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‘Day of rage’ erupts across West Bank after Israeli forces attack refugee camp – The Guardian
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Israeli Raid and Airstrike on West Bank Refugee Camp Kills 13 Palestinians, Including Children – Democracy Now!
- Israeli Raid and Airstrike on West Bank Refugee Camp Kills 13 Palestinians, Including Children Democracy Now!
- ‘Day of rage’ erupts across West Bank after Israeli forces attack refugee camp The Guardian
- Violence Surges in West Bank, With 13 Palestinians and an Israeli Killed The New York Times
- Palestinian child killed in West Bank, bringing death toll in territory to 84 since Gaza conflict onset Anadolu Agency | English
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Israel’s Netanyahu calls for deportation of Eritrean refugee ‘rioters’ – Al Jazeera English
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Japan’s new immigration law raises concerns over safety of refugee applicants – The Japan Times
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- Japan OKs refugee law change allowing forced repatriation of asylum seekers after repeated rejection ABC News
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Explainer: Why Venezuela’s refugee exodus to the U.S. has been accelerating
Oct 18 (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican authorities recently announced a new policy that would expel Venezuelans entering the U.S. land border back to Mexico, but allow up to 24,000 people from the country to apply for humanitarian entry into the United States by air.
As a result of the new policy, thousands of Venezuelans believed to be en route to the United States are now stranded between the two countries during a year when Venezuelans are arriving at the U.S. border in record numbers.
WHY WERE THE NEW MEASURES PUT IN PLACE?
The measures respond in part to political pressure on U.S. President Joe Biden to curb record numbers of illegal crossings at the Mexico-U.S. border. Venezuelans have been one of the largest groups of migrants involved in such crossings, in part because Washington granted temporary protection status last year to those who were on U.S. soil. Deporting Venezuelans is also more complicated than with migrants of other nationalities because the two countries broke diplomatic relations in 2019, making it difficult to organize deportation flights.
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More than 150,000 Venezuelans were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border between October 2021 and August 2022, compared with nearly 48,000 in fiscal-year 2021, according to U.S. government data. In September, over 33,000 Venezuelan individuals were encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border – more than the number of unique crossers from Mexico and more than immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras combined, according to U.S. government data.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO VENEZUELANS IN TRANSIT TO THE UNITED STATES?
Those in transit may attempt to reach the United States despite the near certainty that they will be sent back to Mexico. Mexican authorities so far have given many of these individuals a deadline of no more than two weeks to leave the country. It is unclear where Venezuelans waiting in Mexico will stay, as Mexico’s migrant shelter system is often overwhelmed.
Some may return to Venezuela, while others could settle down in different Latin American countries, where Venezuelan migrants have in some cases faced discrimination, limited job opportunities and restrictions on their migratory status.
Half of the Venezuelan refugee and migrant population across Latin America and the Caribbean cannot afford three meals a day and lacks access to housing, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), forcing many to resort to sex work or begging.
WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE NEW U.S. PROGRAM?
Venezuelans who meet the U.S. requirements may apply for the recently announced U.S. program. Among the requirements is having a U.S.-based supporter and holding a valid passport. The cost of a passport in Venezuela is $200, nearly ten times the country’s minimum wage.
Maria Victoria, 8, cries because she wants to see her father who is in the United States, during a protest on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, after Venezuelan migrants were expelled from the U.S. with their families and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Only 1% of 1,591 migrants who left Venezuela between June and August held a passport, according to the Observatory of Social Investigations, a rights group.
WHAT TRIGGERED THE VENEZUELAN EXODUS?
Under late President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, the country with the world’s largest oil reserves weathered corruption and inflation.
Then in 2014, Venezuela’s economy buckled as global oil prices tumbled, and living conditions further deteriorated as stringent price controls created widespread shortages. Products began to disappear from store shelves while black markets thrived with goods ranging from cooking oil to corn flour.
In 2018, inflation in Venezuela exceeded 1 million percent. Medicines for conditions from headaches to cancer were unavailable.
WHY ARE VENEZUELANS STILL MIGRATING?
Despite some improvements following a 2019 opening of the economy that included an informal dollarization, most Venezuelans still struggle to afford basic goods and services. Efforts by the government of Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro, to ease economic restrictions have alleviated shortages and fueled consumption in high-income brackets, but left the vast majority of the population making wages that fall well short of the cost of living.
The monthly minimum wage in the OPEC-member nation is around $15 while the price of a basket of goods covering the monthly needs of a family of five was around $370 at the end of September, according to the nongovernmental Venezuelan Finance Observatory.
Even in the commerce and services sector of relatively wealthy Caracas, employees make an average of only around $130 a month. Meanwhile in the public sector, which employs some 2.2 million, the average monthly salary is about $20 to $30.
Economists say at least 30% of the population has not benefited from the new economic measures.
Remittances to Venezuelans from relatives in the United States or elsewhere help but are insufficient for most. Just one-fourth of Venezuelan families receive remittances, averaging only $70 a month, according to Caracas-based consultancy Anova.
