Canadian health authorities and aid workers are using an Olympic stadium to shelter asylum seekers as a growing number of people walk into the country from the United States. The Quebec Red Cross and local health authorities opened Montreal's Olympic Stadium on Wednesday to asylum seekers brought in by bus after ...
Critics want New York City to remove a statue in Central Park that honors a doctor who used slaves in ...
From his office in the shadowy "House of Leaves," Nesti Vako would listen to the private conversations of his fellow ...
A Roman Catholic priest in Virginia is taking a leave of absence after disclosing he once burned crosses as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Father William Aitcheson, a priest in the diocese of Arlington, described how he belonged to the Klan as a ...
As many as 200 migrants clashed near the northern French port city of Calais, using sticks and iron bars in five mass brawls that mainly pitted Afghans against Eritreans, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 21 migrants and six riot police were injured, none seriously, ...
A Chilean court on Monday ruled that a law legalizing abortion in certain cases is constitutional, a win for President Michelle Bachelet's center-left coalition and for groups that have campaigned for years against the country's strict ban. With the decision by Chile's Constitutional Court, women ...
A majority of Americans think Confederate monuments should be preserved in public spaces, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, a view that is at odds with efforts in many cities to remove them. The Aug. 18-21 poll found that 54 percent of adults said Confederate ...
People in the western part of Iraq's devastated city of Mosul have received their first major delivery of aid since Islamic State militants captured the city in 2014, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday. The agency began distributing food and ...
Romania's coast guard said Monday it has intercepted a fishing boat carrying 70 migrants suspected of trying to illegally enter Romania. Border police working for the coast guard said they spotted the vessel late Sunday near the Black Sea port of Constanta. Authorities escorted the ...
Four children from Sudan whose parents are believed to have been killed fighting for Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sirte last year were handed over to the Sudanese consul on Sunday to be taken to their country of citizenship. Sirte was a stronghold ...
Police have found 126 Central American migrants, many suffering severe dehydration, packed into a truck in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, the country's National Immigration Institute said. It said 119 of the migrants were from Honduras and the rest from Guatemala. Veracruz state police ...
The number of asylum seekers who illegally crossed the U.S. border into Canada more than tripled last month, according to Canadian government data released on Thursday, as migrants worried about the U.S. administration's immigration crackdown head north. More than 3,100 people walked across the border ...
Spain's maritime rescue service has saved more than 600 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco in the past 24 hours, making it one of its busiest days so far this year. The service said it rescued 16 migrants early Thursday in the ...
Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organized by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. The statues, including one of Gen. Robert E. Lee and ...
An investigation prompted by a Connecticut fire chief's refusal to hang a photograph of the department's first black chief on a wall of honor faulted him for racial insensitivity and concluded minority firefighters have reason to perceive racial bias in the department. The city of ...
