In Pics | Sweden celebrates its 500th anniversary

Canada's largest strike by federal workers is nearing its third week. But there seems to be no end in sight. The strike has particularly impacted people who want to emigrate to Canada for work. Employers continue to be anxious that a slower immigration process may lead to a major labour crunch.

Canada strikes leave immigrants in limbo

The death toll rose to at least 63 in the migrant tragedy off Italy's southern coast after rescue crews recovered several more bodies Monday, driving home once again the desperate and dangerous boat crossings of people seeking to reach Europe.

Italy Boat Tragedy: 63 bodies found, 36 still missing

The Joe Biden administration on Monday released data that shows the number of migrant arrests along the US-Mexico border had crossed the two million mark in the first 11 months of the 2022 fiscal year that ends on September 30.

US arrests over 2 million migrants along the Mexico border, breaking previous record

Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, marking a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants. If the revision takes effect, such workers — many from Vietnam and China — would be allowed to renew their visas indefinitely and bring their families with them.

Japan looks  to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs

One of the busiest and major airports in Spain was shut down for nearly four hours after 21 passengers fled a plane that had made an emergency landing due to a medical emergency.

12 ‘illegal immigrants’ arrested for fleeing plane that made emergency landing in Spain airport

The US special envoy for Haiti has resigned after social media platforms were filled with Haitian migrants being treated inhumanely. Calling it a 'collapsed state', the senior diplomat Daniel Foote resigned as a sign of protest against the deportation of Haitian migrants.

Haiti US special envoy, Daniel Foote, resigns to protest 'inhumane' deportation of migrants

US border troops beat up migrants with whips near the Texas border. The pictures surfaced days before Biden's human rights pitch at the UNGA. Who will stand up to America's rights abuses? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas US Edition: US border patrol whips helpless migrants

Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been criticised by fellow EU members for policies they say are hostile to LGBTQ people and immigrants. He has also faced international condemnation for cracking down on the press and judiciary.

Orban tightens grip over Hungary, introduces policies hostile to LGBTQ people

Migrants in Mexico set out to US defying immigration rules and challenging detentions. US-Mexico border is facing its worst migrant crisis.

US-Mexico border faces its worst migrant crisis

To most eyes, the scruffy, sun-faded ship that left Venice for Sicily last week might have looked like a junkyard-ready wreck. Instead, as the ship embarked upon what might have been its final voyage, via barge and tugboat, and arrived in Sicily on Tuesday, others were hoping it would become a monument to the devastating toll exacted by the trafficking of people across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe by unscrupulous operators.

After a tragedy at sea, a wrecked ship becomes a powerful symbol in Italy

The US immigration enforcement agencies have been directed by the Biden administration on Monday to stop referring to migrants as “aliens,” a dated term that many people consider offensive.

Call them non-citizens, not illegal aliens: Biden chucks migrant naming norms

According to a top US border official, more than a million migrants are set to arrive at the US-Mexico border this year. The constant influx of migrants on the Southwest border is posing a growing humanitarian challenge for US President Joe Biden.

US witnesses constant influx of migrants at Mexico border

Biden is already struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals. Shocking pictures have now emerged from detention centres that show adults and children huddled together in makeshift rooms and separated by plastic sheets.

Lack of sanitation and social distancing: How immigrants in America are struggling

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed two bills that would establish paths to citizenship or legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

US lower house passes two bills to protect migrants

A Malaysian court ordered a temporary halt to a controversial plan to deport 1,200 Myanmar detainees to their homeland Tuesday weeks after a coup, following a last-ditch legal challenge.

Malaysian court halts Myanmar deportation after outcry

Democrats introduced a bill based on the Biden administration’s immigration priorities that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, officials will begin processing Central American asylum-seekers who were turned back and forced to remain in Mexico under a controversial Trump-era policy that has been revoked.

Biden administration’s immigration policy and recent attacks on the Asian-American communities

Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of migrants headed for the United States on foot, and soldiers beat back a group that tried to push through barriers, AFP journalists witnessed.

Guatemala police fire tear gas at US-bound migrant caravan

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump will soon be gone from the White House. But in the millions of homes where Latino immigrants live, the questions that have dominated the past four years will not soon go away: Will I ever see my mother again?

OPINION | What the future holds for undocumented immigrants

Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has announced that the country will be extending visas and residency permits for the migrant workers whose documents have expired.

Saudi Arabia to extend visas and permits for Bangladeshi workers: Reports

Germany wants to take in about 1,500 migrants stranded on Greek islands after a fire destroyed an overcrowded camp, government sources said on Tuesday, in a gesture of solidarity with its fellow European Union member state.

Germany to take in about 1,500 migrants from Greek islands

Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos were camping on roadsides on Thursday after the country's largest camp burnt down, with officials racing to find them shelter and avert a health crisis.

Greece races to shelter thousands after Lesbos migrant camp fire

Malaysian government is deporting an immigrant from Bangladesh who was last spotted in a documentary that highlighted the ill treatment of undocumented foreign workers in Malaysia.

Malaysia to deport Bangladeshi worker who participated in anti-government documentary

A statue of US first lady Melania Trump near her hometown in Slovenia was set on fire the night of July 4, according to the artist who commissioned the piece. The wooden sculpture was taken down the day after it was set on fire.

Statue of US first Lady Melania Trump set on fire near her hometown in Slovenia

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