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REFUGEES

Iman Sharif, 18, a survivor from a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community, which sank in waters near the Thailand-Malaysia border, is brought to a rescue operations center six days after the incident, at Langkawi, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025
Rohingya survivor recalls deadly boat sinking; more bodies found   
For years, many Rohingya have embarked on rickety wooden boats to try to reach neighboring countries to flee persecution in Myanmar or overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.
A Malian refugee woman at a refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on Nov. 4. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly half the world's refugees could be facing extreme exposure to climate-related shocks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2025
Nearly half of all refugees to face extreme climate hazards by 2040, says UNHCR
By the middle of the century, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the world are also forecast to experience nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year.
A member of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) searches for survivors after a boat carrying migrants from Myanmar capsized near the Malaysia-Thailand border on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 10, 2025
Eleven found dead in Thai-Malaysia search after Rohingya migrant boat sinks
About 70 people are believed to have been on board the capsized vessel, and the status of another boat carrying 230 passengers remained unclear.
Ukrainians living in Poland and their supporters gather outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2025
Poland’s support for Ukrainians is cracking at a dangerous time
Polish President Karol Nawrocki has voiced skepticism of Ukraine’s aspirations for NATO and European Union membership.
A Bedouin man who left Sweida governorate as part of an agreement between the Syrian government and Druze militants sleeps in a school that is used as a shelter on July 22.
WORLD
Nov 10, 2025
In Syria’s south, Bedouins uprooted by sectarian clashes see little hope of return
Fear, hostility and grievances on both sides leave little hope of displaced Bedouins returning soon to Sweida, a Druze-majority province.
Smugglers' boats sail with migrants onboard as they attempt to cross the English Channel off the northern French beach of Gravelines in September.
WORLD / Society
Nov 7, 2025
Under pressure? EU states on edge over migrant burden-sharing
A new "solidarity" system for managing asylum seekers, aimed at easing the burden on frontline countries such as Spain, Greece and Italy, will soon come into force.
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 at Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, on May 12.
WORLD
Oct 31, 2025
Trump sets refugee ceiling at record-low 7,500 with focus on white South Africans
The president said in an annual refugee determination dated Sept. 30 that admissions would be focused largely on South Africans from the country's white Afrikaner ethnic minority.
People fleeing sectarian violence in Syria cross a river into northern Lebanon near the town of Masoudiyeh on March 12.
WORLD / Society
Oct 30, 2025
Syria’s rocky transition brings new waves of displacement
Between December 2024 and July 2025, more than 430,000 people in Syria were newly displaced, according to the United Nations.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the Global Refugee Asylum System meeting in New York on Thursday. He urged countries to join a global campaign to roll back asylum protections.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2025
Trump administration urges other nations to join its push to restrict asylum rights
U.S. officials said that the existing global asylum system was being exploited by economic migrants and criminal groups seeking to profit from illegal immigration.
The Nagoya High Court overturned a lower court decision that obliged the government to recognize a Syrian man as a refugee.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2025
Court rules government not obliged to recognize Syrian man as refugee
The court overturned a lower court decision that obliged the government to recognize a Syrian man as a refugee.
With the U.S. stepping up its sweeping anti-immigration crackdown, rights activists warn deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025
'I don't cry anymore': In U.S. jail, Russian dissidents fear deportation
With the U.S. stepping up its sweeping anti-immigration crackdown, rights activists warn deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
A displaced Palestinian boy carries a tent on his head as he moves south in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2025
'Shocked and devastated': Gaza City assault leaves Palestinians traumatized
Israel has pummeled Gaza City with air strikes and tank fire in its bid to seize what it describes as one of Hamas' last strongholds.
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.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Kyoto gets its own teamLab installation, the largest in Japan
Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

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