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The U.N. General Assembly has endorsed a sweeping accord to ensure safe and orderly migration over opposition from five countries, including the United States and Hungary. The Global Compact for Migration is the first international document dealing with the issue, though

US presidents tend to receive their fair share of honours, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one. A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after him, apparently in response to his

Women were subjected to 1.1 million abusive or threatening messages on Twitter throughout last year, with black politicians and journalists receiving online abuse related to gender, race and sexuality much more often and at higher rates than their white counterparts, research

A total of 4,476 people lost their lives on migratory routes across the world in 2018, a U.N. agency said yesterday. In a report published on International Migrants Day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said hundreds of thousands of people,

Facebook has been giving the world’s leading tech companies more access to its users’ private data than it previously disclosed, a report said Wednesday. According to the report published in The New York Times, the social media giant had data-sharing partnership

In the midst of the biggest political crisis of his presidency, Emmanuel Macron is enlisting the help of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in a sign that the right-wing ex-leader’s influence on Macron is on the rise. In the space of

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel submitted his resignation Tuesday amid pressure on his government after the biggest party in his coalition quit over his support for a United Nations compact on international migration. “I am taking the decision to offer my

Turkey is home to migrants from 190 nations, said the director general of the Interior Ministry’s migration management department. On the occasion of International Migrant’s Day on Tuesday, Abdullah Ayaz told Anadolu Agency the country hosts 4.7 million migrants of which