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Istanbul, Turkey – Greece is reportedly employing third-country nationals, including Syrians, Pakistanis and Afghans, in its illegal pushback operations across the land border with Turkey.

According to reports from rights groups, as well as interviews conducted by Al Jazeera with

At 2pm on November 16, 2021, the Geo Barents, a search and rescue ship, responded to a distress call about a severely overcrowded wooden vessel almost 30 nautical miles (55.5km) from the coast of Libya.

Every year, thousands of people

Faro, Portugal – Marie Braud until recently considered herself an anomaly. Despite travelling extensively for her work, the recruiter had managed to avoid testing positive for COVID-19 throughout the coronavirus pandemic. But that all changed in June.

The 37-year-old began

London, United Kingdom – Eniola* spent 13 years living in the UK, working within and becoming a part of the Nigerian community there. The UK government took four days to deport her before any chance to appeal.

She had left

Gaza City – Despite Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, it still fully controls entry and exit from Gaza by land, air and sea, as well as Gaza’s civil population registry, telecommunications networks, and many other aspects of

Most people will agree the key to easing COVID-19 restrictions has been the use of vaccinations. Although they are imperfect in that they do not prevent a person from getting COVID-19 itself, they do offer a good level of protection

Later today, eight asylum seekers will get on a chartered flight heading to Rwanda from the United Kingdom, as part of a controversial £120m deal between both countries.

According to the UK Home Office, the deal, signed in April, is

Hostomel, Ukraine – Amid a brutal Russian occupation of their town, Alla Voloshynovych, and her husband, Vadym Smirnov, believe a misplaced telephone pole saved their family’s lives.

In mid-2021, the telephone pole had been clumsily installed on the outskirts of

I run towards the patch of land – recently burned to ashes – while playing hide-and-seek. As a nine-year-old, this is my secret hiding place. It is completely brown, black, and barren. A few days ago, it was a riot