North Korean Refugees Bid for Freedom as Senate Passes Historic ...
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In a move that will add to current concerns about North Korea&#39;s human rights record, 44 refugees from the impoverished country have sought refuge in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A tense standoff where several North Koreans risked deportation and possible execution for seeking refuge in a Canadian embassy came to a safe conclusion Wednesday.
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North Korea appealed to refugees who have sought asylum in the South to return to the impoverished state, avoiding for once labeling them "human scum" and saying a warm home awaits them.
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BEIJING - Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing described Thursday 29 people believed to be defectors from North Korea as being relaxed a day after they entered the Japanese school in the Chinese capital to seek asylum.
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A sweeping overhaul of U.S.   immigration law cleared a test vote in the Senate on Wednesday,   setting the stage for passage this week and a bruising battle   with the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Forty-four North Korean refugees yesterday evaded Chinese guards and scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing, where they were being given temporary asylum last night.
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North Korea has urged the U.N. refugee agency and the Red Cross to help stop the exodus of its citizens to South Korea after the secret airlift of some 460 North Koreans to Seoul in July, a North Korean newspaper said.
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About 20 men, women and children claiming  to be North Koreans entered the South Korean consulate in  Beijing seeking asylum, South Korea's YTN television said on  Friday.
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Twenty-nine people believed to be North Koreans have entered a South Korean school in Beijing, apparently seeking asylum. Diplomats say the group, including two children, entered the school early Friday.
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Forty-four North Koreans who spent three months in the Canadian Embassy here in China&#39;s biggest known asylum bid to date have been allowed to leave the country, an embassy spokesman said Thursday.
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A total of 45 North Korean refugees tried to seek asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, with one person arrested by police and 44 others succeeding, paving the way for their deportation to South Korea.
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Beijing, December 17 KAZINFORM - Seven people claiming to be North Korean asylum seekers sought refuge at a Japanese school in Beijing in the wee hours of Friday morning by scaling a wall, according to the Japanese Embassy in the Chinese capital.
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Seoul has passed controversial new measures intended to slow the flow of asylum seekers.
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BEIJING -- Twenty-nine people believed to be North Korean entered the Japanese school in Beijing on Wednesday morning to seek asylum in a country other than China, according to Foreign Ministry officials in Tokyo.
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ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan exercised their right to vote in Afghanistanâs first presidential elections on Saturday under tight security.
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China has launched a genuine effort to arrest North Korean defectors and those who help North Korean escapees go to South Korea. According to a source in China on Wednesday, Chinese police raided Tuesday a
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BEIJING (CP) - Forty-four men, women and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy on Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum by North Koreans.