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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The US Senate on Monday set its sights on passing a bill granting legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants, despite claims by opponents that the move is tantamount to a mass amnesty.
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North Korea&#39;s Parliament head Kim Yong Nam, right, inspects a guard of honor with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People&#39;s Congress, during a welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004.
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Chinese parents pick up their children at the gate of the Korean School in Beijing Friday Oct. 22, 2004. As many as 29 North Korean asylum seekers entered the school earlier Friday, and told school authorities
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Fourty-four suspected North Koreans have entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in an apparent bid to win political asylum. A Canadian embassy spokesman says the men, women and children scaled the wall around the embassy compound Wednesday.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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President George W. Bush signed a law to promote human rights in nuclear-armed North Korea and provide humanitarian aid to citizens and refugees of the Stalinist state, as well as making them eligible for asylum in the United States.
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Beijing - A group of North Korean men, women and children seeking asylum helped each another climb a wall into the South Korean consulate grounds in Beijing on Monday, but most were caught by Chinese guards or fled.
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BEIJING -- Forty-three men, women, and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy in China's capital yesterday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum by North Koreans. One other man was stopped by police.
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Many North Korean refugees who escape to South Korea were repeatedly tortured in their homeland and need special help to adjust to their new country, a United Nations rights envoy said Thursday.
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BEIJING : Forty-four North Korean men, women and children scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing in a likely bid for political asylum, an embassy spokesman said.
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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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Afghan refugees living in Pakistan are registering to take part in next week's landmark presidential elections.
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A group of 29 North Koreans fled into a South Korean school in Beijing yesterday to seek asylum, exactly one week after an earlier group defected under similar circumstances.
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A group of 12 North Korean refugees have arrived in the United States to seek asylum, a South Korean activist said Thursday &#151; the largest group from the communist nation to have recently defected there.
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Twenty North Korean defectors climbed a fence to enter the South Korean Consulate in Beijing in search of asylum early Friday morning.
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A group of 29 North Koreans, including two children, sought asylum Friday morning in a South Korean school in Beijing, South Korea&#39;s Yonhap News reported.