Unwelcome Refugees

Two children, four women and a man drowned when a boat carrying them overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, the coast guard said, the deadliest incident this year involving migrants trying to reach Greece. Another 57 people were rescued in the…

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted some two dozen Europe-bound migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Saturday that a wooden boat carrying at least 22 African migrants, all of them men, was i…

As Palestinians mark 52 years since Israel captured the whole of historic Palestine, their bid for self-determination remains in the hands of Israel and its strongest ally, the United States. The yet-to-be-revealed US Middle East peace plan, dubbed the "deal…

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted a boat carrying 80 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Wednesday that the rubber vessel had 80 African migran…

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday slammed the United States's Middle East peace plan as a "great betrayal of the Islamic world" and urged Gulf rivals not to back it. Washington is gearing up to roll out economic aspects of its long-aw…

Libya’s coastguard says it has intercepted a boat carrying nearly 100 Europe-bound migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast. The rubber vessel had 92 African and Bengali migrants, including 11 women and four children, spokesman Ayoub Gassim said on Tue…

Facebook recently banned several far-right extremists, including Canadian Faith Goldy, who made a failed bid for Toronto mayor last year. Far-right media darling Lauren Southern was denied admission to the United Kingdom last year because of her extremist pol…

In 2011 I went to Athens, Greece, with the intention of teaching migrant church leaders the Bible. I had no idea what God was about to do in my heart. We’re living in an age of migration. Never before have so many people been on the move. In 2015, more…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Growing numbers of Danish Muslims say they have faced verbal abuse, exclusion and hate crimes since mainstream political parties began adopting anti-immigrant policies previously the preserve of the far right. The ruling center-right …

After an earthquake tore through Haiti in 2010, killing more than 100,000 people, aid agencies spread across the country to work out where the survivors had fled. But Linus Bengtsson, a graduate student studying global health at the Karolinska Institute in St…