(VOVworld) – Austria is drafting a law aiming to effectively push the local communities to host refugees, Chancellor Werner Faymann said Friday
(VOVworld) – At least 10 migrants died on Thursday when their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian Coast Guard said, while some 500 were rescued in...
(VOVworld) - The European Union will help Hungary and the western Balkan countries struggling with an influx of migrants
(VOVworld) - France on Friday rejected a request for asylum by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for the reason that Assange does not present any immediate danger
(VOVworld) - EU leaders have agreed at a summit in Brussels to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece
(VOVworld) – The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday that EU member countries have a long way to go to agree on the number of asylum seekers that...
(VOVworld) – Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Wednesday that the Indonesian government could not provide shelters for more Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar
(VOVworld)- The European Commission (EC) is ready to discuss new ways to receive and distribute asylum seekers in the EU
(VOVworld) – The EU has asked its member states to receive 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea landing in Italy and Greece, which have been overstretched by an influx...
(VOVworld) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has blamed European countries for backtracking on their commitments to accept asylum seekers
(VOVworld) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to be wary of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement and open their hearts to asylum seekers in Germany in a national speech...
(VOVworld) – US citizen Miller Matthew Todd, detained in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for committing “anti-DPRK acts”
(VOVworld) - Fighting in southeast Ukraine has driven over half a million people from their homes, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday
(VOVworld) – Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Russian President, on Thursday denied all reports that Russia is sending more troops to the Ukraine border
(VOVworld) – Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said he will not ask for political asylum in any country
(VOVworld) – Italian authorities said on Monday that the Italian navy has rescued more than 2,600 boat migrants attempting to land at night on Sicily’s southern coast
(VOVworld)- 2013 was a stormy year for the US- Russia relationship due to differences on key issues, even though, they took steps to broaden cooperation last year
(VOVworld) – Brazil has no plans to grant asylum to Edward Snowden even after the former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency offered to help investigate the US’s spying...
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa. Although it’s a symbolic gesture, can the cordial...
(VOVworld) - Edward Snowden tells the New York Times that he did not take any top secret documents to Russia when he fled to the country in June seeking asylum. Snowden...