By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) denounced a move by Switzerland to cut aid as the Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Western states should enact policies to prevent asylum seekers embarking on dangerous routes, the U.N. refugee chief said on Thursday, as the number of…
COLOMBUS, OH – On Sunday, an incident occurred on Refugee Rd when a remark about shoes led to an armed robbery. The victim, upon commenting about a man’s shoes, was…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States are working on a plan to process migrants in southern Mexico, encompassing Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, Mexico’s incoming foreign minister…
By Ted Hesson and Dave Graham WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing a new U.S. refugee program for some non-Mexican asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, four…
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – The world needs to rediscover its ability to bring peace to various trouble spots in order to curb the growing flow of refugees, the…
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a border pact under which Canada and the United States send back asylum seekers crossing the land…
By Burcu Karakas, Ece Toksabay, Huseyin Hayatsever and Maya Gebeily ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan played up his plans to repatriate a million Syrian refugees as he rode a…
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than a million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan so far, including a quarter of a million refugees, a U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson…
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – More than a year after escaping her native Kyiv with a broken leg one winter night, Lidiya Bibko lives in a tidy two-bedroom Tokyo…
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -The number of U.S.-bound migrants who cross the dangerous jungle separating Panama and Colombia could rise to a record this year, according to a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 17-year-old Honduran unaccompanied migrant teen died after being found unconscious in a Florida shelter on May 10, according to a notification to U.S. lawmakers from the…
Ukrainian Refugee Flees To San Francisco, Gets Robbed And Harassed At Public School Jennie Taer on February 20, 2023 A Ukrainian refugee teen has found her new school in San…
Biden Admin’s New Refugee Sponsorship Program Partners With ‘Abolish ICE’ Organization Jennie Taer on January 19, 2023 The Biden administration’s new refugee sponsorship program partners with an organization that’s previously…
By Lizbeth Diaz and Jose Torres TAPACHULA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Thousands of migrants have flocked to government offices in southern Mexico seeking asylum since the United States said it would…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) but will remain a humanitarian activist, the United Nations…
Syrian Refugee Gets 17 Years For Plotting To Bomb Church To Avenge ISIS Micaela Burrow on November 9, 2022 The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday sentenced a Syrian refugee…
By Andrew Hofstetter NEW YORK (Reuters) – A giant refugee girl puppet, known as “Little Amal,” walked around New York City’s Times Square on Friday, raising awareness of the plight…
WASHINGTON – An Iraqi national, Aws Muwafaq Abduljabbar, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the…
FRANKFURT – The influx of Ukrainian refugees into the European Union could gradually ease labour shortages in the euro zone as some of those fleeing the war are likely to…
COPENHAGEN – Carlsberg said its beer sales in Poland fell by 3-4% in March and have continued to drop in April, underlining the troubles facing brewers in a market which…
By Zuzanna Szymanska BERLIN – Ukrainian refugees fleeing war have been hospitably received around Europe, but the longer they stay the more their presence may exacerbate housing price pressures in…
Biden Admin Reportedly Working To Increase Ukrainian Refugee Intake Sebastian Hughes on March 23, 2022 The Biden administration is planning to launch a program in late March to make it…
‘It’s Not A Joking Matter’: US Marine Vet In Ukraine Rips Harris For Laughing After Refugee Question Samantha Anderson on March 12, 2022 United States Marine veteran Chad Robichaux shared…
By Simon Lewis CHISINAU, Moldova -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday reassured Moldova’s leaders that the United States would rally international opposition to Russian aggression “whenever and wherever”…