Refugees

"In my wildest dreams, I did not think I would be meeting him the next day," Mevan Babakar told Newsweek.

According to a new Gallup poll, 57 percent of Americans approve of taking in Central American refugees.

"Refugees who do come to the U.S. have got a big productive contribution to make," said International Rescue Committee President and CEO David Miliband.

"He has cut off his head. He has gone crazy," a young passenger who was on the vessel at the time of the attack told a Red Cross volunteer upon their rescue. The suspect was named as Oumar Diallo.

Kushner said, "the door is always open for the Palestinian leadership."

Matteo Salvini, the far-right interior minister of Italy, said the migrants and refugees aboard the Sea-Watch 3 ship should go to The Netherlands and Germany instead.

Myself and nine others of the crew of the Iuventa are being prosecuted by the Italian government for rescuing drowning men, women and children. There are hundreds like us.

Lena Headey immediately fell in love with the script for 'The Flood,' in which she plays a hardened immigration officer tasked with deciding on the high-profile case of an Eritrean asylum seeker.

From June 16 to June 23, Americans participating in the challenge will be living off "ration packs" of rice, lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans and canned sardines in support of refugees.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, works with Angelina Jolie's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.

"I cannot understand this way of thinking from White House advisor Jared Kushner," Sanders tweeted.

Matteo Salvini, Italy's far-right deputy prime minister, decried the "bestiality" of the arson suspect, a minor from Morocco, in incendiary Facebook posts.

The far-right minister in charge of asylum for Lower Austria said refugees would be required to sign the pledge along with their official asylum applications.

A child defecting from North Korea to meet her parents, who had already escaped Kim Jong Un's regime, was equipped with a GPS tracking device.

First daughter-in-law and 2020 Donald Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump said Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel allowing in refugees is one of "the worst things that has ever happened to Germany."

"Stripping these human rights protections from refugee claimants is callous, but doing so through an undemocratic process is even worse," said the litigation committee chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

After nearly 18 years of continuous war, formal peace is now on the agenda, but so is meltdown.

Moscow and Damascus blame Washington for "the suffering of Syrian citizens forcibly held in the Rukban refugee camp by U.S.-controlled armed groups."

The Libyan coastguard has enjoyed all kind of support from European governments in exchange for preventing refugees and migrants from reaching European shores - even if such cooperation results in torture.

The U.S. and Russia have accused one another of blocking critical assistance to the dying population of the Rukban refugee camp located in a Pentagon-controlled stretch of southern Syria.

"Any time a refugee or immigrant committed a gruesome crime in the United States, for example, Stephen Miller would come down to the [communications] office demanding a press release about it," wrote Cliff Sims.

I had a chance to witness the human stories behind this crisis first-hand. The U.S., governments across South America and international donors must step up to help.

World Health Organization dispels the falsehood that irregular migrants and refugees spread sickness among host communities in Europe.

"Congress declares that at this time there is no president of the republic," opposition legislator Jorge Milan said. "Let's start the process to recover the constitutional order."

"We are the ones now to keep the light shining; we are the ones to keep the hope alive," said Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. "In the hardest of years, it becomes all the more important."

With the world conceding that Bashar al-Assad has won the war in Syria, refugees in Turkey are trapped. If they return home, their lives are in danger. If they stay, they face uncertainty and destitution.

Hungary was the only other country to reject the adoption of the UN Global Compact on Refugees.

"I urge [Trump] to be mindful of this proposed policy's impacts on thousands of families," said Democratic Representative Stephanie Murphy, who came to the U.S. as a Vietnam refugee.

William Barr "was a strong advocate for a policy that set the stage for the treatment of Guantanamo detainees during the war on terror," ACLU Legal Director David Cole said.

"It's about practicing what we preach," participating Pastor Jessa van der Vaart said.