Authorities rescue 43 migrants found packed into a van in Bulgaria
The rescue came just days after 18 people who were crammed into a lumber truck, "pressed against each other like in a tin can," were found dead.
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The rescue came just days after 18 people who were crammed into a lumber truck, "pressed against each other like in a tin can," were found dead.
Two of the activists on trial in Greece, including Sarah Mardini, who along with her sister inspired the Netflix movie, spent more than three months in jail.
In 1999 Ayda Zugay was an 11-year-old refugee fleeing the former Yugoslavia with her older sister when a stranger handed them an envelope on a flight to the United States. Inside they found a $100 bill. It was a gift the sisters have never forgotten. And now, after more than two decades, they found the woman who helped them, and met again in person for the first time since that flight. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports.
A D.C. appeals court declined to delay the end of the Title 42 border policy, which will end on Dec. 21 if the Supreme Court does not step in. Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, discusses how his organization helps migrants as they cross into the U.S.
"I feel it is time for me to work differently, engaging directly with refugees and local organizations," Jolie said.
The small boat was apparently full of migrants trying to make the well-trodden, but extremely risky English Channel crossing from mainland Europe to Britain.
Officials say the spartan facility on an island will offer men sent up from border states a "loving and caring" waystation to plot their next moves.
The EU's border agency said it had assisted Greek authorities in providing immediate aid to the migrants, who were mainly from Afghanistan and Syria.
The Biden administration fell far short of accomplishing the same objective in 2022, resettling fewer than 20,000 refugees.
Wafaa Ali Abbas was just 9 years old when ISIS militants stormed her village and sold her into nearly a decade of abuse and captivity.
Under Operation Allies Welcome, which will end next month, the U.S. has resettled roughly 86,000 Afghans who escaped Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
For the 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled a campaign of "genocide" in Myanmar, life in the world's biggest refugee camp is getting "worse, not better."
Thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan are now on U.S. soil following one of the largest military airlifts in U.S. history. CBS News national security and justice reporter Nicole Sganga joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on the vetting process they face before resettlement, and an update on the death of a 9-month-old child en route to the U.S.
The Biden administration has fulfilled its pledge to take in 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. But that's just a small fraction of the millions of people forced from their homes since the war began. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya Galvez joined Debra Alfarone and Errol Barnett to discuss.
A family torn apart by war is reunited at a Bay Area airport after a global trek and an extended period of detention. Anna Werner has more.
Originally refused a visa, a teenager from Odesa gained entry to the U.S. through the southern border, where he was detained in a shelter: "It was, like, in a jail … but for kids."
Some Afghans who helped the U.S. say they've been trapped for months at an isolated U.S. military base with no end in sight.
CBS News meets a family dodging heat, downpours and the Taliban in a makeshift shelter in Islamabad, and blaming the "poorly executed American withdrawal" from Afghanistan.
The U.S. last year resettled tens of thousands of Afghans following the Taliban takeover. But it left behind many at-risk Afghans, including family members of U.S. military translators.
The U.K. plans to deport asylum seekers who enter the country using "irregular" routes, such as on small boats or in the backs of trucks, to Rwanda.
One of the U.K.'s most senior religious leaders has called the program, which is still under legal review, an "immoral policy that shames Britain."
U.S. citizens or groups can now file applications to show they can financially support displaced Ukrainians seeking to come to the U.S.
Women and children account for 90% of those who escaped, with men aged 18 to 60 eligible for military call-up and unable to leave.
An estimated 200,000 people left Russia during the first 10 days of the war, and some now lament their friends back home accepting Putin's narrative.
"In my 31 years as a humanitarian, I have rarely seen so much damage caused in so little time," UNICEF emergency director Manuel Fontaine said.