President Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenya native who once cared for his siblings, defied a deportation order in 2004 and became a political liability for her famous nephew, is preparing to make her case in federal Immigration Court that she be allowed to stay ...

British government figures show that dozens of Americans and Canadians have applied for asylum in the U.K. in the past few years on the grounds that they were persecuted in their own countries. Home Office figures show 45 Americans and 15 Canadians tried to obtain asylum in ...

A decision by the Jewish state to build a security barrier along the Israeli-Egyptian border is a purely Israeli affair, the foreign ministry in Cairo said on Monday. "It is an Israeli affair" which does not concern Egypt, foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki told AFP. The Israeli government on Sunday approved the construction of three barriers along the two countries ...

The Israeli government on Sunday approved the construction of a barrier along the border with Egypt in a bid to curb the infiltration of illegal immigrants, a government official said. A government committee approved the construction of three barriers along the 250-kilometre (155-mile) desert frontier that would block the main infiltration routes, the official said. The project, which was put ...