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Raydel Aparicio Bringa (left) and Doniel Machado Pujol are photographed while being apprehended by Poland's Border Guard in the town of Sokolka, on the Polish border with Belarus. The two men, from Cuba, are among thousands of migrants from impoverished o

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Belarus' Lukashenko is accused of creating Europe's latest migration crisis

4:27pm October 12, 2021

by Rob Schmitz

Poland has stopped some 16,000 migrants crossing its border from Belarus since August, and accuses Belarus' authoritarian regime of facilitating illegal migration into the European Union.

A man and his daughter walk across a desert.

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The Harrowing Journeys To Safety Of Asylum-Seekers During A Pandemic

7:28am February 13, 2021

Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants attempting a deadly voyage to Europe, only to be pushed back to where they fled.

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