Refugees

US forces are withdrawing from northern Syria to allow Turkey's offensive - AP What will the Turkish offensive look like?  Recep Tayyip Erdoan has proposed a large-scale offensive across 480km of the Turkish-Syrian border to drive back the Kurdish-led Syria…

The top court in the European Union has ruled Facebook must delete content globally, not just in Europe, if a European court decides that the content is defamatory. The case was brought by an Austrian politician who said that a Facebook user had defamed and i…

Image copyrightAFP/GettyImage caption Sirak Asfaw, left, and Arthur Brand say they are waiting for the Ethiopian government to get in touch An 18th Century Ethiopian crown will finally be returned home after being hidden in a Dutch flat for 21 years. Eth…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday scolded countries that produce weapons for wars fought elsewhere and then refuse to take in refugees fleeing the very same conflicts. The 82-year-old Argentine pope, whose parents were of Italian immigrant sto…

The State Department announced that the American refugee program would be cut by almost half. The country will accept 18,000 refugees during the next 12 months, down from the current limit of 30,000. (For comparisons sake, President Obama said 110,000 refugee…

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By Mohammad Nurul Islam Cox's Bazar, BANGLADESH (Reuters) - Two Rohingya refugees were killed in a gun battle with Bangladeshi border guards as they tried to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar on Friday, officials said. More than 730,000 Rohingya refugees l…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Yazidi refugees in Iraq. The US says it will prioritise refugees from persecuted religious minorities The US government has said it will cut by almost half the number of refugees allowed into the country. The US State D…

President Trump on Thursday ordered that the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the U.S. in the coming year be cut to 18,000, down from the administration's previous refugee ceiling of 30,000. Evan Vucci/AP Updated 8:38 p.m. ET President Trump has o…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Thursday in a statement it would dramatically cut the number of refugees to be resettled in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year to 18,000, the lowest level in the history of the modern refugee progra…