Refugees

Nearly eight months after US president Donald Trump issued an edict to restore integrity to the American immigration system, authorities are attempting to make it more difficult for asylum seekers to earn a living. Presently, refugees can apply for a work pe…

As well as the cast of familiar characters including the crew of the Rocinante, Bobbie, Drummer and Chrisjen, there are some new faces including Burn Gorman of Torchwood and Pacific Rim fame, plus Lyndie Greenwood who you may remember from Sleepy Hollow. Ther…

Next month brings the return of The Expanse, the show that SyFy axed last spring, but was saved by Amazon for a new season. In season 4, the crew of the Rocinante is being sent through the Ring Gate to explore a new world. A group of refugees has already…

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…