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 Refugees arrive on the Scottish Isle of Bute. The Home Office has announced a policy that refugees applying to settle permanently in Britain face a ‘safe return review’ after five years. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Tens of thousands of refugees who apply to live permanently in Britain are to be required to undergo an official review to see if it is safe for them to be sent back home,...
Mercy Corps, a leading American charity that uses Turkey as a base to aid hundreds of thousands of civilians upended by the war in neighboring Syria, was forced to curtail...
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Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration and travel includes a modified version of the refugee ban that existed in the original order. Starting at 12:01 a.m....
A woman smokes a cigarette at a refugee camp in Thessaloniki (AFP Photo/SAKIS MITROLIDIS)
Brussels (AFP) - The EU on Thursday stepped up warnings that countries could be punished if they fail to share the burden of mainly Syrian refugees stranded in Greece and...
The United Nations has accused the Syrian government of deliberately attacking an aid convoy near Aleppo last September, and labeled a forced evacuation of opposition-held...
More than 25,000 youngsters – nine out ten of whom were unaccompanied – made the perilous journey in 2016 Unicef
The number of refugee children trying to reach Europe by boat has doubled in the last year, with thousands now attempting the deadly Mediterranean crossing every month, ...
UNHCR and partners have opened a new settlement area in Arua district, northern Uganda that is set to become host to thousands of arriving refugees from South Sudan. The new...