Those who successfully defect usually cross the border with China instead, with some then making their way to a third country before seeking asylum in South Korea. China and North Korea have ...

Somar is one of 2,680 Syrian refugees and asylum-seekers registered in Malaysia ... and even worked at a restaurant on the resort island of Langkawi for a few years before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

President-elect Donald Trump isn't the first to hold his Winter White House and conduct his transition on the island ... He ordered Pavlick into a mental hospital, where he stayed until 1966.

Still, he is close to the Senegalese community on the island, of which the vast majority arrive by flimsy ... where they could apply for asylum or other forms of protection. As a result, they remain ...