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World must recognize Pakistan for hosting huge refugee population: PM

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged the UN Refugee Agency to play its role in promoting durable solution to address the situation of...
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Karachi Garbage Story: Ragpicker children at mercy of… everyone

Seemingly in mid twenties, Jumma Khan doesn't know his exact age because he has nothing to tell him that. With no birth certificate, identity...
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Subsisting Afghan SRK hopes for silver lining in Karachi after Taliban ban cinema

"You can call up any Afghan across the globe and ask them about me, I bet they'll know me," said Farhad Khan whose impersonation...

Germany to take up to 100 children from refugee camps

Berlin will take in 80 to 100 children from Greek refugee camps, an official in the German capital said on Tuesday, as concern mounts about migrants amassing on the Turkish-Greek border

Dakota Fanning responds to casting backlash over Muslim refugee role

She will be seen as a white Muslim woman in 'Sweetness in the Belly'.

South Sudan doctor wins UN refugee prize

A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre won the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen award.

Top math laureate gets new medal after prize stolen

A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week will get a replacement medal.

Kurdish refugee wins ‘Nobel of mathematics’ Fields medal

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor Caucher Birkar was among four winners of the prestigious Fields prize, dubbed the Nobel for mathematics.

World Cup fever still raging in Rohingya refugee camps

The World Cup may be over but passion for the game burns bright in the world's largest refugee camp, which hosts nearly a million Rohingya Muslims forced out of Myanmar.

Rohingya Muslims face difficult Ramazan in refugee camps

Rohingya refugee dreamed of Ramazan back in his own village, but for M.D. Hashim and others like him living in squalor in Bangladesh, the start of the Islamic holy month now serves as a bitter reminder of everything they have lost since being driven from Myanmar in an army crackdown.

Rohingya refugee leaders draw up demands ahead of repatriation

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp have drawn up a list of demands they want Myanmar to meet before authorities begin...

Deadly ‘long-lost disease’ rages through Rohingya camps

COX'S BAZAAR: In a makeshift bamboo clinic, small children struggle to draw breath through surgical masks, victims of a forgotten but deadly disease that...

Merkel ‘horrified’ by knife attack on pro-refugee mayor

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday expressed horror at a near-fatal knife attack against a town mayor, apparently motivated by his pro-refugee stance...

Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to cooperate on Rohingya refugee repatriation

NAYPYITAW: Myanmar and Bangladesh on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of Rohingya refugees and took steps to boost border security as relations...

Bangladesh police hunt man who married Rohingya refugee

COX’S BAZAR: Bangladesh police were Sunday searching for a man who defied a ban and married a Rohingya refugee, hundreds of thousands of whom...

Myanmar ready to take back Muslim refugees: minister

DHAKA: A Myanmar minister on Monday proposed taking back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh after a military crackdown, according to Dhaka's...

Merkel has no regrets over refugee policy despite political cost

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she has no regrets about her 2015 decision to open the country’s borders to hundreds of thousands of...

Sweden acquits Syrian of ‘terror crime’ after attack

STOCKHOLM: A court on Friday acquitted a Syrian refugee accused of attacking a Shia cultural centre in southern Sweden, saying there was no evidence...

Trump faces wall of resistance to immigration order

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has crushed the most defiant display yet of official opposition to his immigration and refugee restrictions -- but resistance...

Hungary hands migrant-kicking journalist probation

BUDAPEST: A Hungarian television camerawoman who made headlines in 2015 after tripping and kicking migrants fleeing police was found guilty of the misdemeanor of vandalism and...
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