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Ten suspects have been detained in a large-scale raid to break an international people-smuggling ring that illegally brought Chinese nationals into Germany, authorities said. More than 1,000 officers from the federal police and other law enforcement agencies were involved in the early Wednesday operation that spanned eight states. A total of 101 residential and business premises were searched, including two law firms, federal police in Sankt Augustin near Bonn said. Taking advantage of special rules for foreign skilled workers, the suspected smuggling gang is said to have obtained residence pe...
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Claudia Godid sits on a bed frame and pushes the green headscarf over her face to protect herself from the omnipresent dust. She looks wearily towards the two flagpoles that mark the border between South Sudan and Sudan, a good 100 metres away. She has come to Joda border point from the Sudanese town of Rabak and originally lived in Khartoum. "It was bad, very, very bad," Godid says of the start of Sudan's bloody conflict a year ago. "It was no longer safe – the airstrikes, the shootings. Many women were raped." She wipes away a tear as she recalls horrors and the constant feeling of insecurit...
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The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted sweeping reforms of the European Union's migration and asylum laws, intended to strengthen borders and make the bloc's 27 member states share responsibility. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the reforms will "secure European borders" while "ensuring the protection of the fundamental rights" of migrants. Several of the 10 legal texts approved on Wednesday passed only by narrow margins, with opposition to the reforms coming from both the right and the left. For example, a crisis mechanism designed to deal with sudden influxes of...
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Claudia Godid sits on a bed frame and pushes the green headscarf over her face to protect herself from the omnipresent dust. She looks wearily towards the two flagpoles that mark the border between South Sudan and Sudan, a good 100 metres away. She has come to Joda border point from the Sudanese town of Rabak and originally lived in Khartoum. "It was bad, very, very bad," Godid says of the start of Sudan's bloody conflict a year ago. "It was no longer safe – the airstrikes, the shootings. Many women were raped." She wipes away a tear as she recalls horrors and the constant feeling of insecurit...
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A group of Afghans who were assured admission to Germany landed in Berlin late on Thursday under a programme to take in people who could be potentially targeted by Afghanistan's Taliban government. The flight took off from the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the German migration authorities told dpa on Friday. It did not disclose how many Afghans were on board. According to the Foreign Office, the passengers were approved for entry to Germany under initiatives to protect particularly vulnerable groups from Afghanistan. Around 33,000 people have entered Germany since the various admission procedur...
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Police in Berlin are investigating the possibility of arson after a fire destroyed part of a refugee accommodation centre on the grounds of a former airport on Tuesday. The exact cause of the fire remains unclear, but a Berlin police spokeswoman said that it appeared to start somewhere inside the large tent hall and that, "according to current findings, it can be ruled out that the hall was affected from the outside." The roughly 1,000-square-metre tent that was home to about 300 people was destroyed in the blaze. Those living there had fled the war in Ukraine, but everyone - including childre...
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Police in Berlin are investigating the possibility of arson after a fire destroyed part of a refugee accommodation centre on the grounds of the former Tegel airport on Tuesday. The cause of the fire, which destroyed a large tent hall but did not cause any injuries, still remains unclear, a Berlin police spokeswoman told dpa on Wednesday. The roughly 1,000-square-metre tent was home to about 300 people who had fled the war in Ukraine, but everyone - including children and animals - managed to evacuate safely, according to the fire brigade and the operator of the accommodation centre. Firefighte...
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A fire at a large refugee accommodation centre in Berlin on Tuesday destroyed a temporary lodging but did not cause any injuries, according to the fire brigade. The fire destroyed a roughly 1,000-square-metre tent at the refugee centre, located on the grounds of the former Tegel airport in the German capital. The cause of the fire was initially unclear. A fire brigade spokesman said that the large tent structure has room for 380 people but that all residents were able to evacuate in time. A spokesman for the local refugee agency said that 301 people from Ukraine were living in the tent that bu...
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A fire at a large refugee accommodation centre in Berlin on Tuesday destroyed a temporary lodging but did not cause any injuries, according to the fire brigade. The fire destroyed a roughly 1,000 square metre tent at the refugee centre, located on the grounds of the former Tegel airport in the German capital. A fire brigade spokesman said that the large tent structure housed 380 people but that all residents were able to evacuate in time. The fire did not spread to other tents at the refugee centre, he said, and the situation was "manageable." A thick cloud of smoke could be seen over the form...
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A fire broke out at a large refugee accommodation centre in Berlin on Tuesday afternoon, with a large contingent of the fire brigade on site to battle the blaze. Three temporary structures were reportedly on fire at the refugee accommodation centre, located on the grounds of the former Tegel airport, according to a spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade. A thick cloud of smoke could be seen over the former airport site. The spokesman added that 100 firefighters were on their way to the fire. "We expect several people to be injured," he said.
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