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Libyan Refugee 'Crisis' Tops 140,000
By not in system - AOL NewsGENEVA -- Violence and chaos in Libya have triggered an exodus of more than 140,000 refugees to Tunisia and Egypt, a U.N. official said Tuesday, as aid workers warned the situation at the Tunisian border has reached crisis point. Officials say the situation has been made even more volatile by humanitarian aid workers being blocked from reaching western Libya, patients reportedly being executed in hospitals, or shot by gunmen hiding in ambulances At the Libya-Tunisian border -- where authorities say up to 75,000 people have gathered in just nine days -- "the situation is reaching crisis ...
Immigrants in Greece Occupy University, Start Hunger Strike
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- More than 200 immigrants occupying a state university in Athens began a hunger strike today, ratcheting up pressure on the government to legalize them as Greece grapples with a massive tide of refugees. The immigrants, all young men and mainly from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, arrived in Athens from the island of Crete late Monday, storming the capital's law school and settling in with blankets and sleeping bags. Fifty others launched similar protests in Thessaloniki in northern Greece, marking what supporters called the biggest hunger strike yet by immigrants in ...
At Least 27 Asylum Seekers Die as Boat Sinks Off Australia
By not in system - AOL NewsSYDNEY (Dec. 15) -- A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning waters and killing at least 27 people. Christmas Island residents on a cliff above watched in horror as the boat - carrying about 70 people - broke apart with a crack, dumping screaming men, women and children into monstrous waves that pounded them against the rocks. "It was just horrible. People getting crushed. Bodies, dead children, the whole thing was pretty awful," island resident Simon Prince told The ...
Cholera Confirmed in Haiti's Capital
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 9) -- A cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-year-old boy from a quake refugee tent camp who hadn't been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested. The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive ...
Cholera, Looming Storm Add to Misery in Haiti
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- First Haiti's infrastructure was ripped apart by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed 300,000 people and left more than a million homeless. Then a cholera outbreak swept through those refugees' camps, killing more than 300 people and sickening thousands more. And now it looks like a hurricane is coming. Haiti can't seem to get a break. Tropical Storm Tomas has already killed at least 14 people in St. Lucia, the BBC reported, quoting the local tourism minister as saying the worst-hit southern town resembles a "war zone." The storm is gaining strength over the Caribbean, ...
13 Drown in Failed US Rescue of African Refugees
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Sept. 28) -- At least 13 African refugees are feared dead after scrambling for food and water while the U.S. Navy tried to save their overcrowded, broken-down boat in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen. The small skiff, packed with 75 Ethiopians and 10 Somalis, was spotted drifting in the gulf by a South Korean warship, which asked the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill to help the stranded migrants, according to a statement from the Combined Maritime Forces, which patrols for pirates on the dangerous waters off the east coast of Africa. As Navy crews in an inflatable craft tried to ...
At Mideast Talks, Refugee Issue Looms Unaddressed
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 13) -- As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads to Egypt for the next round of Middle East peace talks, there is one issue both sides are likely to steer well clear of: refugees. The most pressing issue awaiting Clinton in Sharm el-Sheik is the end of a construction moratorium in West Bank Jewish settlements on Sept. 26. Her first task will be to convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make good on hints he might extend it at least in part. But the most vexing of the core issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians, analysts say, is the demand by ...
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Begin as Both Sides Lay Out Hopes, Expectations
By Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily"Joined by the generations, those who have gone before, and those who will follow," President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened formal peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians today. The imagery has certainly been impressive. Yesterday it was President Obama, flanked by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on one side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the other striding purposefully, if not altogether confidently, into a working dinner. This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the lead, seated between the pair. An American flag with ...
Canada Boards Ship With Suspected 'Terrorists' Aboard
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- The Canadian Navy and Coast Guard last night boarded a cargo ship off the coast of British Columbia carrying hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka. Authorities say they are now vetting the 490 migrants, some of whom are believed to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers, which fought a bloody 25-year-long war to establish an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka. That movement is outlawed as a terrorist group in Canada, as it is in the United States and the European Union. "A vessel carrying 490 individuals claiming ...
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