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REFUGEES

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.
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.
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
Doctrine forms the core of Sanseito’s strategy, with some caveats
Crowds attend a Sanseito rally in the city of Saitama during the Upper House election.
Former PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2007.
LDP and Nippon Ishin fine-tuning deal to form coalition
Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi (second from right) and Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Fumitake Fujita (second from left) meet in Tokyo on Thursday.
What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival
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As they wrestle for power, Japan’s political parties must remember their base
Rengo's head Tomoko Yoshino speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 8.
Sumo is about to hit London and the West with a force previously unseen
Preparations advance on Monday for the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Number of scenarios now on the table for who might be Japan’s next prime minister
Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi (right) celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4.
Pace eyes great strides for Japan’s art market
Pace Japan Vice President Kyoko Hattori, the de facto head of the nation’s business, believes a larger, more lucrative art market will allow Japan to be more attractive for collectors.

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