrivals from Ukraine, Ireland’s asylum system has crumbled under a massive migrant surge, with the country announcing that it has run out of accommodation on Wednesday.

Around half of the Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion of their country have now returned to Ukraine as the number of Ukrainians entering the European Union has fallen to levels seen prior to the war. European Union home affairs commissioner

Pro-migration groups are using the record death rate among illegal migrants to demand they be hired by the government to safely import more of the coyote-delivered migrants.

The United Nations (U.N.) recently released data showing that the number of Chinese nationals seeking political asylum abroad spiked tenfold from 2012 — when Xi Jinping took office as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — to 2021, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Tuesday.

Comedian Ben Stiller met fellow actor and current president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Monday to return attention to the ongoing, eight-year-old war between that country and Russia on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) sent a letter to the United Nations, demanding information about refugee travel loans, which he says boosts mass migration.

The EU border agency has said more Ukrainian refugees are returning to their country than leaving it despite the ongoing conflict with Russia. 

The military forces of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced on Wednesday that a joint military operation against Islamist insurgents in eastern Congo will be extended into a “third phase” because the enemy has not been “eradicated.”

Afghan refugees dumped into California are struggling to find housing and other help needed to get settled in a new country.

Pope Francis urged a greater welcome for migrants Monday, appealing for a “a broader international awareness” regarding the phenomenon of migration.

House and Senate Republicans who voted to give $40 billion in additional American taxpayer funding to Ukraine also helped rubber stamp $900 million to fund President Joe Biden’s mass immigration priorities. 

An Afghan migrant who worked as security at German asylum accommodation has been accused of sexually abusing two Ukrainian refugee children aged six and seven.

Some have expressed concern that a British reception scheme for Ukrainian refugees may be exploited, putting women at risk of abuse.

A German court has ruled that deportation orders are valid even if migrants are unable to secure a sustainable livelihood in the long term after returning to their county of origin.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released figures claiming that over five million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion in February. According to the UNHCR, a total of 5,034,439 Ukrainians have fled

ROME — Pope Francis met privately with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the Vatican Thursday, honoring him with a St. Martin medallion for Hungary’s generous reception of Ukrainian refugees.

Pope Francis thanked the people of Poland Wednesday for their generous reception of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country.

The Reuters news agency reported on Monday that the administration of President Joe Biden has scheduled a meeting with representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba to discuss “migration concerns” – namely, to convince the regime to take back members of an ethnic group that, in America, disproportionately votes Republican.

While millions of Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion, nearly a million have now gone home.

Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s border guard agency says that about 2,200 Ukrainian men of fighting age have been detained so far while trying to leave the country in violation of martial law.