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November 1 is Pakistan’s deadline for all undocumented migrants to leave the country, or else authorities will forcibly deport them.

Former President Donald Trump is again promising to halt all refugee resettlement to the United States in response to the war in Israel.

A group of House Republicans is reminding President Joe Biden he does not have any authority under existing federal immigration law to bring Palestinians from Gaza to the United States via a parole pipeline.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a leading voice of the Democrat Party’s far-left wing, is suggesting Americans must be ready to bring Palestinians to their communities.

The Egyptian government agreed on Thursday to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid convoys, although Egypt still refuses to accept any Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday repeated that his government will accept no Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

A fast-growing coalition of Republican lawmakers is drawing a hard line over the war in Israel, declaring that they will oppose any attempts by President Joe Biden to resettle Palestinians across the United States.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has called on the U.S. to “welcome” Palestinian refugees as experts predict that one million people fleeing Gaza will need new homes. 

Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) are introducing legislation that would ban President Joe Biden’s administration from importing Palestinians to the United States to be resettled in American communities.

Palestinians are discovering that none of the Arab countries that claim to love them are willing to accept them as refugees.

Egypt, the other country besides Israel that borders Gaza, moved quickly this week to fortify its border and prevent a flood of Palestinians from entering Egyptian territory during Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas.

United Nations relief personnel arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday to discover that nearly all of the ethnic Armenian Christians who have lived in the region for centuries have fled, leaving only “ghost towns” for invading Muslim-majority Azerbaijan.

The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh announced its own dissolution on Thursday, ceding total control of the region to Azerbaijan after surrendering to a swift and overwhelming Azeri assault two weeks ago.

Suella Braverman called for reforms to international rules on asylum seekers, arguing they have become a promise the “West cannot fulfil”.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, used most of his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for boilerplate about sustainable development, rising levels of income inequality, and calls for other nations to resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war. 

UNICEF warns that violence against children has escalated to horrifying levels in the war-torn eastern provinces of the Congo.

A manhunt has been launched for a Russian in Germany after a 10-year-old boy was reportedly thrown from a bridge for speaking Ukrainian.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is hailing Joe Biden’s “historic” resettlement operation that brought more than 115,000 Afghans to the U.S.

South Korea’s Coast Guard confirmed this week that it had arrested a man from China attempting to enter the country on a jet ski. In remarks on Wednesday, a human rights campaigner confirmed that the man in question was anti-communist dissident Kwon Pyong, who served an 18-year prison sentence in 2017 for wearing an anti-Xi Jinping shirt.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that the situation in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” as food and medicine run out.

Maine’s Democrat governor just created an office to help import 75,000 poor migrants during the next ten years.

The White House has announced a new deal that gives Mexico even more power over the flow of wage-cutting economic migrants into jobs and communities throughout the United States.

Nearly half of Ukrainian refugees who fled to Germany say they intend to stay in the country “forever” or at least for a few years.

The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated on Wednesday that the number of people displaced by the vicious factional war in Sudan has exceeded 3 million, with some 2.4 of them displaced internally and 730,000 crossing into other countries to seek refuge.

Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition Indian National Congress (INC) party, announced on Tuesday that he will visit the conflict-torn state of Manipur on Thursday and Friday.

A Christian pastor declared that “God is queer” at the final service of the Protestant Church Congress in Germany on Sunday.

The British government has pledged an additional £150 million to help Ukrainian refugees find housing and work in the UK.

The upper house of Japan’s parliament, the Diet, dissolved into chaos on Thursday as furious left-wing lawmakers used physical violence in a last-ditch effort to block an immigration bill they opposed.

Three refugees from the Asian country of Myanmar are facing charges after they allegedly killed and ate a beloved swan in Manlius, New York.

A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany killed one person and injured 10 others early Sunday, according to local police.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition candidate seeking to dethrone President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a tense runoff election, which will conclude this weekend, went into the home stretch promising voters he will issue regulations to ease their credit card debts if he wins.

Internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Ethiopia’s Tigray region staged massive demonstrations on Tuesday to protest delays in returning to their homes, the continued presence of hostile tribal militia forces on their lands, and the suspension of humanitarian aid.

A senior official in the White House says President Joe Biden’s immigration policy is intended to fill new jobs in government spending programs, high-tech firms, and a growing economy.

A former Rwandan military policeman who entered France under a fake identity goes on trial charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.

The BBC reported “chaos” at Port Sudan, even hours after midnight on Sunday, as thousands of foreigners and Sudanese frantically tried to get out of the country before vicious warfare between rival junta factions resumed in earnest.