In our new column, in which we make nice things happen for nice people, Khaled Wakkaa starts to turn his passion into a livelihoodIn a Lebanese hospital in 2015, Khaled Wakkaa watched as his wife Dalal grew weaker. She was emaciated and jaundiced. In t…
Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
Charity helping the refugees says they are happy with the result but urges Ottawa to expedite asylum of remaining ‘Guardian Angel’Canada granted asylum to four people who hid former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in their tiny Hong Kong apartments when …
Asylum seekers placed in ‘unsuitable’ Blackpool hotel despite council protests
Local authority accuses Home Office and Serco of trying to beat court hearing and frustrate justice system Blackpool council has accused the Home Office and Serco of deliberately acting to frustrate the justice system after placing asylum seekers in a …
Some Afghan refugees to be housed in UK hotels for months
MPs express concern over dozens of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being placed in hotelsSome of the 7,000 Afghan refugees who are currently being housed in hotels are likely still to be in emergency hotel accommodation by the end of the year, th…
Four migrants stuck on Poland-Belarus border die of hypothermia and exhaustion
Minsk accused of abandoning migrants at frontier in attempt to put pressure on EUFour people stranded on the border between Poland and Belarus have died in recent days, officials have said, amid continuing allegations that Minsk is abandoning migrants …
How the refugee crisis created two myths of Angela Merkel | Daniel Trilling
The right says the German chancellor undermined EU security; Liberals say it was a triumph. But her legacy is far more mixedWhen Angela Merkel steps down as chancellor after Germany’s elections later this month, the tributes will centre on her role as …
Biden administration seeks to lift US refugee cap to 125,000 beginning 1 October
The plan comes at a time when tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are on military bases awaiting resettlementThe Biden administration wants to nearly double the number of refugees admitted to the United States to 125,000 in the upcoming fiscal year st…
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Steve McCurry on Afghan Girl, a portrait of past and present
The US photographer’s image of Sharbat Gula captured the story of a country, its people and refugees across the world. Thirty six years on, another picture tells a similar tale – but also one of hopeOn 1 September, a young Afghan girl stood in line wit…
‘Something magical happens’: the cameras helping refugee children to heal
We talk to the man behind an extraordinary project in Turkey, where children, most of them refugees, have been given old analogue cameras and taught the art of photographySerbest Salih studied photography at college in Aleppo, before fleeing Syria with…
A friend in need: volunteers rush to help refugees feel at home in UK
Up to 50 people a day are signing up to offer help to Afghans who fled the TalibanThe UK’s largest refugee befriending scheme has closed applications in London following a meteoric rise in sign-ups amid the Afghanistan withdrawal.Until recently HostNat…