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Eyad Al Ryabi is still missing after jumping in the River Thames in Cookham to help his friend on Tuesday evening Emergency services are into the second day of a desperate search for a father-of-five who is feared to have drowned after jumping into the Thames to save his friend, who is now fighting for … Read more
Why was he not deported? Reading terror suspect is 25-year-old ‘Libyan refugee’ who had ‘previously been to prison in UK’ Terror suspect accused of stabbing three people ‘had previously been jailed’ The 25-year-old is thought to be Libyan refugee named Khairi Saadallah Reports indicate he had been previously jailed for a minor non-terror offence By … Read more
‘I had to witness certain things just so I could fit in’: Rita Ora shares ‘carefree’ childhood clip as she details her ‘hard’ experience as a Kosovan refugee By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 15:38 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 16:08 BST, 9 June 2020 Rita Ora has opened up about her experience as … Read more
The Syrian refugee hospital cleaner who tearfully shamed Boris Johnson into a U-turn over banning foreign workers from the NHS’ bereavement scheme today urged the Prime Minister to scrap the ‘inhumane’ charge forcing them to pay to use the health service. Hassan Akkad said he felt ‘stabbed in the back’ because of the treatment of … Read more
Group of 47 unaccompanied child migrants evacuated from refugee camps in Greece arrive in Germany The 47 minors, among them four girls, come from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea They landed in Hanover on a flight from Athens today and now face quarantine They were previously housed in refugee camps in Lesbos, Samos and Chios German … Read more
A Bafta-winning Syrian photographer and filmmaker who has temporarily changed careers to serve on the coronavirus frontline as a hospital cleaner says he was desperate to help after ‘England welcomed me with open arms’. Hassan Akkad, who fled to the UK after he was imprisoned and tortured in Syria, is working at St Bartholomew’s Hospital … Read more
Libyan refugee, 26, faces jail after tricking Harrods staff to steal two luxury Royal Oak watches worth a total of £190,000 Nizar Kejman went into the Harrods store with the intention of stealing jewellery The 26-year-old made off with two Audemars Piguet Royal Oak timepieces Both Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watches retail at an eye-watering £94,000 A Libyan … Read more
A Kurdish asylum seeker has pleaded guilty to bomb-making and inciting two Iraqi jihadists to commit a planned terror attack in north Germany. Fatah Mohammed Abdullah, 34, bought chemicals, over 8,000 matches, an igniter fuse, and a remote-control detonator on eBay and Amazon from April 2018. Police who suspected he was planning to build explosives … Read more
Tens of thousands of refugees from Syria and other countries were massing on the Turkish borders with Greece and Bulgaria last night, hurling stones at guards and trying to cut through razor wire. An estimated 30,000 migrants gathered at checkpoints after Turkey’s president claimed to have ‘opened the doors’ to allow as many as 4 … Read more
A school girl ‘told a Somali refugee, 12, who drowned in a river to ”get in the water or I’ll kill you” but says it was said as a joke’, an inquest has heard. Shukri Yahye-Abdi, 12, was pulled lifeless from the River Irwell near Bury on June 27 last year after her mother reported … Read more