These steps President Jimmy Carter took while in office are still shaping the United States more than four decades later. But ...

By WM Wickremesinghe Trincomalee Acting Magistrate Abdul Saleem has ordered that the 12-member crew of a boat that entered ...

Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a ...

At this Time of the Year, the “Season of Goodwill towards men”, please spare a thought for the plight of 103 ROHINGYA ...

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR is deeply alarmed by the ongoing situation in Mozambique, where post-election unrest has forced ...

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, from 1975 to 1995, between 200,000 and 600,000 Vietnamese boat ...

Sri Lanka's navy rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island ...

At the beginning of his presidency, in June 1977, Carter, the one-time peanut farmer from Georgia who campaigned on ...

On that night the boat, carrying between 700 and 800 refugees, most of them African, capsized as a civilian freighter approached. Only 28 souls were saved as people-traffickers locked most of the ...

“There’s a hole in the boat, lots of water and not everyone has life jackets.” This is one of hundreds of distress calls made ...

with coastguard patrol boats, naval helicopters and international freighters taking people on board. A video published by the Greek navy shows the nighttime operation. According to the UN refugee ...