Asylum seekers diverted from city
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Asylum seekers are being diverted from Swansea, in the wake of the alleged murder of an Iraqi Kurd in the city.
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October 23, 2004 ã¡ October 23, 2004 ã¡ BEIJING â In a bid for political asylum, a group of 29 North Korean defectors, including two children, sought refuge at a South Korean school here yesterday morning.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday that it is temporarily withdrawing some key international staff from strife-torn south Darfur in Sudan.
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Dispersal of asylum seekers to seven areas of England has been suspended this year amid fears of rising tensions.
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Thousands of Asian immigrants rushed to catch ferries and planes out of Malaysia Monday on the eve of a campaign to round up and deport illegal workers, the biggest such crackdown in three years.
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Norwegian flight in an unexplained assault that police say could be linked to his asylum status. flying seven passengers from Narvik to Bodoe in northern Norway.
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A large disturbance inside the UK's biggest immigration centre has been contained, the Home Office says.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce gunbattles erupted between security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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A refugee charity claims failed asylum seekers in Wales are being left destitute by Home Office rules.
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13 September 2004 -- Aid workers were leaving Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat today after bloody clashes in recent days sparked by the dismissal of a powerful local governor.
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ATHENS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Electra Floropoulou of the Lawyers Group for the  Rights of Refugees and Migrants was not expecting the police to  turn violent when she began taking photographs of the queue of  migrants outside the Athens Directorate for Foreigners.
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Two Pakistani asylum seekers who  sought sanctuary inside a Glasgow church are granted a short reprieve from deportation.
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Tens of thousands of East Timorese fled their burning capital or sought refuge in churches, embassies and the airport on Sunday as gangs terrorized neighborhoods virtually at will. The United Nations evacuated hundreds of employees.
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His flight to the Washington area yesterday was diverted to Bangor, Maine, where sources say he was questioned by the FBI and Immigration officials.
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Around 90,000 face being evacuated from the Bolivian city of Trinidad amid rising floodwaters.
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday it was temporarily withdrawing some international staff from South Darfur in western Sudan because authorities there had prevented the staff from performing their duties.