Bitterly divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the worst migration crisis affecting the continent since World War Two, at an emergency summit next week.

Zoe Lawlor (Irish Examiner, November 13) fails to understand the risk in providing materials to rebuild Gaza.

Europe has utterly failed to grasp the gravity of the Syrian exodus, and Lebanon is paying the price, says Éamonn Meehan

President Barack Obama says a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria this week is a “big event of grave concern” that has sped up the timeframe for determining a US response.

Angelina Jolie was left in tears after visiting a Syrian refuge camp today.

Former UN peacekeeper Col Colm Doyle says investigative journalist Ed Vulliamy’s anger is palpable in his remarkable book on the Bosnian conflict

Angelina Jolie wrote a farewell letter for Brad Pitt after becoming a “target” on a UN mission.

A conflict she didn’t fully understand has inspired Angelina Jolie to get behind the camera for a love story set in Bosnia.Janine De Giovanni reports

THE United Nations says many Somali children are arriving at refugee camps in neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia in such weak shape that they are dying within 24 hours despite emergency care and feeding.

Angelina Jolie – who is currently on a visit to Pakistan where she is attempting to draw attention to the flood victims of the nation – has admitted she doesn’t have many people in her life she can confide in except her partner Brad Pitt and their six children.

PAKISTAN’S medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said yesterday as the country braced for the spread of disease.

Pakistan is bracing itself for countrywide outbreaks of disease after the weeks of flooding damaged hospitals and clinics and turned tens of thousands of medical workers into refugees.

Actress Angelina Jolie has quietly returned to Haiti for meetings with Haitian and UN officials.

Celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a surprise visit to Bosnia to highlight the plight of refugees still unable to return home 15 years after the war there ended.

Angelina Jolie has issued an emotive plea to the Thai government urging officials to free thousands of Burmese refugees who have been held in camps for up to 20 years.

IRELAND should keep its doors open to asylum seekers trying to escape the horrors of Iraq, Amnesty International has urged.

The journalist whose enslavement and escape from Cambodia’s murderous revolutionaries was the subject of the movie 'The Killing Fields' has died.

A second group of refugees from war-torn Burma have begun a new life in Co Mayo under a UN refugee resettlement programme.

FAMILIES from war-torn Burma were beginning a new life in Co Mayo yesterday under a special UN refugee resettlement programme.

Families from war-torn Burma were beginning a new life in Co Mayo today under a special UN refugee resettlement programme.

Angelina Jolie arrived in Hanoi today to complete the procedures necessary to take her adopted Vietnamese son to his new home in the United States.

Actress Angelina Jolie has picked up the three-year-old Vietnamese boy she plans to adopt, but faces a few last procedural hurdles before she can take him home to the United States.

Taking a break from shooting a film about the life of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, actress Angelina Jolie spent the weekend in the Indian capital playing another role – goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The annual Department of Foreign Affairs NGO forum on human rights is taking place in Croke Park today.

THE Garda Siochána deserve enormous credit for the professional way in which they brought the occupation of St Patrick’s Cathedral to a satisfactory conclusion on Saturday night.

EGYPTIAN police turned water cannons on Sudanese war refugees and beat them with sticks yesterday, brutally clearing out a squatters camp in a city park. At least 10 people were killed, the government said.

FOLLOWING the military coup d’etat ousting the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973, some 25,000 were forced to flee the country.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have banned the international media from attending press conferences during their promotional trip to Japan in a bid to dodge questions about their relationship.

DISGRACED Olympic swimmer Michelle Smith is in the running for the accolade of Ireland’s greatest woman after being nominated in a radio competition, it emerged yesterday.

Angelina Jolie, on a goodwill visit to Sierra Leone, said she was overwhelmed by the “strength and spirit” of a nation struggling to recover from a decade of brutal conflict.

Ireland has fallen well down the table of industrialised countries receiving applications from asylum seekers, according to figures published today by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

WAILING relatives scrambled over hundreds of bodies piled in a Sri Lankan hospital yesterday, searching for loved ones as the tsunami death toll soared above 12,000 on the island.

FOUR Khmer Rouge families have emerged from remote Cambodian jungles 25 years after fleeing the Vietnamese invasion which toppled the Pol Pot regime.

Hijackers forced a plane carrying about 70 Eritreans from Libya to land in the Sudanese capital today before surrendering to security forces, according to a UN refugee agency official.

THERE has been a significant rise in the number of deportations carried out so far this year compared with last year, according to new statistics.

The UN refugee agency began pulling foreign staff out of large swathes of southern and eastern Afghanistan today in the wake of the killing of a French worker, a decision that could affect tens of thousands of Afghan returnees.

SWITZERLAND’S ultra-right People’s party (SVP) has rocked the country’s political system after emerging as the clear winner of Sunday’s general election.

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to set up camps in Africa and other non-EU countries for asylum seekers was withdrawn from the agenda at the EU summit in Greece last night amid fears it could be illegal.

SUPPORT is mounting for a British proposal to set up refugee camps outside European Union borders to process asylum seekers before they are allowed to enter.

WAR with Iraq, with biological or chemical agents possibly unleashed, will be a human calamity, the UN refugee chief has warned — exactly a month before a final arms inspectors’ report might trigger a conflict.

Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft arrives by helicopter in a desolate landscape. Derelict, bombed-out buildings stand in areas cordoned off by red and white tape warning you not to stray from the path. Elsewhere, skull and crossbone signs mark danger zones and every now and again you hear what seems to be the sound of a bomb going off.

Police have opened fire on protesters outside a UN refugee camp in northern Kenya, killing three people.

The families of murdered Northern Ireland human rights lawyers Rosemary Nelson and Pat Finucane today attacked proposals to appoint an international judge to investigate the killings.

Forty-four survivors were recovering in an Indonesian refugee camp today after their boat sank off Java island, drowning several hundred people.