Refugees

The tears of joy were impossible to contain Monday for the eight-year-old son of Kurdish asylum seeker Mehmet Colak, who was released on the day after being detained for 17 months at Tokyo Regional Detention House.“I feel so…

SEOUL - A decade after leaving her family behind to flee North Korea, the defector was overwhelmed with excitement when she spoke to her 22-year-old son on the phone for the first time in May after he too escaped into China.While…

TUMBES, PERU - Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Peru despite a crackdown on migrants without passports or visas meant to stem the flood of immigration from their crisis-stricken nation, as many lacking those documents filed…

Contemporary Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara urged visitors to an international aid symposium in Tokyo to try to “imagine” being in the shoes of displaced persons during a speech where he shared his experience of visiting refugee…

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Saturday his country must help Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence, even as it increases security and legal revisions to deter migrants from passing…

For most of its history, Australia managed with no specific federal legislation dealing with terrorism. That might seem shocking, since, in the past 18 years, politicians have passed more than 60 anti-terror laws, generally on a…

BANGKOK - Thai authorities have charged the captain and crew of a boat carrying 65 Rohingya Muslims with assisting illegal immigration after the group was found stranded on a southern Thai island, police said on Wednesday.The 29…

LONDON - Climate change poses a threat to peace in countries around the world in the coming decade, according to an annual peace index released on Wednesday that factored in the risk from global warming for the first time.Nearly a…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Tuesday they launched at least two drones targeting a southwest Saudi city that’s home to an air base.The Houthis’ Al-Masirah satellite news channel reported the rebels…

SAN MARCOS, GUATEMALA - A near-death experience in the Arizona desert a year ago won’t deter Francisco Perez from another attempt to migrate to the U.S., nor will an increased police presence in southern Mexico.The 23-year-old…

PARIS - Twelve orphaned children of French jihadists were flown home Monday from camps in Syria, along with two Dutch orphans who were handed over to the Netherlands, the French foreign ministry said.The latest repatriations of…

CUCUTA, COLOMBIA - Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four…

DEIR AL-AHMAR, LEBANON - Dozens of Syrian refugees dismantled their tents, filled trucks with belongings and left a camp they lived in for years in eastern Lebanon on Sunday after local authorities ordered them to evacuate in the…

It is nice to see the pro-government press displaying such solicitude for Hong Kong’s reputation. Germany got a lot of stick last month when it emerged that two fugitives from what we officially still call Hong Kong justice had been…

Australia should immediately release a legally blind and mentally ill Tamil refugee who has languished in immigration detention for nearly a decade, a key United Nations body has said. In a scathing assessment of the detention regime,…

Australian pilots have helped save dozens of asylum seekers from drowning at sea.The 41 asylum seekers were sailing from Sri Lanka to Australia 10 days ago when their vessel started to sink in the Indian Ocean.An Australian surveillance…

The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, will hold high-level meetings in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, with people smuggling at the top of the agenda. Dutton is due to meet Sri Lanka’s president Maith­ripala Sirisena, prime minister Ranil…

BEIRUT - Scores of women and children related to fighters of the Islamic State group carried their belongings and boarded buses and trucks Monday, leaving an overcrowded camp in the country’s northeast to return to their homes.A…

Over a scratchy phone line from Manus Island, Farhad Bandesh describes his life. “I’m one of those guys who are here and trapped in limbo,” he says. “Here I am in Hillside compound. This camp, the conditions are really harsh because…

Three decades after the Chinese Communist Party’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy student protests in Tiananmen Square, the memory survives — despite the country’s attempts to stamp it out.The June 4, 1989, crackdown in Beijing…