Myanmar authorities sentence 112 minority Rohingya Muslims, including a dozen children, to prison terms ranging between two and five years for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported on Tuesday.​​​​​​​

EU home affairs ministers are set to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the growing refugee crisis in the 27-nation bloc.

Humanitarian groups on Sunday said Italy had broken international law by refusing to let in migrants plucked from the sea.

The Russian military says its troops have hit Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region.

The mistreatment of refugees in the Netherlands has brought back the plight of asylum seekers across entire Europe in focus.

Fifty thousand Ukrainian refugees are facing homelessness in the UK.

The Dutch government's plan to house non-Ukrainian refugees on floating cruise ships sparks controversy.

Dozens of refugees live in appalling conditions on the streets of Belgium but none of them are from Ukraine. Rights groups say the EU's asylum policy is discriminatory.

Afghans have always chosen Iran as one of their main destinations and found sanctuary there.

The UN refugee chief censures as "all wrong" an imminent plan by the British government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.