People burned out of their homes by the hundreds. Villages, even refugee camps, raked with gunfire. Men, women and children beaten and set ablaze by angry mobs. India, the world’s most populous country and home to the fastest-growing major economy, is now also the site of a war zone, as weeks of ethnic violence in […]
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Ukraine Flood Deepens Misery in War Zone
Oleksiy Kolesnik waded ashore and stood, trembling, on dry land for the first time in hours, rescued on Wednesday morning after spending the predawn sitting on top of a cabinet in his flooded living room. “The water came really quickly,” said Mr. Kolesnik, who was so weak he had to be helped out of a […]
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Destroyed Dam Sends Ukrainians Fleeing for Shelter
The early morning explosion that woke Oksana Alfiorova from her sleep seemed normal enough, at least for wartime Kherson. Ms. Alfiorova, who is 57, lived through nine months of Russian occupation — “really scary” — and since then, nearly as long under the constant shelling of the Russian forces that set up camp across the […]
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As Assad’s Isolation Lifts, Syrian Refugees Fear Pressure to Return Home
Early one recent morning, Lebanese soldiers swept through the Bourj Hammoud neighborhood in Beirut, emptying two buildings of the Syrian refugees living in them. They forced them into trucks and drove them to a no-man’s land between the Lebanese and Syrian borders. After days stuck along the border, hundreds of refugees were taken by Syrian […]
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Meet the New Mayor: How a Refugee Won Over a Conservative German Town
The beer was flowing, the bratwurst were sizzling and the brass band at the village May Day festival led the crowd in ever tipsier renditions of the local drinking song. Clinking glasses all around was Ryyan Alshebl, a lanky, bearded 29-year-old from Syria. Eight years ago, Mr. Alshebl was part of the historic influx of […]
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New York City Asks for Relief From Its Right-to-Shelter Mandate
Mayor Eric Adams asked a judge for permission on Tuesday to relieve New York City of its unique and longstanding obligation to provide shelter for anyone who asks, asserting that the overwhelming influx of asylum seekers has overwhelmed its ability to accommodate all those in need. “Given that we’re unable to provide care for an […]
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The Battle for Bakhmut, in Photos
Even for those who witnessed the battle for Bakhmut, the longest and likely the deadliest clash of the war in Ukraine, words often failed. Soldiers who fought in the shell-racked city strained to articulate the carnage. The reek of the trenches around the city and the unceasing howl of shellfire, they said, recalled the Battle […]
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Before Greek Vote, Leader Says Blocking Migrants Built ‘Good Will’ With Europe
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece has been accused of illegally pushing asylum seekers back at sea. He has acknowledged that the state’s intelligence service wiretapped an opposition leader. He has consolidated media control as press freedom in Greece has dropped to the lowest in Europe. It is the sort of thing that the guardians […]
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Mayor Adams Improvises His Way Through an Impossible Crisis
Writing earlier this week in City Journal, the urban-policy magazine of the conservative Manhattan Institute, Nicole Gelinas faulted the mayor for spending so much time converting hotels into shelters for the displaced, arguing that the reopening of the Roosevelt Hotel, after a long closure, should have been “a symbol of New York’s post-pandemic resurgence” but […]
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Video Shows Greece Abandoning Migrants at Sea
The Greek government did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But campaigning on Lesbos last week ahead of general elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s “tough but fair” migration policies and boasted of a 90 percent drop in the arrival of “illegal migrants.” The government has consistently denied mistreating asylum […]
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Sudan’s War Could Go in Many Directions. We Look at Some Scenarios.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The fighting that erupted in Sudan’s capital one month ago surprised few, the culmination of soaring tensions between rival military leaders. But what has shocked many is the scale and ferocity of the war engulfing Africa’s third-largest country, a conflict that has killed about 1,000 people and prompted one million more to flee their […]
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Fleeing Generals at War and Violent Militias, Many Say ‘We’re Not Coming Back’
Thousands of Sudanese refugees watched as the first emergency aid workers reached a village in Chad, days after escaping from their embattled country. Mothers tended to toddlers, while men listed their most urgent needs — water, vaccines, tarps for the looming rainy season. The fighting that erupted in Sudan’s capital last month has ricocheted far beyond the […]
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After Biden Predicted Chaos at the Border, a Quieter Than Expected Weekend
Two days before officials lifted the Title 42 pandemic restrictions at the southern border, President Biden gave a blunt assessment of his administration’s ability to manage the surge of migrants they expected to arrive last week. “It’s going to be chaotic for a while,” Mr. Biden predicted grimly. When the time came, what Republicans had […]
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Title 42 Is Gone But What Happens to Migrants Heading to the U.S.?
