Antony Vo was charged as a nonviolent participant in the Jan. 6 riot but fled to Canada before his prison sentence while he awaits a pardon from the president-elect.
Carlos Serrano-Restrepo, an immigrant living in Ohio, argued his collection of 170 firearms was for self-defense and protected by the Second Amendment.
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled that Australia's detention of asylum seekers on the nation's Manus Island is unconstitutional. Australia has a policy of refusing entry to asylum seekers and it pays Papua New Guinea and Nauru to host these refugees in detention camps.
Swiss officials are reviewing information and legal framework to determine the immigration status of a Syrian family, after the family’s two boys stated that they have been refusing to shake their female teachers’ hands because it’s against their faith. The case has sparked a widespread debate as the officials are still in process to make a decision.
Amid protests from Amnesty International and human rights group, deportation of the Syrian refugees seeking asylum from Russia was halted. The reprieve has been issued after the European Court of Human Rights issued an emergency ban.
The highest official in the island country of Nauru has declared that the controversial alleged rape victim was not raped, with officials saying that the child only had "skin-to-skin" contact with another child that was in the detention center.
Germany is introducing measures to tackle its refugee crisis earlier than previously expected, a top government official said on Friday, allowing accelerated deportation procedures to begin as early as next week.
A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others, all with immigrant backgrounds, was driven by racist motives, Swedish police said on Friday, fuelling concerns that refugee numbers were polarizing public opinion in the country.
More than a million refugees will come to Germany this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Sunday, as a poll showed almost half of Germans believe she is handling the influx of asylum seekers badly.
Japan, which accepted just 11 asylum seekers out of 5,000 applications last year, will provide about $810 million in aid in response to refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq, public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday.
Hungary's parliament authorized the government on Monday to deploy the army to help handle a wave of migrants, granting the military the right to use non-lethal force.
As the worst refugee crisis since World War Two forces Europe to break down hurdles and accept hundreds of thousands of migrants, Japan, which took in just 11 asylum seekers last year, is looking to clamp down even further.
At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year and next, the United Nations said on Tuesday, giving estimates that already look conservative.
Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday and move step by step "towards normality".
Dozens of protesters shouted at Chancellor Angela Merkel and waved placards with the slogan "traitor" on Wednesday when she visited an eastern German town where anti-refugee protests erupted into violence at the weekend.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Cuba on Friday to raise the U.S. flag at the recently restored American embassy in Havana, another symbolic step in the thawing of relations between the two Cold War-era foes.
A surge in migrants from Africa threatens the European Union's living standards and social infrastructure, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, saying the bloc was unable to take in millions of people seeking a new life.
Italy stepped up calls for a change to European asylum rules on Sunday as neighboring states tightened border controls, turning back African migrants and leaving hundreds stranded at the frontier in northern Italy.
Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.
