On This Day: Plane crashes into Buffalo, N.Y.-area home, killing 50
On Feb. 12, 2009, a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people, ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
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Handcuffs and beach clean-ups: a Cuban migrant's seven months in Guantanamo Bay
Yeilis Torres, a 38-year-old Cuban woman, knows all too well the loneliness and anguish facing the migrants flown by the ...
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UNHCR’s Grandi calls for global action to support Syrians returning home
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...
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Trump administration begins first detention flights to Guantanamo Bay
The Trump administration on Tuesday sent the first flight of detained migrants on military aircraft from the United States to ...