Where Are the Syrian Refugees? - Factpod #17

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Map: The walls Europe is building to keep people out After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, for a while it seemed like border fences and barriers were a thing of the past in Europe. Many on the continent hoped for a new era of integration and receptivity. It didn't happen. Instead, various pressures have led Europe to adopt wall-building projects that would make Donald Trump proud. Right now, in Hungary, for example, the government is rushing to complete a 109-mile-long barbed wire border fence along its southern frontier with Serbia – a project made bitterly ironic by Hungary's 1989 decision to cut its border fence with Austria and help break the Iron Curtain. "We have only recently taken down walls in Europe," European Union spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said when news of the fence spread in June.

Diplomats From Iran, U.S., And Other Nations Discuss Crisis In Syria UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, center left, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center right, meet with foreign ministers for talks on Syria at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Friday. Brendan Smialowski/AP hide caption itoggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AP UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, center left, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center right, meet with foreign ministers for talks on Syria at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Friday. Brendan Smialowski/AP For the first time, Iran is joining international talks on Syria's future, sending a team to meet with diplomats in Vienna Friday.

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In 1 tweet, J.K. Rowling captured the media's hypocrisy in how it treats Syrian refugees. J.K. Rowling is heartsick over how the thousands of Middle Eastern refugees flooding into Europe are being treated. So when The Daily Express published an article about the major humanitarian crisis on the bottom of their front page, Rowling took them to task. China Announces End To One-Child Policy China announced Thursday it is officially ending its one-child policy. All couples will now be allowed to have two children. For the past 35 years, most families in China could have only one child.

Europe's Migrant Crisis Introduction Migrants and refugees streaming into Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the Mediterranean the world's most dangerous border crossing. Trying to follow what is going on in Syria and why? This comic will get you there in 5 minutes. That warning has become a global alert. Since the uprising against Assad in March 2011, over 240,000 people have been killed, 4 million Syrians have fled their country, and over 7 million have been displaced. The headlines are full of the heartbreaking stories of these refugees — including young children — who have died trying to reach safety in other countries.

The big myth about refugees A Syrian refugee child cries as she is squeezed by other refugees and migrants trying to move ahead at Greece's border with Macedonia September 7, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis Europe is now struggling with the most severe refugee crisis in decades, as millions of people flee violence in Syria and Iraq. Even as German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel outlined a proposal this week to place 160,000 refugees in nearly two dozen countries, he acknowledged that the plan was merely “a drop in the ocean.”