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Japan’s parliament has approved a revision to an immigration and refugee law that will allow the forced repatriation of asylum seekers after they are denied refugee status twice, a change that rights activists say could lead to their persecution at home

Two of four children in ‘critical’ condition after knife attack by Syrian refugee in Lake Annecy in the Alps on Thursday

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the hospital where preschool children who were wounded in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy were being treated. Four children and two adults were injured in the attack by a Syrian refugee. The president said that their conditions were improving.

Rules quietly changed in ‘huge waste’ of taxpayers’ money as Sunak bids to cut asylum backlog

Home Office will no longer distinguish between people arriving by irregular means and other asylum seekers

The suspect, identified as a Syrian with refugee status in Sweden, repeatedly stabbed a child in a pushchair as part of the horrific attack.

Police detain man after attacks in lakeside playground that left children in critical condition

Initially welcomed, Syrians are increasingly concerned by anti-refugee sentiment and the threat of forced repatriations.

Since April, the war has led to hundreds of civilian deaths and over a million people have become internally displaced or refugees in neighbouring countries

Romanian people smuggler Adrian Constantin, 36 - who acted as a "minder" to assist gang members - was jailed for over three years after being extradited back to the UK to face justice

Refugees are right to protest about being a plan which forces them into unsuitable accommodation. It’s more cruelty by design, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council