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A payment card exclusively for asylum-seekers has been introduced in Germany, following the recent parliamentary approval of a new rule. Under the new regulation, migrants are issued a card to access their benefits, which can be used at local stores and for services, but it limits their cash withdrawals and bans international money transfers. The aim is to prevent migrants from sending money to family and friends abroad, or to smugglers. In Eichsfeld, Thuringia, 45-year-old Laca from Albania and her family were among the first in Germany to receive half of their government benefits as cashless...
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A picture of a fake headline from Irish broadcaster RTÉ claims that Ireland has allocated over €100 million-worth of funding for Ukrainian pets. It’s being shared on social media as if it were a legitimate news story, but that’s not the case. The fake screenshot circulating on X uses RTÉ News’s logo and colour scheme and says that the Irish government has signed off on "another €150 million allocation for Ukrainian pet welfare". However there’s no evidence whatsoever that the story is real - an internet search doesn’t yield any results, only fact-checks already debunking the story. Fact-check:...
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Most refugees who arrived in Germany thanks to Angela Merkel's "Open Door" policy have now found work, according to a recent study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). For the cohort who arrived in 2015, the employment rate in 2022 was 64%, compared with 77% for the wider German population. Some 90% of employees in this group were subject to social security contributions, claimed IAB, and the median gross hourly wage for 2015 arrivals was €13.70. This is above the low-wage threshold of €12.50, despite the fact that the mean age of refugees is much lower than the national average. "D...
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European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact. Under a deal concluded between EU leaders and Turkey in 2016, the bloc committed to provide at least €6 billion to Turkey to help it cope with migrants crossing in from Syria. Turkey in turn committed to stop migrants leaving its territory for Europe. In March 2016, a month after the deal came into effect, Turkey's government said the number of migrants crossing illegally into Greece ha...
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Good weather conditions and calm seas have resulted in the resumption of migrant landings on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy's Coast Guard rescued a boat with 45 people that was in trouble near Malta, an 18-year-old Gambian girl died in the shipwreck.
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Last weekend in Dublin, a distressing scene unfolded as numerous asylum seekers were obliged to sleep outside the government's International Protection Office in tents. They had no access to basic necessities – no electricity, no running water, no sanitation. The result could be described as a localised humanitarian disaster. According to Jed, an asylum seeker from Jordan, the recent conditions were deplorable. He described a lack of essential services, including toilets and showers, leaving people without proper hygiene facilities for weeks, enduring harsh weather conditions. Yet as we conduc...
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Children in northern Gaza are dying of starvation, according to the WHO. In a post on X, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported "grim findings" after the WHO visited two hospitals in northern Gaza. "Severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed," he wrote on the social media platform on Monday. At Kamal Adwan Hospital - the only paediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza - Ghebreyesus said a "lack of food" had resulted in the deaths of 10 children. The situat...
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The Polish government has extended the right to stay and assistance for more than one million Ukrainian refugees, but only until 30 June. There is growing concern that the budgets of international aid organisations might be reduced, but their support is still very much needed. "We help people with their taxes and declarations, a lot of pensioners come to us with requests for help, even small things, but they need it very much,” said Svitlana Kotova of the Polish Legal Help and Information Centre. “I think that this help is still important and should still be provided. The war is not over, it i...
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By Srijit Das A collage of two images, one showing a pro-refugee rally in Belgium in 2015 while another showing firefighters trying to extinguish burning vehicles in a Paris suburb is being shared linking the former to the recent unrest in France. In the first image, a large group of people can be seen holding a big banner welcoming refugees with the message, 'They are not dangerous, they are in danger!'. France's President Emmanuel Macron on July 4 said that the country was past the peak of the rioting phase. France has been gripped by spiraling riots over the death of a teenager of Algerian ...
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By BOOM Team Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian refugee, who lived for around 18 years at France's Charles de Gaulle airport died on Saturday there. He died of a heart attack, CNN reported. Nasseri lived at the airport between 1988 and 2006. He was stuck at the airport after he allegedly lost his travel documents when he was on his way to England. Steven Spielberg's 2004 film was inspired by Nasseri's story. CNN quoted the airport officials saying that Nasseri had "returned to live as a homeless person in the public area of the airport since mid-September, after a stay in a nursing home". Also...
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