A teenage refugee who survived threats by the Taliban and then walked to Europe from Afghanistan aged 12 has died in a car accident after getting into a vehicle with a suspected drink-driver in Germany. The girl, named only by her first name Nilofar because of local privacy laws, was…
These powerful images show a Palestinian couple celebrating their engagement at the Lebanese refugee camp where the bride-to-be grew up. Newly-engaged Samih Mazien Mahmoud, 23, and Rayan Sokkar, 24, decided to pose for their engagement snaps at the Shatila refugee camp, also known as the Chatila refugee camp, in the…
A Belgian man has gifted his 87-year-old dad with the letters the elder man exchanged with his parents while staying as a refugee in England during World War II. Luc Van Roey from the Belgian municipality of Kapellen presented his elderly dad with a book of all the letters he…
This is the six-week-old grey heron that was found by a passerby shot and left to die with its wing injured and a bullet still in its body. The incident took place in Molln, a municipality in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems in the Austrian state of Upper…
Malta has rejected claims it left refugees to die from dehydration despite knowing they were trying to cross from Libya over to Europe. The NGO Alarm Phone announced details of the tragedy in which five people were found dead in a boat and, according to the survivors, another seven are…
