Thousands of civilians are fleeing Rwanda for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo causing fresh ethnic tensions in the region, the UN peacekeeping mission ...
Sri Lanka's navy on Tuesday seized two fishing trawlers carrying 60 illegal migrants heading for Australia, a spokesman said. The two boats were ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court ordered a new refugee hearing on Friday for a U.S. Army deserter who claimed she would face persecution because of her homosexuality if returned to the United States. The Federal Court of Canada threw out a ...
Sri Lankan asylum seekers leave Australian boat, ending monthlong standoff in Indonesia Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Wednesday left an Australian customs vessel anchored off Indonesia after they were promised they would be resettled, ending a monthlong standoff. The 46 ...
Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers left an Australian customs ship in Indonesia on Wednesday, ending a three-week protest over their claims for refugee status. The ethnic Tamil migrants were seen being ferried away from the ship, the Oceanic Viking, on an ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Stowed away on cargo ships and unsure where their dangerous journeys will take them, increasing numbers of African immigrants are arriving in Latin America as European countries tighten border controls. Some head to Mexico and Guatemala as a ...
In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 photo, Mario Rodas of Chelsea, Mass., poses at one of the gates to Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. As an undocumented Guatemalan-born immigrant in 2005, Rodas would have had to pay out-of-state tuition ...
A group of 22 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who left an Australian customs ship to come ashore in Indonesia will be allowed to stay for up to three months, according to an official. "We've given them a time frame of four weeks ...
A group of 22 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who left an Australian customs ship to come ashore in Indonesia will be allowed to stay for up to three months, according to an official. "We've given them a time frame of four weeks ...
Report: Somali terrorism suspect arrested in Netherlands had US green card A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday. Mohamud Said Omar, 43, was arrested last weekend ...
A group of 22 Sri Lankan asylum seekers left an Australian customs ship to come ashore in Indonesia Friday, police said, partially easing a standoff which began last month. The group, who were among a total of 78 ethnic Tamils on the ...
A group of about 20 Sri Lankan asylum seekers holed up on board an Australian customs ship in Indonesia have agreed to come ashore, the foreign ministry said Friday. The group, part of 78 ethnic Tamils on the Oceanic Viking anchored off ...
