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Mahad Abdullahi Hassan had never heard of Nepal before the day he landed in it. When the 28-year-old Somali boarded a flight from Dubai to Kathmandu on May 23, 2007, he was hoping he would finally reach his dream destination: Sweden
For the fourth year in a row, Iraqis top a growing roster of people seeking asylum in an industrialized nation. They are just ahead of people fleeing wars in Afghanistan and Somalia, said a report published by the U.N
The harsh reality of life and death in Gaza is a common theme for Palestinian filmmakers. But it was the 2004 death of a young Palestinian woman — not at the hands of a militant attack or an Israeli incursion — that struck a note with two filmmakers.
A government airstrike misfired on a refugee camp in Yemen killed dozens of civilians, officials from the government and humanitarian agencies said. Thursday’s strike was meant to target Shiite rebels, according to the government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity
The Canadian government hopes to overturn a decision granting refugee status to a white South African who says he would face persecution at home, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister said Friday.
Taliban militants attacked NATO supply terminals Wednesday morning, torching at least 10 supply trucks in northern Pakistan, local officials said. It was on August 11, 2006, just 13 days short of his twelfth birthday. “I went with my dad to take food for some people who were stuck in Smaiya,” he explains