Raging battles on Myanmar's border with China have claimed dozens more lives, military and official sources said Wednesday, as the mounting death toll landed a fresh blow to the government's faltering peace process. Fighting broke out between troops and ethnic minority rebels in the Chinese-speaking ...
The number of migrants applying for refugee status in Canada after crossing the border from the United States has been rising since the beginning of the year, officials said Thursday. "Canada has seen an increase in the number of asylum claims in January of this ...
Migrants waged running battles with Macedonian police Sunday after they were stopped from scaling the border fence with Greece near the border town of Idomeni, and aid agencies reported that hundreds of stranded travelers were injured. Macedonian police used tear gas, stun grenades, plastic bullets ...
South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals' border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North's nuclear test last week. The ...
Jordan has acknowledged that more than 12,000 Syrian refugees have amassed at its border, awaiting entry. The confirmation by government spokesman Mohammed Momani comes after Jordan initially dismissed a similar estimate provided by the U.N. refugee agency as exaggerated. Momani told The Associated Press on Tuesday ...
Border Patrol agents in South Texas have rescued 11 immigrants being smuggled in a closed refrigerated trailer hauling produce. Officials on Monday announced the rescue that took place at the Falfurrias checkpoint. The tractor-trailer rig was being inspected Saturday when a law enforcement dog drew attention ...
Slovenian government said Monday it would take urgent measures to strengthen control of its Schengen border with Croatia, fearing an expected new wave of migrants would be scarcely manageable. "The government has prepared additional urgent measures to manage the migrants' flow, including the necessary measures ...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere wants to turn away migrants at the border if they clearly have no chance of gaining asylum, a regional newspaper reported, citing a draft bill from his ministry. Passauer Neue Presse cited the draft bill as saying that like ...
Hungary permitted migrants to use normal train services to move closer to Western Europe through its porous western border Sunday, abandoning the visa checks it previously used to prevent them from easily reaching Austria and Germany by public transportation. The unexpected move came just a ...
Serbia will never close its borders to migrants, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Reuters on Wednesday, but he said EU leaders must help frame a plan on how to cope with the tens of thousands pouring into the Balkan region. About 100,000 migrants, many of ...
Dozens of Colombians began fleeing their homes in Venezuela on Tuesday, wading knee-deep through a river separating the two countries, as President Nicolas Maduro vowed to extend a crackdown on illegal migrants living along the border. The Colombians said they chose to abandon their modest, ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the temporary closure of a major border crossing with Colombia and said Thursday he would bolster military forces there following an attack on three soldiers who were looking for smugglers. Maduro announced in a national broadcast that he would ...
