Refugees

Nov 17th 2019 MOHAMMED RAHIMEH left Damascus in December 2015, rather than be conscripted into the Syrian army. His journey to London took him through Lebanon and Greece and included 11 months in the notorious Jungle camp in Calais. Despite leaving Syria wit…

Michael Bernstein weighed 155 pounds on a full belly, but at 36 he was a storied prosecutor at the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) who spent long afternoons in the records room, a lone figure hunched under the fuzzy glow of fluo…

Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley says in her new book that she rebuffed efforts by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to recruit her into their efforts to "save the country" by thwarting elemen…

An anonymous US government official has claimed in a new book that administration officials considered resigning en masse to raise alarm about President Donald Trump's behavior. The official described it as a "midnight self-massacre" in thei…

Senior officials working for President Donald Trump's administration considered resigning en masse in a "midnight self-massacre" in protest against his behavior, an anonymous government official has said in a new book, according to The Washington Post. The c…

(SEOUL, South Korea) — In an extremely unusual case, South Korea deported two North Korean fishermen on Thursday after finding they had killed 16 other crew members on their boat and then fled to South Korean waters, Seoul officials said. The two North Korea…

On October 4, Italian newspaper L'Avvenire revealed that the Italian government was working closely with Abd al-Rahman "Bija" Milad, the head of Libya's infamous Zawiyah coastguard, to stem the flow of refugees from the porous Libyan coast. Bija is a charact…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees has resigned, effective immediately, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had announced earlier on Wednesd…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks outside No. 10 Downing Street, in central London, on Nov. 6, 2019. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has formally kicked off an election campaign that he hopes will finally resolve …

The Tripura royalty has asked the State government to consider settling the displaced Bru people in the State instead of sending them back to uncertainty in Mizoram. Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma, the royal scion and former president of the Tripura unit o…