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Reporting by Vivian Sequera in Caracas and Sarah Kinosian in Mexico City
Editing by Matthew Lewis
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John Cena meets Ukraine war refugee with Down syndrome after teen’s mom used his idol as motivation to escape
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A Ukrainian teenager met with his idol, famed WWE star and actor John Cena, this weekend after his mother used a fantasy of meeting him as a motivational tool to flee the war-torn town of Mariupol.
Liana Rohozhyna, the mother of Misha Rohozhyn, a 19-year-old who has Down Syndrome and is unable to speak, repeatedly told her son they were constantly on the move in Ukraine to go and find John Cena — when in reality the family was fleeing a devastating war front and a Russian siege on their hometown, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“Misha is an example for moving toward your dream by believing in it,” she said, per the report.
MIAMI GARDENS, FL – APRIL 1: John Cena looks on before his match against Dwayne ”The Rock” Johnson during WrestleMania XXVIII at Sun Life Stadium on April 1, 2012 in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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The family’s journey was not easy as they reportedly traversed minefields, came into contact with Russian soldiers, faced artillery strikes, and crossed several national borders.
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But, the idea of meeting the iconic wrestler motivated the teen to keep pushing.
Misha, a non-verbal teen with Down’s Syndrome, didn’t understand why his family had to flee Mariupol this year.
To placate him, his mother told him they were travelling to meet John Cena.
Cena heard… and went to Amsterdam to oblige.
Just brilliant. pic.twitter.com/vix2OhkXZs
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According to the report, Misha and his mother arrived safely in the Netherlands last month but they still never fulfilled the motivational fantasy of meeting Cena.
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On Saturday, that fantasy became a reality when the hulking superstar paid Misha and his mother a visit to their new home in Huizen.
“I didn’t want a son to think of his mom in a different light just because she did whatever she had to do to get him to safety,” Cena said, per the WSJ.
In this handout photo taken from video released on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 by Donetsk People’s Republic Interior Ministry Press Service, Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine. (Donetsk People’s Republic Interior Ministry Press Service via AP)
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Cena gave Misha a hat and t-shirt featuring his WWE mantras and the two ate a Ukrainian honey cake.
“If I have cake, will Misha have cake with me?” Cena asked the family through a translator, the WSJ reported. Misha excitedly accepted.
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Seeing his idol was the first time Misha smiled since the war began, Rohozhyna told the outlet.
She also said Misha’s room in their Ukrainian home was covered in Cena’s wrestling posters.
LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 21: John Cena, dressed as Peacemaker from “The Suicide Squad”, is seen at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on July 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
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That home, however, became the target of Russian mortar fire on February 24, the first day of the Ukrainian-Russian war, and the two were forced to flee. They arrived at a shelter but after it lost electricity, they were again forced to leave, the WSJ reported.
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According to the report, Misha had a panic attack so his mother decided against hiding out in an underground facility. The two stayed at a day center, which could have been subjected to Russian artillery strikes, before they fled to the Netherlands.
A member of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry walks near a destroyed residential building in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 11.
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Before concluding the visit on Saturday, Cena let Misha wear a WWE championship belt and encouraged the family.
“I tried to let [Misha] know today that in every journey we’ve got good days and bad days,” Cena said Saturday afternoon, per the report. “I hope he gets more good ones.”
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“I wanted to tell him today personally that his story really touched me,” the wrestler added.
Cena visited the family from London, where he was filming.
Mariupol remains under Russia’s control after they successfully seized it last month.
UK man leaves girlfriend for Ukrainian refugee he just met
All’s fair in Lviv and war.
A British man in a relationship for 10 years ran off with a Ukrainian refugee who had been living in their home for just 10 days.
Tony Garnett, a 29-year-old security guard and father of two said it was love at first sight after he met Sofiia Karkadym, 22.
“As soon as I saw him I fancied him,” Karkadym told The Sun. “It’s been very quick but this is our love story. I know people will think badly of me but it happens. I could see how unhappy Tony was.”
Karkadym, a native of the eastern Ukrainian city of Lviv, came to live with Garnett and his long term girlfriend Lorna in early May after Garnett met Karkadym on Facebook.
“We’re sorry for the pain we’ve caused but I’ve discovered a connection with Sofiia like I’ve never had before,” Garnett told the tabloid. “We’re planning the rest of our life together.”
The relationship began falling apart from the moment Karkadym came to stay and Lorna began to get “very jealous,” Garnett said.
“The atmosphere was getting really bad and Sofiia told me she didn’t know whether she could continue to live with us under these circumstances.”
Eventually Lorna told her wayward man that he would have to make a choice — and he did.
“We both packed our bags and moved into my mum and dad’s home together,” Garnett said, adding the the new happy couple had already begun apartment hunting.
A person close to Lorna said she was “devastated” by the developments, The Sun reported.
