Social Issues

Bosnian border police on Monday stopped about 100 migrants from reaching the border with European Union member Croatia amid a rise in the influx of people heading through the Balkans toward Western Europe. Police blocked the migrants near the Maljevac border crossing in northwestern Bosnia, ...

Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as ...

Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets. One ...

A papal emissary asked forgiveness Sunday from Roman Catholics in a region of Chile where people bitterly protested a now-resigned bishop who had once been a lieutenant of the country's most notorious predator priest. Archbishop Charles Scicluna said a Mass and told worshippers that "Pope ...

Ships in the Aquarius aid convoy docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea only to become pawns in Europe's fight over immigration. The Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo was ...

Democrats escalated their attacks on President Donald Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from parents who illegally cross the Mexican border, as public outrage over the practice balloons into an election-year controversy for Republicans. Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Chris ...

Nearly 5,000 families have been displaced in Yemen's flash-point Hodeida province this month, the U.N. said Sunday, as violence escalates in the rebel-held Red Sea region. After nearly a month of sporadic clashes, the Yemeni government — backed by Saudi Arabia and its allies — ...

Almost 80 years after the first "Kindertransport" evacuations of Jewish children to safety in Britain, 42 people set off Sunday on a memorial bike ride that will retrace their journey from Berlin to London. The cyclists set off from Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station, where a statue ...

Several thousand gay pride supporters held a march in Ukraine's capital on Sunday that lasted about 20 minutes despite opponents' attempts to block them. About 5,000 were on hand for the march, whose size was estimated at 2,000 by Ukraine's Interior Ministry and up to ...

A rescue ship with 629 migrants on board that is on its way to Spain has become a "symbol of the failure of the European Union," the head of the Spanish branch of Doctors without Borders (MSF), which helps operate the vessel, said Thursday. Spain's ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced a political challenge to his marijuana legalization bill Wednesday as a fight brewed over whether Canadians should be allowed to grow the plant at home. After several months of study, the Senate proposed a ban on home cultivation, as ...