Relative quiet has prevailed along the southern U.S. border since Friday, despite widespread fears that ending a pandemic-era policy to immediately expel most migrants, even asylum seekers, would set off a stampede from Mexico. A surge in migrants did in fact happen, in the run-up to the expiration of the pandemic-era expulsion policy, known as […]
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Cyclone Mocha Moves Toward Myanmar and Bangladesh
A storm forecast to be the strongest to hit Myanmar in more than a decade is expected to make landfall near the Bangladesh border on Sunday, raising the prospect of a major humanitarian disaster. The storm, Cyclone Mocha, formed over the southern Bay of Bengal on Thursday and has been drenching western Myanmar as it […]
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Asylum Debate Snarls Efforts to Forge an Immigration Deal in Congress
A crush of asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border is complicating an already intractable immigration debate on Capitol Hill, pulling the two parties further apart and threatening to undermine what some lawmakers have viewed as the best hope in a decade for Congress to forge a comprehensive immigration deal. For decades, bipartisan discussions on such […]
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After Title 42 Expires, U.S. Border Sees Crowds, but Not Chaos
The southern border of the United States was crowded with migrants on Friday, but not chaotic, following the lifting of Title 42 pandemic-era restrictions. Yet Biden administration officials lashed out at court challenges from the right and left that they said could undermine efforts to deal with record levels of border crossings in the days […]
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Migrants Struggle to Get Appointments on CBP One, Border Patrol’s App
“We can’t enter, we don’t understand the new system,” complained Wendy Perez Peña, 31, who left Venezuela in March to escape poverty. Jeison Rodriguez Jesus Salas, 27, shook his head in frustration. “They haven’t updated it well, they should have updated it better,” he said. Out of the group of 11, not one had been […]
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¿Qué impulsa las cifras récord de migración a la frontera de EE. UU.?
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, México— Millones de personas de toda América Latina están abandonando sus hogares en cifras que no se han visto en décadas, y muchas de ellas se dirigen a Estados Unidos. Si bien la migración a la frontera sur de Estados Unidos siempre ha fluctuado, la pandemia y la posterior recesión golpearon a América […]
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What’s Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border?
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Millions of people are leaving their homes across Latin America in numbers not seen in decades, many of them pressing toward the United States. While migration to the U.S. southern border has always fluctuated, the pandemic and the recession that followed hit Latin America harder than almost anywhere else in the […]
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U.S. Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’
A day before a pandemic-era rule that was used to swiftly expel migrants at the southern border is set to expire, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, warned migrants on Wednesday against crossing illegally into the United States. “Our border is not open,” Mr. Mayorkas said, adding that those who enter illegally will now […]
Read MoreMigrant Crossing Surges Aren’t New. Why Is the Border Overwhelmed?
President Biden’s tenure has coincided with a global rise in migration, and the pressure has been felt acutely at the United States’ southern border. Officials caught migrants crossing the border without authorization more than five million times from February 2021 to March this year, according to the most recent data available — the highest number […]
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Chicago Already Feels Strains of a Migrant Influx as Title 42 Ends
CHICAGO — Bulging suitcases lined the wall of windows facing the street at a North Side police station in Chicago one morning this week. Air mattresses, blankets and pillows covered the shiny lobby floor. And more than 40 women, men and children were crowded together wherever they could find space — sleeping, chatting in Spanish […]
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Racetracks, Parks, Offices: A Frantic Search for Migrant Housing
When the real estate industry looks at the Flatiron Building, they see an internationally famous 22-story skyscraper that has sat mostly empty for four years, its value dropping in the pandemic-driven collapse of the commercial office market. New York City officials, however, see something else: a potential home for the continuing influx of migrants. And […]
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Confusion in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Region as Russia Issues Evacuation Order
KYIV, Ukraine — People living in Russian-occupied areas of southern Ukraine described in recent days an atmosphere of confusion, defiance and scarcity, as the occupation authorities ordered tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate in the face of a looming Ukrainian offensive. The New York Times communicated with more than a dozen people in occupied […]
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Title 42 Is Ending. Here’s What It Means for Immigration.
Every day, thousands of migrants cross the southern border of the United States illegally. Fleeing violence, authoritarian states and extreme poverty, they brave the dangerous journey in the hope that once they cross into the United States, they can stay. Over the past few years, illegal border crossings have been historically high — part of […]
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‘Catastrophic’ Congo Flooding Kills More Than 400 People
The death toll of last week’s deadly floods and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo climbed to more than 400 people, the government said on Monday, as rescue workers and family members searched through debris and mud for victims and survivors of the disaster. The flooding began on Thursday, as heavy rains pushed rivers […]
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A Refugee From Another Time Gets an Eviction Notice
The hotel’s owners set aside their conversion plans and, in mid-September, agreed to allow the city to rent half the building, including 300 rooms, for use as an intake center and refuge for asylum seekers. It wasn’t enough. In mid-December, the city signed a new contract to take effective control of the entire hotel, including […]
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Suburbs Are Furious at Adams’s Plan to Send Migrants to Their Hotels
With New York City struggling to cope with a continuing influx of migrants seeking asylum, Mayor Eric Adams on Friday announced a new strategy: The city would begin paying for shelter at two suburban locations outside the five boroughs. It took less than a day for the plan to hit a wall. Officials in one […]
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Ukrainians Return Home, Renewed and Resigned
A new sound wafts through the open windows at night in this town near the front line: children hollering at each other down the block, even long after dark. The markets are full. Sales are surging at the local bike shop. Red tulips, planted by hand, are bursting open everywhere. It is remarkable — “Unrecognizable,” […]
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Migrant Child Labor Debate in Congress Becomes Mired in Immigration Fight
Weeks after revelations that migrant children are being regularly exploited for cheap labor in the United States prompted bipartisan outrage and calls to action on Capitol Hill, Congress has moved no closer to addressing the issue, which has become mired in a long-running partisan war over immigration policy. Legislation to crack down on companies’ use […]
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