ZURICH (Reuters) - A million people have fled Ukraine in a week after Russia invaded the country, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Twitter. "In just…
KABUL (Reuters) -Two detained journalists in Afghanistan who had been working with the United Nations were released on Friday along with several Afghan workers, the U.N. refugee agency said. Earlier…
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said the United Nations human rights chief is welcome to visit Xinjiang but not for the purpose of an investigation, when asked about a…
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece, since their evacuation from…
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian…
By Paul Carrel GENEVA (Reuters) - Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them with little if any food, clean water or shelter,…
By Francesco Guarascio and Panu Wongcha-um BRUSSELS/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of millions of migrants may be denied COVID-19 vaccines from a global programme because some major manufacturers are worried about…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive said on Thursday there could be no negotiation with Belarus over the plight of migrants at its border with Poland and Baltic states,…
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Sudan on Friday at the request of Britain and other countries following last week's military…
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR started to airlift supplies to Kabul on Tuesday to help hundreds of thousands of displaced Afghans build shelters ahead of the winter.…
By Joanna Plucinska and Kacper Pempel Near SIEMIANOWKA, Poland (Reuters) - Somali migrant Abdi Fitah's bid to cross into Poland from Belarus ended with him barefoot and freezing after he…
By Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul (Reuters) -A deal for the United Nations to start work on a remote Bangladeshi island where the government has sent thousands of Rohingya refugees…