Asylum applications rise again
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Applications for asylum in the UK rose by 9% in the last three months, according to official figures.
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The global number of refugees rises for the first time in five years, mainly due to the Iraq war, the UN says.
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The US Labor Department said Thursday the number of workers filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits rose by 10,000 last week.
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The number of people seeking asylum in Britain has fallen to levels last seen when Prime Minister Tony Blair took office in 1997, the Observer on Sunday reported.
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South Africa investigates reports that 137 delegates to an Aids forum in Canada are seeking asylum.
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The number of failed asylum seekers removed from the UK rose by 16%, official figures say.
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The number of parents saying children have been unjustly taken for adoption is on the rise, campaigners claim.
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The government will again try to push through powers to detain mentally ill people who have not committed crimes.
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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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OTTAWA - Forty-four North Koreans who sought asylum at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in September have been taken to a safe third country, the Canadian government said.
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UN humanitarian agencies report thousands of people displaced for the second time in a month because of fresh outbreaks of fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The U.N. refugee agency appealed on Friday for $1.06 billion to provide food and shelter next year for millions of people uprooted by persecution and conflict.
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An American family with three small children has applied for political asylum in Finland, immigration officials said Friday.
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Illegal immigrants to the United States have been arriving in a Canadian border town looking for asylum.
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The United States has overtaken France as the country with the highest number of asylum applications, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Making it easier to deport immigrants seeking political asylum will get a vote in the House this week, a few days after a federal commission said that many of them already are being treated like criminals.