Europe’s Christmas dilemma: risk empty chairs next year?
Brussels, BelgiumAP Please leave a chair empty at this year’s family Christmas dinner as a precaution, or face the possibility of having that chair empty forever. That’s the stark dilemma Belgium’s Prime Minister has set to urge smaller festive family gatherings, as Europeans battle with containing the surging COVID-19 pandemic over the holiday season. In […]
Stateless woman tells how she couldn’t visit dying dad
The Hague, The NetherlandsThomson Reuters Foundation When Ekaterina’s father was dying she could not visit him in Uzbekistan because she did not have a passport – so she tried to get herself deported. But as a stateless person living in the United States, she could not even do that. An empty chair is seen at […]