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by Our Foreign Desk
A FIFTH man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of the 71 men, women and children suffocated to death in the back of a lorry in Austria, Hungarian police revealed yesterday.
The news came as the refugee crisis reached new heights, with the British, French and German interior ministers calling for an emergency EU summit to thrash out common policies.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
