Latest Political refugees News

A decade of documenting more than 63,000 migrant deaths shows that fleeing is more lethal than ever

Mar. 26, 2024 05:37 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the U.N. migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty...

Six more bodies are found days after a boat of Rohingya refugees capsized off Indonesia

Mar. 25, 2024 12:27 PM EDT

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Six more bodies of Rohingya refugees have been found at sea off Indonesia after a boat with more than 150 people aboard capsized last week, local authorities said Monday. The bodies of the six women were found off the coast of Aceh province, search and...

Bodies of 3 Rohingya refugees are found dead as Indonesia ends rescue for capsized boat

Mar. 24, 2024 05:12 AM EDT

CALANG, Indonesia (AP) — The bodies of three Rohingya refugees were found in the sea as the Indonesian authorities ended a search for survivors from a boat that capsized near Aceh province, the provincial search and rescue agency said Sunday. Fishers and a search and rescue team...

FACT FOCUS: Tyson Foods isn't hiring workers who came to the U.S. illegally. Boycott calls persist

Mar. 22, 2024 19:26 PM EDT

Conservative influencers and politicians are calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods after false claims spread online saying the multinational meat producer is planning to hire 52,000 people who came to the U.S. illegally. “Tyson is closing its facility in Perry, Iowa and laying off...

UN agencies fear about 70 missing or dead from capsized Rohingya refugee boat

Mar. 22, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said. A statement issued jointly by U.N....

Cyprus minister says a proposal to set up safe zones in Syria for refugees to return is advancing

Mar. 22, 2024 11:39 AM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus government proposal to enable repatriations of Syrian refugees by designating specific areas within the country as safe zones is “gaining ground” among the island nation's fellow European Union member states, the Cypriot interior minister said Friday. ...

Refugee camps in Chad are overcrowded and running out of aid, and Sudanese refugees keep coming

Mar. 22, 2024 07:46 AM EDT

METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from a deadly conflict in Sudan, the United Nations said. More than a million people in Chad, including refugees,...

Indonesia's rescue of Rohingya refugees at sea is a reminder of an ordeal that began in Myanmar

Mar. 21, 2024 21:08 PM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives. ...

US announces over $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan

Mar. 21, 2024 11:24 AM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two neighboring countries, to where at least a million people have fled in the nearly 1-year-old conflict. The aid package is expected to help alleviate the suffering of nearly 25...

Weeping, weak and soaked, dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat

Mar. 21, 2024 07:56 AM EDT

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety. An AP photographer aboard the rescue ship...