McConnell: No government shutdown this week over immigration

WASHINGTON — Testing the resolve of Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Sunday there won’t be a government shutdown this week over the question of...

November unemployment rate lowest in nearly a decade: Statistics Canada

Canada’s unemployment rate dropped to its lowest point in nearly a decade in November, Statistics Canada’s new Labour Force Survey reports. Canada’s unemployment rate in November...

Nigeria pledges to help migrants returning from Libya abuses

WARRI, Nigeria — The governor of one state in southern Nigeria says he’s ready to help Nigerians returning from Libya where they were abused by human...

Net migration into UK down sharply in year since Brexit vote

LONDON — Britain has recorded the steepest fall in long-term net migration into the country since records began in 1964, dropping by a third in the...

Italian authorities investigating skinhead intimidation

MILAN — Italian authorities have identified four right-wing extremists who interrupted a meeting on housing migrants to read an anti-migrant manifesto as part of a skinhead group’s acts...

Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants in Libya: AU

ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire — Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants are living in camps in Libya, often under “inhuman” conditions, the chairman of the African Union Commission said...

Changes coming to Canada’s medical inadmissibility rules

Canada’s Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says current medical inadmissibility rules for newcomers are out of touch with Canadian values and need to be reformed. Hussen appeared...

Immigration qualification based on ‘excessive demand’ must change: minister

A section of Canada’s immigration law barring anyone from settling in the country if they have a condition deemed a burden on medical or social services is outdated...

Only 10 per cent of Haitians crossing illegally getting refugee status, so far

OTTAWA — The majority of asylum seekers who have crossed illegally into Canada so far this year were Haitian and so far, only 10 per cent...

Celebrated Australians want services restored to refugees