Asylum seekers, mainly from Haiti, clambering over a gully from upstate New York into Canada on Friday were undeterred by the prospect of days in border tents, months of uncertainty and signs of a right-wing backlash in Quebec. More than 200 people a day are illegally walking across the U.S....

( The Guardian )- Eurovision song contest winner Conchita Wurst has cancelled her performance at the Edinburgh festival after her band members were denied visas. The Austrian drag queen had been due to perform at the Friday night showing of New European Songbook alongside her Syrian...

( Al-Monitor )- A State Department review that faulted the agency for failing to comply with its own policies for overseeing bomb disposal grants in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan won’t impact ongoing efforts to remove improvised explosive devices left behind by the Islamic State (IS),...

Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...