The Germany Interior Ministry rejected media rumors that the German government was bringing Syrian refugees to Germany on chartered trains, German Tagesspiegel newspaper reported on Monday.
When boats packed with refugees capsized in the Mediterranean, resulting in countless deaths, Western powers ought to acknowledge their responsibilities for the tragedies, and should do more to embrace the hopeless.
Some 3660 Syrian refugees fleeing clashes between Islamic State (IS) militant group and the Syrian Kurdish fighters have swarmed into Turkey over the past three days, private Dogan News Agency reported on Saturday.
A vessel carrying approximately 200 illegal migrants sank off the coasts of Rhodes island in southeastern Aegean Sea on Monday, local authorities said.
A man, a woman and a toddler drowned on Monday and 90 other undocumented migrants and refugees were rescued as the vessel carrying them sank off the coast of Rhodes island in southeastern Aegean Sea, according to the latest official countdown by Greece's Coast Guard.
Kenya's directive last week giving the UN refugee agency three-month to repatriate all Somali refugees in the country's Dadaab refugee camp has caused anxiety with opinion divided over whether they should leave or not.
Pakistan will register around 1 million Afghan refugees, Pakistani and Afghan officials said on Tuesday after talks in Islamabad.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday reported that some 16,000 Nigerian refugees have fled to the Far North region of neighboring Cameroon over the weekend to escape clashes in northeast Nigeria between regional military forces and insurgents.
Shanghai plans to apply for the neighborhood that sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII to be inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR) has warned that an ongoing funding shortage could leave as many as a million refugees across Iraq and Syria without proper help as they prepare for the winter, a UN spokesperson said here Tuesday.
The arrival of nearly 1,500 refugees from Kobane in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Tuesday brought the total number of people to flee the northern Syrian town to Iraq to 7,318 since late September, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.
Visiting German Foreign Affairs Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday that the problem in the Syrian crisis is not refugees but rather the ongoing violence and parties that "refuse to find a solution."
Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday that the Syrian crisis has inflicted a huge burden on Lebanon, and that Australia will continue its support to Lebanon on the Syrian refugee issue.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said here Monday that his country is looking into increasing aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan, local media reported.
Pakistan in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency on Tuesday started to issue new Proof of Registration cards to more than 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees that will allow them to stay legally until the end of 2015, officials said.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that 2013 will witness the highest number of refugees worldwide since 1994, and that the bulk of the asylum- seekers are hosted by developing countries.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum took the "Jewish Refugees in Shanghai" exhibition to Los Angeles on Sunday.
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