UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

27 -- Fifty lunatics, perhaps more, were burned to death this morning in a fire that destroyed five wooden buildings of the Colney Hatch Insane Asylum ... for 2,545 patients, but in reality ...

Washington — Citing President Trump's extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country ...

Norovirus levels in hospitals in England are 80% higher than the same period last year, new figures show today as pressure on NHS services remains high. New data published today shows that 784 ...

The Trump administration has essentially eliminated the ability to pursue asylum at the border, attempting to erase by executive order a right established in U.S. and international law. The ...

New guidelines are in place for Alberta doctors who, for safety reasons, decide to reduce the number of patients on their roster. Acknowledging the province's health-care system is under strain ...

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A boy, aged two, and a man, 41, have been stabbed to death in a horror attack in Germany after a suspected asylum seeker armed with a knife ambushed a nursery group. The child, who was ...

A late-morning fire on Main Street (CR 132) in the hamlet of Willard in the Town of Romulus prompted a significant response from local emergency services on Monday. The fire began around 10:45 a.m. at ...

The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous ...

Photographer Jon Crispin has been photographing at the Willard Asylum (later the Willard Psychiatric ... look at the institutional lives of patients with mental illness. Learn more about Crispin ...

President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access to asylum, according to a ...