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REFUGEES

Chinese migrants intent on reaching the United States walking in the jungle of Panama’s Darien Gap on March 3, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 16, 2025
He risked everything to leave China for the U.S. Then he was sent back.
Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.
Migrants gather outside an office of Mexico's Refugee Aid Commission to obtain a humanitarian visa that allows them safe passage to continue their journey to Mexico's northern border to seek asylum in the U.S., in Tapachula, Mexico, in September 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2025
Trump administration plans push at U.N. to restrict global asylum rights
Under the proposed framework, asylum seekers would be required to claim protection in the first country they enter, not a nation of their choosing.
Palestinians transport their belongings as they evacuate Gaza City toward southern areas of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2025
Palestinians displaced in Gaza return to a city under Israeli assault
Many are arriving to find no space for shelter, even in an area designated by Israel as a humanitarian zone.
Mourners pray during the funeral of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire on Friday, in Gaza City on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 6, 2025
Israeli military urges Gaza City residents to leave, then bombs high-rise tower
The assault threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering there from nearly two years of fighting.
Israeli tanks are positioned on the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2025
Israel says expecting 1 million Gazans to flee new offensive
In Jerusalem, hundreds of Israeli protestors took to the streets to call for a truce and hostage release deal after nearly two years of war.
Iraqi refugee Humam al-Gburi, 34, and retired nurse Ursula Panke, 85, in Altena, Germany, on July 15. Since Humam's arrival in 2015, he has been supported by Ursula, who volunteers as his mentor.
WORLD / Society
Sep 2, 2025
German town that welcomed migrants finds adding people won't fix fundamentals
Political failure to tackle rising inflation, job losses in the auto industry and a sense of economic decline now makes migrants a target for the anti-immigrant AfD.
Flood-affected victims rest under a shelter at a makeshift relief camp in the Kasur district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 1, 2025
Floods leave women struggling in Pakistan's relief camps
Pregnant women are vulnerable to infectious diseases, according to doctors in a medical camp set up by a local NGO.
Begum, a 35-year-old mother of seven children, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 18. Begum will marry off one of her daughters after a funding shortage shuttered thousands of schools in the refugee camps.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 25, 2025
School closures push Rohingya refugee children into marriage and work
A funding crisis has led to the suspension of many Rohingya learning centers, leaving children to play in the mud or rain.
Meliana Bruguera, 41, poses with her children Victoria, 9, and Rurik, outside Madrid, on Aug. 8.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Fleeing Maduro then Trump, Venezuelans seek refuge in Spain
For the first time, Venezuelans were the largest group applying for asylum in the EU.
Anti-immigrant protestors demonstrate in Epping, northeast of London, on July 27.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
U.K. antimigrant protests continue after asylum reforms set out
Britain has seen regular protests in recent weeks outside hotels housing asylum seekers, spurred in part by concerns about public safety.
Political activist Tony Chung attends a demonstration outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office in London to protest the introduction of Hong Kong's Article 23 national security law on March 23, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 19, 2025
U.K. grants asylum to Hong Kong democracy activist Chung
Tony Chung, who became the youngest person to be jailed under the city's security law in 2021 at the age of 20, vows to never give up.
Pro-democracy legislator Ted Hui (center) is detained by police during a pro-democracy rally in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 12, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 18, 2025
Hong Kong democracy activist Hui granted asylum in Australia
The granting of protection visas to him, his wife, children and parents came more than four years after he left the city to evade national security charges.
An Israeli tank maneuvers near Gaza City as seen from Israeli side of the border on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 17, 2025
Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to southern Gaza
Gaza residents will be provided with tents and other gear as they are moved from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety," the Israeli military said.
Rescued migrants rest aboard the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by German NGO Sea-Watch, as it makes its way towards the designated port of Salerno, Italy, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 14, 2025
EU security measures cut illegal arrivals, but migrants take riskier routes
Experts say migrants are adapting to stricter borders controls and becoming more reliant on smugglers and newer, often more dangerous paths.
"My heart and soul are in Deir el-Zor. No money, no homes or luxury in the world can compensate for what I’ve lost there," said Ehab Mzeal, a 41-year-old Syrian. However, he is grateful for his life in Europe, "I like Germany for one reason: it stood by us."
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2025
A journey to belong: Migrants describe 10 years in Europe
Migrants from around the world discuss the rewards and challenges of their new lives in Europe.
Migrants picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France, in Dover, southeast England, on Feb. 9
WORLD
Aug 5, 2025
U.K.-France migrant returns deal takes effect
A "one-in, one-out" deal in which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France has come into force.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron after a joint news conference at a military base at Northwood Headquarters in northwest London on July 10
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2025
U.K. and France set to ratify 'one in, one out' boat migrant returns deal
France will accept the return of undocumented people arriving in the U.K. by boat while the U.K. will accept an equal number of asylum-seekers with British family connections.
A shipwreck of a boat, used by refugees in the past, is stranded at a shore in the northern part of Lesbos island, Greece
WORLD
Aug 1, 2025
On Europe's hardened frontier, Greek island keeps migrants at bay
Ten years after it was a hot spot for migrants, Lesbos shows how far government responses have hardened against people seeking refuge in Europe.
Afghans expelled from Iran arrive at a processing center in the border town of Islam Qala, Afghanistan, on July 10.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 28, 2025
Iran forcing out Afghans en masse after Israel spying claims
Iran is rounding up Afghan nationals due to accusations that non-documented migrants from the country spied for Israel and helped it launch missiles.
People from the first group of white South Africans granted refugee status for being deemed victims of racial discrimination under U.S. President Trump's Refugee plan, listen to welcoming remarks during a meet and greet event, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia in May.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 26, 2025
U.S. diplomats asked if nonwhites qualify for Trump's South African refugee program
The State Department said U.S. policy is to consider both Afrikaners and other racial minorities for resettlement, echoing guidance posted on its website.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japan dispatches five language education 'partners' to India
Five members of the Japan Foundation's Nihongo Partners program (front) gather at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Monday.
Struggling train firm in Chiba Prefecture turns to self-deprecating humor
"Laughter is important when you're in a difficult situation," said Katsunori Takemoto, president of Choshi Electric Railway, on Aug. 5 in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.

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