Poland Struggles Under Weight of Refugee Crisis – NBC10 Philadelphia
Thousands of Poles have shown kindness toward Ukrainians fleeing a war next door, including many who have welcomed Ukrainian families into their homes. But despite the innumerable individual examples of generosity toward fleeing Ukrainians, concerns are growing that Poland cannot withstand this level of migration.
Poland, a country of 38 million people, has already taken in nearly 2.6 million Ukrainian refugees, or 60 percent of the total exodus since the Russian invasion began at the end of February, according to the United Nations.
Tomasz Szeleszczuk, one district official in charge of nine villages in Poland, said he was proud that his villagers had welcomed Ukrainians. But if many more come, the community will need more help from the Polish authorities, he said. Szeleszczuk said that he was worried about the effects the refugee crisis could have on health care and on the economy countrywide.
“It’s a challenge for the whole system,” he said.
The stream of Ukrainian refugees into Poland has slowed in recent weeks — 28,908 entered on April 9, compared with nearly 141,000 at the peak on March 6, according to the U.N. But many more could come if hostilities in Ukraine escalate.
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Nancy Dent works for the International Rescue Committee, one of the humanitarian organizations on the ground in Poland, where most Ukrainians who fled the violence have gone. She spoke with NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo about how she’s been helping Ukrainian refugees in Lublin and how people far away from the crisis can provide support.
New Theory Suggests That Dark Matter Could Be an Extra-Dimensional Cosmic Refugee
Dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for the majority of the mass in the Universe, may be made up of massive particles called gravitons that first popped into existence in the first moment after the Big Bang.
And these hypothetical particles might be cosmic refugees from extra dimensions, a new theory suggests.
The researchers’ calculations hint that these particles could have been created in just the right quantities to explain dark matter, which can only be “seen” through its gravitational pull on ordinary matter.
“Massive gravitons are produced by collisions of ordinary particles in the early Universe.
This process was believed to be too rare for the massive gravitons to be dark matter candidates,” study co-author Giacomo Cacciapaglia, a physicist at the University of Lyon in France, told Live Science.
But in a new study published in February in the journal Physical Review Letters, Cacciapaglia, along with Korea University physicists Haiying Cai and Seung J. Lee, found that enough of these gravitons would have been made in the early Universe to account for all of the dark matter we currently detect in the Universe.
The gravitons, if they exist, would have a mass of less than 1 megaelectronvolt (MeV), so no more than twice the mass of an electron, the study found.
This mass level is well below the scale at which the Higgs boson generates mass for ordinary matter – which is key for the model to produce enough of them to account for all the dark matter in the Universe. (For comparison, the lightest known particle, the neutrino, weighs less than 2 electronvolts, while a proton weighs roughly 940 MeV, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.)
The team found these hypothetical gravitons while hunting for evidence of extra dimensions, which some physicists suspect exist alongside the observed three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension, time.
In the team’s theory, when gravity propagates through extra dimensions, it materializes in our Universe as massive gravitons.
But these particles would interact only weakly with ordinary matter, and only via the force of gravity.
This description is eerily similar to what we know about dark matter, which does not interact with light yet has a gravitational influence felt everywhere in the Universe. This gravitational influence, for instance, is what prevents galaxies from flying apart.
“The main advantage of massive gravitons as dark matter particles is that they only interact gravitationally, hence they can escape attempts to detect their presence,” Cacciapaglia said.
In contrast, other proposed dark matter candidates – such as weakly interacting massive particles, axions, and neutrinos – might also be felt by their very subtle interactions with other forces and fields.
The fact that massive gravitons barely interact via gravity with the other particles and forces in the Universe offers another advantage.
“Due to their very weak interactions, they decay so slowly that they remain stable over the lifetime of the Universe,” Cacciapaglia said, “For the same reason, they are slowly produced during the expansion of the Universe and accumulate there until today.”
In the past, physicists thought gravitons were unlikely dark matter candidates because the processes that create them are extremely rare. As a result, gravitons would be created at much lower rates than other particles.
But the team found that in the picosecond (trillionth of a second) after the Big Bang, more of these gravitons would have been created than past theories suggested.
This enhancement was enough for massive gravitons to completely explain the amount of dark matter we detect in the Universe, the study found.
“The enhancement did come as a shock,” Cacciapaglia said. “We had to perform many checks to make sure that the result was correct, as it results in a paradigm shift in the way we consider massive gravitons as potential dark matter candidates.”
Because massive gravitons form below the energy scale of the Higgs boson, they are freed from uncertainties related to higher energy scales, which current particle physics doesn’t describe very well.
The team’s theory connects physics studied at particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider with the physics of gravity.
This means that powerful particle accelerators like the Future Circular Collider at CERN, which should begin operating in 2035, could hunt for evidence of these potential dark matter particles.
“Probably the best shot we have is at future high-precision particle colliders,” Cacciapaglia said. “This is something we are currently investigating.”
This article was originally published by Live Science. Read the original article here.