Refugees

"We failed them. And for that we are sorry," the Canadian prime minister said.

Most of the museum's exhibits were removed and kept in secret locations for their protection.

Although figures are difficult to calculate amid the fog of Syria's war, refugees and displaced persons are rebuilding cities ravaged by conflict.

The Trump administration allowed just 20 Syrian Christian refugees into the United States in the 2018 fiscal year despite campaign promises to make the U.S. a refuge for Christians.

"His statements on social media shamed Malaysia," the country's immigration chief Mustafar Ali said. "[He] was arrested yesterday because he was in a restricted area without a boarding pass."

"I know that the regime cannot be trusted," Jude Ash, a Syrian activist who is now an asylum applicant in the U.S., told Newsweek. "Any attempt by the regime to facilitate any transition or resolution, the main problem there is trust," he explained.

"U.S. sanctions are useless, they are also an award for revolutionaries, because they show that we are courageous, that we are on the right path, that we have not been led astray," Maduro said.

Pence issued a strong warning to Venezuela on Tuesday after it stationed troops along the border of Colombia in a move seen as highly provocative by Bogotá and Washington.

"The Sahara border can't be bigger than our border with Mexico," the president said, according to Spain's foreign minister.

The Trump administration has announced plans to limit numbers to 30,000 next year.

"Ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan, himself a refugee from the Chinese repression of Tibet.

More than 17,000 migrants are stuck in limbo inside over-capacity camps on Greece's Mediterranean islands.

The Trump administration's policies now outrank political extremists, migration, climate change and even terrorism as a top fear in Germany's annual poll.

Many Venezuelans have complained that it has become increasingly difficult to obtain passports and official documents, such as marriage and birth certificates, as their country sinks further into an economic crisis.

Some with the far-right chanted: "Merkel must go" and "We are the people," while waving German flags.

The White House wants Palestinian demands to return to their ancestral lands in Israel "taken off the table."

In one brothel in the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, 58 of the 60 women were from neighboring Venezuela.

"You've no idea what it's like [in Venezuela]. Whole families eat from the trash."

Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia face a tough choice: be persecuted at home or become refugees abroad.

The International Organization for Migration has said that 1,504 people have died this year, with more than half of those deaths occurring since June 1. 

More than a million people have already fled the country amid a worsening economic crisis.

Germany's new migration deal is the latest twist in a tricky 12 months for one of the world's great political survivors.

Two weeks after the interior minister broke ranks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel struck a deal on immigration.

Often the only difference between wealthy immigrants and refugees is their bank balance.

President Nicolas Maduro said the army arrested a "great number of mafiosi, wholesalers, thieves and capitalists."

Proposed bill would make it illegal for individuals or organizations to provide any help to undocumented immigrants.

"Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!" the president wrote on Twitter.

Netanyahu accused Iran of bringing some 80,000 Shiite fighters to Syria, from countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, to "convert" Sunni Muslims in Syria and launch attacks against Israel.

1,763 people drowned attempting to immigrate to Europe through the Mediterranean in 2017.

Officials in Hungary said they're aiming to pass the bill as soon as possible.