Unwelcome Refugees

SEOUL (Reuters) - A group of 11 North Koreans who were detained in Vietnam while seeking to defect to South Korea have been released thanks to the help of European institutions, a Seoul-based activist group said on Saturday. The eight women and three men we…

January 03, 2020  06:36 PM Shortly before the sun rose in Idlib, Yaman al-Hammo made the decision he had long been dreading. He had just spent the night in the basement next to his two sons, his wife and his mother listening to the detonations of barrel bom…

Eight people, including three women, have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's Aegean coast, Turkey's Ministry of Interior has said. A ministry statement on Friday said a rubber boat with about 15 people on board sank late on Thursday off…

No one had a well-defined plan to send microfilm specialists to war when Franklin Roosevelt agreed to established the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC). The agency initially struggled to gain traction. yet over the …

As Russian and Syrian jets have dramatically stepped up their bombardment of jihadist-held Idlib over the past three weeks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again warned a massive wave of refugees is headed into Turkey, but that his country is witho…

Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighbourhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The boys taunted them, calling them "slave" and other slurs. Then they trie…

The Assembly on Tuesday just about unanimously passed a resolution pressurising the Centre to withdraw the patently anti-Muslim Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). O. Rajagopal, the only Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, was the sole dissenting voice i…

A desperate scramble from Syrias Idlib province has begun. Pouring from the last rebel stronghold as state troops advance, the regions weary populace face a perilous journey. The road north is their only real hopebut strafed daily by machine gun fire and airc…

A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43C (109.4F). Refugees cower to the ground as bullets whiz by. These rough pencil sketches by an Eritrean refuge…

The murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta, 2017) Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist, was murdered in 2017 and two years on the scandal has seen three senior cabinet ministers stand down and the country’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, prom…