Refugees

Madrid, Spain - When, as a 13-year-old in 1939, Lina Arconada became one of half a million Spanish Civil War refugees fleeing the troops of the victorious General Franco, she had no idea it would be more than four decades before she could return from France to her home country.…

The restrictions are set to take effect next month. January 31, 2020, 11:42 PM5 min read President Donald Trump on Friday signed an order to impose travel restrictions on a new group of six countries, adding to the current travel ban, according to three senior administration officials. The U.S. will…

Once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights indeed their very existence as a people. As with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and UN Security Council resolution 242 of 1967, the greate…

Facebook has taken down the profile of Rambhakt Gopal, a person who allegedly opened fire at students in New Delhi. His profile featured a few live videos uploaded before the incident and posts asking his friends to take care of his family. Earlier this afternoon, the person began shooting at…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s conservative government on Thursday defended its decision to use a detention center thousands of kilometers from the mainland to quarantine locals evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Austr…

RIYADH/CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab powers appear to be prioritizing close ties with the United States that are vital to countering Iran over traditional unswerving support for the Palestinians in their reaction to President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan. …

When President Donald Trump unveiled his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Tuesday, a two-state initiative that was three years in the making, he hailed it as a “win-win opportunity” that will ensure prosperity and a brighter future for the region.But the optics of the event – with Israel’s leader present and his…

Competitive eaters like Joey Chestnut make a living devouring food on the Major League Eating circuit.Chestnut is legendary for his victories at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, and he recently won the shrimp cocktail eating title in Indianapolis for the seventh straight year.The competition is just one of…

By Ruma PaulDHAKA (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees reacted with surprise and joy on Wednesday to the news that Bangladesh would provide formal education to their children, two and a half years after they were forced to flee Myanmar.Human rights groups have long campaigned for the nearly half a million effectively…

Just shy of six years ago, the tiny island nation of Nauru was home to more than 300 women who had tried to come to Australia by boat to seek asylum.Now, only eight remain.“I’m waiting for the day Allah wants me to go,” Fawzia (a pseudonym), a 27-year-old Somali woman,…