German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to unveil plans to significantly increase deportations of failed asylum seekers. The measures include

The US federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's request to reinstate a travel ban blocked by a federal judge on Friday.

US President Donald Trump has vowed to overturn a legal ruling which suspended his ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. He d

Canadian police have charged a French-Canadian student over the fatal shooting of six Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Quebec. Alexandre B

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed those fleeing war and persecution on Saturday even as Canadian airlines said they would turn back US-bound p

A boat carrying 31 people, including at least 28 Chinese tourists, has gone missing off the Malaysian coast, maritime authorities say. The

A US judge has issued a stay temporarily halting the deportation of visa holders or refugees under an executive order from President Trump.

The United Nations on Saturday urged US president Donald Trump to continue its strong leadership role and long tradition of protecting those who ar

The mayors of American cities large and small reacted with outrage on Wednesday as President Trump signed an executive order saying he would halt f

Fifty Moroccan and five Spanish border guards were injured when 1,100 African migrants attempted to storm a border fence. The migrants were a

Director General  of International Organisation for Migration William Lacy Swing in a message on Friday said over 7,000 people have lost their

Malaysian prime minister Najib Tun Razak on Sunday urged international bodies and ASEAN community countries to take action to stop the atrocities a

Poorly managed migration can contribute to the global impact of AIDS, but migration itself is not a cause for the disease, said IOM director genera

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants travel on to Europe if pushed by the EU.

Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC. Armed forc

An Asian housemaid in her 30s killed her Saudi woman sponsor who was in her 50s stabbing her more than 10 times with a cleaver, said spokesman of M

The Institute of International Education reported there are 61,287 Saudis studying in the United States, Makkah newspaper reported. A sourc

Australia's offshore detention policy for asylum seekers has been criticised by a top-ranking UN official. Australia sends asylum seekers who

A tsunami has hit after an earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.8 quake hit just after

About 240 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the