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Home affairs asked Labor to extend support for asylum seekers as housing market worsens

Exclusive: Refugee advocates say nothing yet done to improve supports and they fear for people who end up with none

The Guardian - AU

Comedian Alex Brooker close to tears after meeting children who fled war-torn Syria

Soccer Aid star Alex Brooker formed a special bond with a disabled girl called Elan who had a 3D hand fitted thanks to a partnership with UNICEF at the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan

Daily Mirror

Government set to create 10,000 more refugee spaces, Leo Varadkar says

The Taoiseach said the first "couple of hundred" of these would come on-stream in "the next couple of weeks" and that the new spaces would help hotels and B&Bs currently housing refugees to reopen for tourists

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Cuban refugee escaping torture shocked by 'inhumane' immigration detention centre hell

Manuel Vega was detained and tortured by police in Cuba. He told the Mirror he was "shocked and terrified" to suffer the same treatment in the US while seeking asylum, where he was supposed to be protected

Daily Mirror

‘Everyone is asking why’: Annecy locals try to make sense of knife attack on children

The stabbing of four toddlers has united inhabitants of the picture-postcard French town but also left them heartbroken and baffled

The Guardian - UK

Japan OKs refugee law change allowing forced repatriation of asylum seekers after repeated rejection

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

The Independent UK

Annecy stabbings: Children including British girl remain in intensive care after France playground attack

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

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Macron visits victims as France reels from knife attack on children in Annecy

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.

France 24

Braverman scraps Patel’s flagship asylum rules after less than a year because hers are ‘stronger’

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

The Independent UK

Key plank of new UK asylum law dropped to cut backlog

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

The Guardian - UK

British child among four severely injured after French playground knife attack - OLD

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

The Independent UK

Four children and two adults injured in knife attack in French Alps

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

The Guardian - UK

Future unknown but Syrians in Turkey ‘relieved’ after Erdogan win

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

Al Jazeera

Weekend vigil against war in Sudan to be held in Belfast

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

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Daily Mirror

Refugees heard 'screaming for their lives' after being locked inside 'coffin' wardrobes

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

The Guardian - UK

Cram them into a shoebox: that’s Britain’s new anti-migrant strategy – and it won’t work

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

The National (Scotland)

National journalist scoops two nominations in prestigious media awards

A JOURNALIST for the Sunday National has scooped two nominations for best feature in prestigious media awards ...

The Conversation

Refugee camps are at higher risk of extreme weather – new research

Around the world, climate change, violence and poverty are forcing people from their homes. The UN’s refugee agency estimated that by mid-2022, there were 103 million people displaced from their homes, compared to 90 million at the end of 2021.

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The Texas Tribune

Almost two years since Kabul fell, a frayed refugee system creates obstacles for Afghans in Texas

The refugee system in Texas and nationally is still recovering from major cuts under the Trump administration. The latest casualty is Texas’ largest resettlement agency, Refugee Services of Texas.

WEKU

New U.S. immigration rules send asylum requests soaring in Mexico

One of the new U.S. rules says you can't request asylum unless you've already been denied in another country. Mexico is getting more applications than ever, and crowded shelters have turn people away.

The Independent UK

Takeaways of AP investigation into a missing boat of 180 Rohingya refugees

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia

The Independent UK

A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia

Al Jazeera

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s ‘hot zone for climate threats’

Extreme weather is bearing down on vulnerable Rohingya communities on southeastern Bangladesh’s coast.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak announces two more barges will be used to house 1,000 asylum seekers

The Prime Minister, visiting a Border Force facility in Dover, said that a controversial plan to house asylum seekers in a barge would be operational within a fortnight, and added that two more vessels had been secured - but refused to say where

The National (Scotland)

Afghan refugee waits 82 weeks in Home Office bridging hotel, figures reveal

An Afghan refugee has spent 82 weeks in a ‘bridging hotel’ as they await permanent housing in Scotland, figures have revealed.

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