By Alastair Jamieson and Richard O’Kelly 24 October 2015 CALAIS, France (NBC News) – Renowned street artist Banksy is pricking the world’s conscience by taking the remnants of a sell-out exhibition to a vast, squalid camp for refugees and migrants in northern France. His Disneyland spoof dubbed “Dismaland” — and associated merchandise — are not […]
20 October 2015 (AP) – Thousands of people trying to reach the heart of Europe surged across Serbia’s border into Croatia on Monday after authorities eased restrictions that had left them stranded for days in ankle-deep mud and rain. The miserable wave of humanity left behind a field scattered with soaked blankets, mud-caked clothing and […]
By Denis Balibouse and Alister Doyle; Editing by Frances Kerry17 October 2015 (Reuters) – One of Europe’s biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch, coils 23 km (14 miles) through the Swiss Alps – and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change. The glacier, […]
By Marton Dunai and Krisztina Than16 October 2015 ZAKANY, Hungarian-Croatian border (Reuters) – Hungary will seal off its border with Croatia from midnight (2200 GMT) on Friday to stem the flow of thousands of migrants arriving daily, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced after a meeting of the national security cabinet. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing […]
By Aimee Picchi15 October 2015 (CBS News) – The likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould — the robber barons of the late 19th century — might feel right at home in today’s economy. The coffers of the uber-rich have exploded since the Great Recession, reaching a level “possibly not seen for almost a century,” […]
By Tim Gaynor9 October 2015 GENEVA, 9 October 2015 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today appealed to the European Union to provide “massive support” to Greece to meet the needs of up to 6,000 refugees arriving each day as winter looms across Europe. He stressed that Greek authorities alone were not […]
5 October 2015 (BBC News) – The number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year will be as high as 1.5 million – almost double the previous estimate, German media report. The German government has not confirmed the new estimate, which comes from an internal official report cited by popular daily Bild. The report […]
By Nick Robins-Early22 September 2015 (The Huffington Post) – The doomsday seed vault on Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago houses the world’s back up supply of seeds to ensure crop diversity. It contains deposits of nearly 865,000 varieties of seeds buried within a mountain in case of catastrophe. Due to Syria’s civil war, it will now […]
GENEVA, 18 September 2015 (UNHCR) – Following yesterday’s mayhem on the Serbian border with Croatia, which has closed some entry points, the UN refugee agency today issued a stark warning that time was running out for Europe to resolve the current refugee crisis. UNHCR blamed the continuing absence of a coherent and united response to […]
ATHENS, Greece, 20 September 2015 (AP) – The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local: 2:30 p.m. Police say an arson attack on a future asylum shelter for up to 400 people in Wertheim in southern Germany destroyed the building so badly […]
