Refugees

Sooner or later we won't have a choice but to set an upper limit, says Josef Schuster

Debate over the Obama administration's plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year has intensified

Virgin Air chairman questions if all Americans will be blamed for the past actions of Ku Klux Klan

Carson said allowing refugees into the United States would put Americans at risk

Canadian media reports come amid fears that IS militants could slip into the country posing as refugees

US President Barack Obama said the world must offer haven to refugees

CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott later apologised for “editorialising” her tweet

The Republican legislation passed overwhelmingly, 289 to 137

After the House vote, Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, called such screening both impractical and impossible

Pakistani and Afghani nationals were among those arrested

Less than 18,000 refugees remain in the camps, according to a joint statement from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

The authorities now know of about 750 people from Germany who had travelled to Syria and Iraq

The refugees who remain are viewed with deep suspicion inside Pakistan and are routinely accused by authorities

'We are concerned about reactions by some states to end the programs being put in place' UNHCR

Says about 10 individual migrants were under investigation as possible terrorists or war criminals

Refugees fear Paris attacks shifting public opinion against the Berlin government's welcoming asylum policy

Trudeau faces calls to delay bringing in Syrian refugees due to security concerns, following attacks in Paris

A journalist found the letter in a waterproof bag on a beach where boatloads of migrants have been arriving daily

Under the EU plan, Poland was to take in 4,500 refugees, adding to some 2,000 it has already accepted

The move triggers a flood of support online from well-wishers urging clemency

HRW called on international community and Turkey to act urgently to ensure syrians have greater access to education

Pakistani citizens, along with Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are among the largest migrant groups to arrive in the bloc

One of the children's bodies had been recovered, but the search for a six-year-old boy, was still under way

The refugee crisis in Europe has boosted the popularity of German anti-Islam organisation, PEGIDA

Suspected killer confesses overnight to murdering another child

US has admitted about 1,500 refugees since 2011, while Europe is struggling with an influx of hundreds of thousands

Children made up 20 per cent of the total arrival

Seven people were still missing but the rest managed to reach land safely, a coastguard spokeswoman said

Human rights violations appear to be an integral part of a policy by Czech Govt to deter migrants, statement says

Sceptical voices are being raised about the potential costs of the huge influx to Europe's biggest economy

Police declined to estimate the number of protesters but media put it at 15-20,000

The Church of England bishops called on Cameron to accept 50,000 refugees, in a letter initially sent in September

Experts suggest the change could be positive as it could broaden outlook, and fears of radicalisation may be overblown

Boy was found unconscious by a coast guard patrol boat

The scheme follows months of tensions over the more than 600,000 people who have flooded into Europe this year

Europe has been seeking to clamp down on people smugglers in the Mediterranean, where more than 3,000 people have died

Pakistani activist, who first came to Britain in 2005, says the immigration system in UK wasted 11 years of his life

Data shows that 2,676 children were rescued from trafficking in 2014, against 3,834 the previous year

Six ships are already in place in international waters off the coast of Libya

Net migration into Britain reached a high of 330,000 people in the year to March, far above the 100,000 level promised

Cambodia agrees to take Australia's unwanted refugees in exchange for millions of dollars in aid for next four years

75 bodies were found around Tripoli and another 10 in Sabratah, 70 kms to the west, Red Crescent official says

Estimated to be 6-12 months old, was found dressed in green trousers and white t-shirt on the beach of a hotel

Most Afghan refugees are unlikely to ever return to their homeland

Norway controls an external EU frontier with Russia, a border which has been crossed by more than 250 Syrian refugee

Around 3,000 people have died attempting the journey since January

The restaurant has opened a branch in Sydney and operates exclusively with female asylum seekers as chefs

According to testimony from the survivors, 49 people were on board the dinghy when it capsized

Italian administrator Mario Morcone expects to collect fingerprints from up to 90 percent of the migrants

Four Rohingya women, aged from 14 to 28, said they were attacked by a group of men on Monday evening