More than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained in Thailand after receiving U.N. refugee status will be deported by next week, probably to a third country, officials said Wednesday. Deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said representatives
The British government in the next few weeks is set to announce plans to start moving migrants onto military bases and disused ferries, according to a report. Asylum seekers who have crossed the English Channel by boat have remained in hotels, but
A commander of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad killed in Syria in what the group described as an assassination by Israeli agents was buried on Monday at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus. His wife, speaking at the
She said: “The government are handing these hotels over to private companies who want to pay as little as possible. You’ve got traumatised people who are stuck in their rooms all day with nothing to do.” Another member of the public called
On the defensive after a deadly migrant boat shipwreck near an Italian beach, Italy’s right-wing government is contending that Russian mercenaries in Libya are behind an uptick in migrant arrivals in alleged retaliation for Western support for Ukraine. On Monday evening, Defense
A youth has received a 10-year jail sentence for the fatal stabbing of an Afghan refugee in a Twickenham park just hours after he was sentenced for possessing a knife. We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this
A massive fire at a crammed camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left thousands of the refugees homeless Sunday, a fire official and the United Nations said. No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque,
A UK charity which sends clowns into war zones to cheer up traumatised children has put smiles back on the faces of almost 4,000 Ukrainian refugee kids, forced to flee their homes in terror. This week Unicef warned that Russia’s invasion is
Refugee charities operating in Calais are “fuelling” Channel crossings, the deputy chairman of the Tory Party said. Lee Anderson warned of what he called a “multi-million-pound industry” operating around illegal crossings, consisting of “hotels” and “lefty lawyers”. He accused the charities of
A Sudanese teen refugee has been released from a detention center in western Libya where he was held for five months after being kidnapped and tortured by gunmen demanding ransom, his family said Wednesday. Mazen Adam, 15, from Sudan’s conflict-torn Darfur region,