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Bangladesh among top six countries

Seeking asylum in EU Bangladesh among top six countries

The European Union received at least 648,000 applications seeking seeking asylum in EU last year, a 33 per cent rise from 2020, with Bangladesh being one of top six countries whose citizens seeking ...

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar

Another ARSA man gunned down in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

Miscreants gunned down another member of the Myanmar armed group Arakan Salvation Army (ARSA) within a month.

In this file photo taken on 16 October, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk through a shallow canal after crossing the Naf River as they flee violence in Myanmar to reach Bangladesh

Ensuring security of refugees urgent

The number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past decade and stands at the highest level since records began, a trend that can be only reversed by a new, ...

Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel listens during a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on 14 June, 2022

Once darling of UK right, Patel's future on line in asylum battle

By her own admission, UK home secretary Priti Patel's hard line on immigration would have stopped her own parents coming to Britain but it has made her a darling of the right.

A child, a Ukrainian refugee, carries luggage along the platform as he arrives from Odesa at Przemysl Glowny train station, after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Przemysl, Poland, 27 March 2022.

Europe s expects ‘over 150,000 migrant arrivals’ this year

Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the ...

In this 26 July 2018 photo, Evelyn Zepeda cares for a four-year-old boy at her home in Austin, Texas. The boy`s adoptive mother and Zepeda`s biological mother, Josefina Ortiz Corrales, remains in an immigration detention center in south Texas, while Zepeda cares for her adopted son.

US in talks with Spain, Canada about taking more refugees

The Biden administration is in talks with Spain and Canada about taking more Western Hemisphere refugees for resettlement, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, signaling possible ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi.

UNHCR worried over funds for Rohingya

UNHCR has said the Rohingya issue should not move out of focus due to other crises. Agencies like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank should come forward in aid of the Rohingyas

Nigerian refugees return to ISIS stronghold

Nigerian refugees return to ISIS stronghold

A group of 4,000 Nigerians who fled years ago to neighbouring Niger because of jihadist violence have returned home despite ongoing insecurity and almost non-existent services in the area

A young Ukrainian refugee sits on a suicatse after disembarking from Moldova at the international airport of Bordeaux in Merignac on 21 April, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war Nearly 5.2 million Ukrainians flee war: UN

The number of Ukrainians who have fled the country since Russia's invasion is approaching 5.2 million, the UN refugee agency said Saturday

Dhaka-born Australian journalist Mridula Amin

Mridula Amin From lawyer to Australia’s young journalist of the year

Mridula gives her Bangladeshi origin and knowledge of Bangla language the most credit behind reaching her current position

People run toward a platform on their way to board a train at Slovyansk central station, in the Donbass region on 12 April 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Over 870,000 who fled war have returned: Ukraine

Ukraine's border force said Tuesday that more than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the start of the war have returned to the country, including a growing number of women and children.

Matiullah Mehrabi (L) and Sherbaz Safizada (R), two Afghan refugees who found a job in a sawmill pose in Aigueperse, centre France, on 24 February, 2022

For Afghans resettled in US, an uncertain future

In a storied corner of Boston, one of America’s newest families is finding its feet months after fleeing Afghanistan: Israr and Sayeda are starting work, studying English and setting up home to ...

The fire originated from a shanty in Camp-4 at 4:30pm n Friday

Shanties, learning centre gutted in Ukhiya Rohingya camp fire

A fire swept through shanties in Kutupalong Rohingya Camp-4 in Ukhiya Friday, burning seven shanties and a learning centre to ashes.

Evacuees from Mariupol area get settled at a refugee camp in the settlement of Bezymennoye during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk region, Ukraine 8 March 2022.

Ukraine starts evacuating civilians from some besieged areas

Ukraine began evacuating civilians from besieged cities on Tuesday after Russia allowed the creation of "humanitarian corridors", and Kyiv appealed to Moscow to keep its guns silent so that people ...

A man hugs his family after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, 4 March 2022.

Ukraine refugees to top 2 mn 'today' or 'tomorrow': UN

The number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is expected to top two million in the next two days, the head of the UN refugee agency said Tuesday

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