Refugees

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By Ruma PaulDHAKA (Reuters) - The Bangladesh navy has rescued around 280 Rohingya Muslims from the Bay of Bengal, towing their stranded boat to an island where they will be quarantined as a precaution against the coronavirus, coast guard and naval officials said on Friday.The rickety wooden boat was spotted…

More boats carrying Rohingya refugees have arrived in waters off Bangladesh. Some of the refugees have been transferred to a small island, Bhasan Char, described by rights activists as a "dangerously flood-prone island without adequate healthcare". Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom reports. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News Read More

Scrambling to tackle COVID-19 in camps across the Middle East, the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said it only has enough cash to operate until the end of May because of American funding cuts. In 2018 President Donald Trump's administration halted annual payments of $360m to the United Nations Relief…

Rights groups and aid agencies have raised concerns after dozens of stranded Rohingya refugees, who landed at Bangladesh's southern coast at the weekend, were sent to an inhabitable island in the Bay of Bengal. Authorities said the 29 Rohingya were relocated to the controversial Bhasan Char island late on Saturday to prevent…

Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea for weeks have been relocated to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh officials said Sunday.Bangladesh last year constructed facilities for 100,000 people on Bhashan Char, a muddy silt islet in the cyclone-prone coastal belt, saying they needed to take…

Bella Eva Photography Asylum seekers and refugees protest their detention in Brisbane's Kangaroo Point Central hotel on April 24, 2020. BuzzFeed News has reporters across five continents bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our…

Two fishing trawlers are crisscrossing the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, trying to find a country that will take in hundreds of Rohingya families fleeing Bangladesh’s refugee camps, who escaped ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. It’s unclear where they’ll end up: Malaysia has already turned away other boats of…

A boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees was turned away from Malaysia, with the government citing fears over coronavirus.It comes as the United Nations issued a plea for the international community to take urgent action, after dozens died on the perilous journey.It is believed that hundreds more people are still…

By Mica Rosenberg and Ted HessonNEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has taken drastic steps to curb the entry of foreigners into the United States since his administration declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus outbreak.Here are some of the most significant additional immigration changes the U.S.…