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Migrants are leaving in droves - and we're screwedIt turns out the government has not been counting migrants properly.But it's worse than that. It hasn't actually been counting at all - it's been guessing.And, just like any ignorant twit down the pub who reckons we're overrun on the basis of no evidence at all, the …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Credit: EPA/JENS KOEHLERHarsher measures should be taken against asylum seekers if they take a holiday in their country of origin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview, in which she also said she had no regrets over her open-door refugee policy."Taking holidays in the country in which you are being …
Oshi Agabi envisages airports that will need no visible security system allowing people to just walk on to planesNigerian Oshi Agabi has unveiled a computer based not on silicon but on mice neurons at the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania.The system has been trained to recognise the smell of explosives and could be used to replace …
The way Bana Umar tells it, VOA and other broadcasters helped convince him to leave Boko Haram.Until the night of August 18, Umar was a fighter for the Islamist radical group, living at a camp in the vast Sambisa Forest, one of the group's long-time strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.The experience was certainly exciting. Umar says …
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