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                    [Title] => Denmark's new plan to deter migrants: Seize their valuables
                    [Summary] => 

Hoping to diminish Denmark's appeal to migrants, the country's government plans to force asylum-seekers to hand over any valuables worth more than $1,500 to help cover their housing and food costs while their cases are being processed.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-16 14:04:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371405 [AuthorName] => Jan M. Olsen [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1539472 [Title] => Questions and answers about free movement in Europe [Summary] =>

Six countries in Europe's document-free travel area now have wide-ranging border checks in place following Denmark's decision on yesterday to tighten controls on its southern border with Germany.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-04 14:32:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471373 [AuthorName] => Lorne Cook [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1535647 [Title] => IOM: Over 1 million refugees, migrants enter Europe in 2015 [Summary] =>

More than 1 million people driven out of their countries by war, poverty and persecution entered Europe in this record-breaking year, migration experts said yesterday, a symbolic milestone capping a mass movement of people that has challenged the concept of European unity.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-22 15:43:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371370 [AuthorName] => Jamey Keaten [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1497682 [Title] => Germany, Sweden press demand for open-ended refugee quotas [Summary] =>

Germany and Sweden called Tuesday for fellow European Union countries to accept a system of quotas to ensure a fair distribution of refugees across all 28 member states, with no upper limit on the overall number the bloc will receive.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-08 08:31:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325611 [AuthorName] => Frank Jordans [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1492024 [Title] => Wave of EU-bound migrants crosses into Serbia [Summary] =>

In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot yesterday from Macedonia into Serbia on their way to Western Europe.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-24 14:00:14 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285732 [AuthorName] => Dusan Stojanovic [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1421387 [Title] => Europe urged to do more on refugee issue [Summary] =>

World leaders at the 51st Munich Security Conference are calling on Europe to do more to tackle the refugee issue as a result of increasing conflicts in the world.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-07 21:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1085751 [Title] => Campbell Soup negotiating to sell European business [Summary] =>

Campbell Soup says it's in final negotiations to sell its European business to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum, the latest move by CEO Denise Morrison to reshape the company.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-13 08:27:01 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 794091 [Title] => OFWs remit P2.17 billion in contributions to SSS [Summary] =>

Overseas Filipino workers remitted P2.17 billion in contributions to the Social Security System (SSS) last year, the state-owned pension fund for private employees has reported.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 727469 [Title] => Denmark to get 1st female PM after left wins vote [Summary] =>

Denmark has elected its first female prime minister, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-16 08:16:37 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 653719 [Title] => UN says Asian tech exports far outpace US [Summary] =>

Asia is now exporting two-thirds of the world's mobile phones, personal computers, digital televisions and other high-tech goods for information and communications, in a significant shift in world trade accentuated by the global financial crisis, the UN reported Wednesday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-03 09:55:32 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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