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A half-submerged deflated dinghy used by Syrian refugees to cross the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos in March 2016 | Photo: Guillaume Pinon/NurPhoto/picture alliance
Portugal's government has decided it would be willing to pay towards the European Solidarity mechanism rather than accept 420 asylum seekers. Luis Montenegro is Portugal's Prime Minister | Photo: Rita Franca / SOPA / Zuma Press Wire / Associated Press
Photo used for illustration: Oxford Street in London, UK | Photo: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire
File photo used as illustration: A Kurdish asylum seeker who crossed the Channel to the UK in the summer has been convicted of rape of an 18-year-old woman, just weeks after arriving | Photo: Reuters
File photo: Civilians in Sudan suffer the deepest cuts from a war between military rivals  | Photo: LUIS TATO/AFP