This stunning Afghan refugee - who fled to Europe when her father was killed for trying to stop her marriage to a much older man - is vying to become the next Miss Belgium. Mahdia Karimy, 19, is hoping to become Miss Belgium 2021 after arriving in the country in…
A hijab-wearing Somali refugee has won the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA pageant. Zehra Abukar, 23, who lived in Turkey for seven years before moving to the US in 2014, represented her state of Maine in the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA competition. The pageant is the brainchild of clothing…
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…
