Accountants in Hong Kong marched Friday in support of the pro-democracy movement, and the Canadian Consulate banned its staff from leaving the city on official business after a British Consulate employee was arrested in mainland China.
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None of the thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh turned up for a planned repatriation to Myanmar on Thursday, demanding that they be guaranteed safety and citizenship.
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From fiery protests outside detention centers in Texas, New Jersey and Rhode Island to a sit-in that blocked an Amazon store in New York, a coalition of liberal Jewish groups is increasingly making itself heard as it fights the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Read moreWe Are the People Inc., which promotes human rights in Bangladesh, sued Facebook for $5 million, claiming it booted it from the platform without notice, after it spent nearly $1 million on its Facebook page, in New York County Supreme Court.
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More than 80 people were evacuated from an immigrant rescue ship on Tuesday, capping a drama that saw 15 passengers jump into the sea to escape deteriorating conditions aboard and spurred Spain to dispatch a naval ship to end a weekslong humanitarian crisis with Italy.
Read moreA Honduran family claims in a federal complaint that U.S. Customs and Border Protection separated the parents from their 3-year-old child and sent the father to jail in Starr County, Texas, where he died.
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Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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In a tiny building in a cramped narrow lane in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, Mohammad Saleem and his family are cut off from the world and trapped in their home as an Indian military lockdown enters its third week.
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China lashed out at Taiwan on Monday for its offer of political asylum to participants in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement, a day after hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully in the latest massive demonstration in the Chinese territory.
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Several refugees jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government’s hardline interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark.
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China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom said Thursday that Beijing will not “sit on its hands” if the situation in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate after more than two months of near-daily street protests.
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A Guatemalan immigration agreement signed with the Trump administration won’t work because the Central American nation does not have the resources, the country’s president-elect says.
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Protesters crippled operations at Hong Kong’s international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrators took over the terminals in their push for democratic reforms.
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One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all flights after thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters crowded into the main terminal Monday afternoon.
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The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not.
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Russia’s media oversight agency said Sunday that it wanted Google to stop YouTube users from posting information about unsanctioned political protests or the Russian government would feel free to retaliate against the American company.
Read moreHong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam on Friday warned that two months of pro-democracy demonstrations were causing economic chaos in the city, but ruled out making concessions to “silence the violent protesters.”
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The Trump administration has found a new way to punish refugees and asylum-seekers who come to the United States: Fine them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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For now, Mohammed Kebir, a 51-year-old Moroccan clothes vendor, is sleeping in his car, and working out where he’ll live next. He just got thrown out of his home: an abandoned school building where some 350 people — most of them immigrants — lived.
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Up to 150 people bound for Europe, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned Thursday after the boats they were traveling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the country’s coast guard and the U.N. refugee agency said.
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