Unwelcome Refugees

Midnight Traveler Language Arabic, English, Turkish Availability Select theaters September 18 Over the past few years, the plight of political refugees has been a divisive social issue in nations around the globe, with some of our more nationalist, rabbl…

I spent sixteen months of my childhood in limbo, first as an undocumented Iranian immigrant in Dubai and then in a refugee camp outside Rome, in the carcass of an old hotel that the government used to house asylum seekers. Conjuring up memories of those days,…

When Ebou Mass left Gambia, at 14, he didnt know exactly where hed end up he just felt like, for his familys sake, he needed to go. A dictator had ruled his country since before he was born. One in three households scraped by on less than a dollar a…

Image copyrightAFP/Getty ImagesImage caption Turkey is hosting more than 3.6 million Syrians who have fled the civil war Turkey's president has said that up to three million Syrian refugees could return to their country to live in a "safe zone" in the nort…

This weekend, while idling in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Italy, the bright red and white Ocean Viking humanitarian ship suddenly set off in a strong, clear course toward the southern-most Italian island of Lampedusa. The ship had just received p…

Athens, Greece - Greece's announcement that it would "simplify" its asylum procedure has met such concern from human rights groups and the judiciary that the government may be reconsidering its course of action. The two-month-old conservative New Democracy g…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Ursula von der Leyen will replace Jean-Claude Juncker on 1 November Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has found herself under fire for nominating a commissioner responsible for "Protecting our E…

Rwanda has agreed to take in hundreds of African refugees and asylum-seekers held in detention centres in Libya under an agreement reached with the UN refugee agency and the African Union.  A first group of 500 people, including children and at-risk youth, p…

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) Humanitarian groups SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders rescued 50 migrants on Sunday from a rubber dinghy off Libya's coast and brought them aboard their charity ship, Ocean Viking. An AP journalist aboard the Norwegian…

Shakhtar last played at their home ground in May 2014 A little after 10pm, there's not one set of footsteps to be heard on the pavements of Donetsk. It's an hour before the nightly military curfew starts but no-one's taking any chances and the city is alrea…