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Opinion: Trump, Iran and Mixing Issues

Opinion: Trump, Iran and Mixing Issues

We have wasted many years by not differentiating between our interests and those of Iran and by not differentiating between true causes and fake ones. Iran’s regime has succeeded in exploiting our issues; the Palestinian issue and Arab and Muslim issues, and it...
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An Afghan migrant repairs his bicycle at a workshop near Calais, France, on August 1, 2015. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)


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Cyprus Defence Ministry released images of the boat, overloaded with people, on September 24, 2014. (AFP Photo/HO/ Cyprus Defence Ministry)


Effort underway to save boat stranded off Cyprus

Effort underway to save boat stranded off Cyprus

Nicosia, AP—A cruise ship was trying on Thursday to rescue hundreds of people stranded aboard a small boat off Cyprus, and officials said they are apparently refugees who fled Syria. Salamis Cruise Lines Managing Director Kikis Vasiliou told The Associated Press that...
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Nigerien migrants ride on a Toyota pickup truck as they return from Libya, in Agadez on March 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Joe Penney)


Niger destroys people-traffickers’ safe houses

Niger destroys people-traffickers’ safe houses

Niamey, Niger—Authorities in Niger have destroyed safe houses owned by human trafficking networks for sheltering illegal migrants and forcibly turned back anyone without a valid identity document in towns near its northern border, a government minister said on...
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Rescued migrants arrive on board a coastguard vessel at the harbor of Lampedusa October 3, 2013. (REUTERS/Nino Randazzo/ASP press office/Handout via Reuters)


Opinion: The Great Escape

Opinion: The Great Escape

We are witnessing a daily tragedy. This is the news of the sinking of boats carrying hundreds of migrants, whether in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy, or in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian and Australian coastlines. The latter incident saw a number of...