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QUEZON City, Philippines (September 23) – Food and water shortage, bombings, and wrecked homes; these are just some of the problems that the citizens of Syria are facing right now. Since the war began in 2011, thousands of refugees had fled the land to search for a place that will provide them food and shelter. It is alarming that their number is increasing considering that many host countries are incapable of catering to their needs. From […]
QUEZON City (September 11) – Syria’s civil war is an ongoing armed conflict and is said to be the worst humanitarian disaster of our time. The civil war in Syria started in 2011 because of the massive anti-government opposition demonstrations against the Ba’athist government of Bashar al-Assad and eventually escalated into a full-scale conflict. The civil war has left hundreds and thousands of casualties, with many more wounded. The plight of the citizens of Syria has […]
BELGIUM, Europe, September 10 (Eagle News) — The European Union announced that it has completed a comprehensive plan regarding the refugee situation that the continent is facing, with the 140, 000 refugees being divided among the member-states. Most of the refugees are asylum-seekers from Syria. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/_olwlJAIGhg
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 9 (Reuters) — The initiative from FC Porto proposing that European soccer clubs should help refugees has been adopted unanimously by the European Club Association (ECA) after the election of a new Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday (September 8). As Europe struggles with a migration crisis with 380,000 people arriving in the continent by sea this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), European clubs have decided to […]
ROSZKE, Hungary, September 9 (Reuters) — A Hungarian camerawoman was reportedly fired from her job on Tuesday (September 8) amid allegations that she tripped up refugees as they fled from police in Hungary. A migrant carrying a child was photographed falling after tripping on the camerawoman while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village. Hungary’s N1TV, who she worked for, later issued a statement condemning the woman’s alleged behavior. Tens of thousands […]
HUNGARY, September 8 (Reuters) — Migrants and refugees walking through Hungary complained on Monday (September 7) that police were preventing them from making their way to Budapest. The police initially escorted the group, who were heading to the Hungarian capital after leaving a migrant camp on the border. At Roszke, on Hungary’s frontier with Serbia, around 300 migrants broke through a cordon around a reception camp and set off down the wrong side of the […]
(Reuters) — The German government decided to free up additional three billion euros ($3.35 billion) for federal states and municipalities to help cope with this year’s record influx of refugees and migrants, a joint statement by the ruling coalition issued on Monday (September 7) said. At a high-level meeting that lasted more than five hours, leaders from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition also agreed on a series of other measures, such as speeding up asylum […]
(REUTERS) The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday (July 9). UNHCR said that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. Some 630,000 Syrians are now living in Jordan, according to the UNHCR figures. But having escaped their war-torn homes, many of the refugees have found their new lives a struggle. According to the UNHCR […]
