UK drops DNA tests for refugees and asylum seekers
LONDON — Britain has dropped a policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after criticism that there is no scientific merit to the practice.The...
View ArticleAround the world
BAGHDADUnder international pressure, the Iraqi government Wednesday backed off its threat to close a refugee camp holding 3,400 Iranian exiles by the end of the month.Instead, Iraq said it will shut...
View ArticleScholars want help identifying slaves' origins
WASHINGTON — Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof the unidentified Obama has...
View ArticleSurge in child immigrants stresses support network
Child immigrant surge taxes support system McALLEN — An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their families has...
View ArticleTexas is the top destination for refugees, according to report
HOUSTON — A report has found Texas is the favorite destination for refugees seeking haven in the United States.The Houston Chronicle reported more than 5,600 refugees reached Texas last year. Houston...
View ArticleRights group urges Bangladesh to keep border open
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A global human rights group on Wednesday urged Bangladesh to keep its border open to people seeking refuge from sectarian violence in western Myanmar.New York-based Human Rights...
View ArticleThousands of Syrian refugees seek U.N. help
GENEVA — A rising tide of civilians fleeing Syria’s violence is hitting four neighboring countries where almost 150,000 are being helped in camps run by the U.N. refugee agency and its partners,...
View ArticleJordan wants to deport Syrian refugees who rioted
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordanian Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh said Wednesday that Syrian refugees responsible for violence in a camp near the border will be deported.Tarawneh did not say how many refugees...
View ArticleSome residents allowed back home after Texas blast
WEST — After days of waiting, the first group of residents who fled their homes when a fertilizer plant exploded in a blinding fireball will be allowed to go home, a town official said Saturday.The...
View ArticleMalkin: America is now an insane asylum for jihadists, hustlers and frauds
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon killing spree by foreign-born jihadists, see-no-evil bureaucrats in Washington are stubbornly defending America’s lax asylum policies. DHS Secretary Janet...
View ArticleAnother migrant ship capsizes off Italy; 27 dead
VALLETTA, Malta — For the second time in a week, a smugglers’ boat overloaded with migrants capsized in the Canal of Sicily on Friday as it made the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. At least 27...
View ArticleUN: Number of world's displaced over 50 million
BEIRUT (AP) — For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.Syrians...
View ArticleU.N. pushes for migrants to be called refugees
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase...
View ArticleU.S. weighs refugee status for Central American kids
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering creating a pilot program giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving...
View ArticlePoll shows Americans cool to border-crossing children
SAN DIEGO — Americans are wary of granting refugee status to children crossing the U.S. border to flee strife-torn countries in Central America, and most in an Associated Press-GfK poll say the U.S....
View ArticleUN says Syria refugees top 3 million mark
GENEVA — The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.read more
View ArticleUN says Syria refugees top 3 million mark
GENEVA — The civil war in Syria has forced 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year, creating a crisis that the U.N. refugee agency said requires the...
View ArticleSome 130,000 Syrians reach Turkey, fleeing IS
SURUC, Turkey — Some 130,000 Syrian refugees have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing the advance of Islamic State militants, Turkey's deputy prime minister said Monday, warning that the...
View ArticleSyrian refugees in Turkey reach 150,000
SURUC, Turkey — Refugees streaming into Turkey from Syria say their home city, once bustling with 400,000 citizens, has become a ghost town, emptied of all people but a few thousand fighters trying to...
View ArticleU.N. chief urges hope in world seeming to fall apart
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief called for world leaders Wednesday to join an international campaign to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refugees, the displaced and victims...
View Article
