Refugees

A Rohingya couple was shot dead during a gunfight in a border town camp hours after they were detained by Bangladesh police, officials said Sunday, the latest killings amid growing tensions between the refugees and authorities. Police in Teknaf town said the…

About 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in the summer of 2017, and almost all of them, like Hefzurs parents, are living in camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A few thousand have been admitted to the United States part of a dwindling number of refugees granted reset…

Today in History for September 16th

Its Sept. 15, but because time has lost all context and meaning and we live in a ever-spinning technicolor nightmare kaleidoscope, we are entering week three of the one-sided feud Donald Trump has against federal weather agencies for questioning his incorrect…

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled a $6-billion tax cut Sunday in his first campaign swing through British Columbia. Scheer visited the home of a couple in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey to promise he will cut the tax rate on the lowest federal incom…

Faced with the escalating conflict in Idlib, authorities are beginning to get tough with Syrian refugees. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times/Representational Image) When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in early September that Turkey could be forced t…

Art is, in part, a record: of abiding truths, of how ugliness and beauty coexist in the world, inextricably intertwined, and how we must acknowledge both, if not make peace between them. The American photographer Fazal Sheikhs portraits of Somali refugees tak…

But beyond the material question of enrichment is the spiritual one of ennoblement. Of what can Americans be more proud than that we so often opened our doors to those for whom every other door was shut? All of which makes this a moment of unique shame for t…

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a fierce dissent on Wednesday after a majority of her colleagues allowed President Donald Trump’s effort to ban most migrants from Central America from seeking asylum in the United States to go forward while legal c…