Couple helps 11 refugees flee Ukraine

She's from Ukraine. He was a refugee when he was a child. When Russia attacked Ukraine, they were compelled to help people fleeing the country, and they ended up helping 11 refugees move to the U.S.

• Sep 5, 2023
• 03:17

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Dozens reported killed as Russia expands assault in western Ukraine; Guest worker visa applications soar amid labor shortage

• Mar 14, 2022
• 45:29

U.N. says Israeli raid cut water access to thousands, displaced 173

The U.N. humanitarian agency says about 40 families are still displaced after Israel's raid and thousands are back in homes left "uninhabitable" by the assault.

• Jul 12, 2023

Child evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021 dies in federal U.S. custody

The boy was one of hundreds of Afghan children who arrived to the U.S. in 2021 without their parents after being evacuated from Afghanistan.

• Jun 22, 2023

Fear 100 kids were in hold of migrant boat that sank off Greece

One official said the type of old fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean, this one carrying as many as 750 people, are like "floating coffins."

• Jun 15, 2023

How 2 brave sisters "lost everything" under the Taliban just for singing

"One day, when the Taliban is destroyed, our minds and nerves will calm down, and I will continue my art," singer Khushi Mehtab told CBS News.

• May 29, 2023

More kids than ever displaced and at risk of exploitation, U.N. warns

War, poverty and climate change have driven 42 million children from their homes, leaving them "exposed to heightened risk of violence," the U.N. warns.

• May 24, 2023

Harvard dropout helps refugees find homes

Harvard student helps more than 100,000 people in Ukraine, Syria and Turkey find places to live, after war and earthquakes cost them their homes.

• May 17, 2023
• 02:47

Myanmar's junta accused of blocking aid to Rohingyas after cyclone

Myanmar's rulers put the death toll from Cyclone Mocha at about 20, but with hard-hit areas cut off and allegations of an aid "blockade," there's fear it could be much higher.

• May 17, 2023

Thousands urged to evacuate as cyclone bears down on Bangladesh, Myanmar

U.N. agencies and aid workers prepositioned tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances with mobile medical teams in sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh.

• May 13, 2023

Ukraine war refugee receives gift of sound

A young family that fled Ukraine last year and arrived as war refugees in South Carolina were in desperate need of answers and a miracle when they feared their young daughter was profoundly deaf. As "CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud found out, all hope was not lost after they met hearing specialists in the U.S.

• May 8, 2023
• 07:59

800,000 people could flee Sudan conflict: UN

The United Nations warns fighting in Sudan could lead to a mass exodus by the end of the year. Officials estimate more than 800,000 people could try to seek refuge in neighboring nations. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio spoke with refugees making the journey across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia.

• May 3, 2023
• 05:08

Rumor sends hundreds of migrants rushing for U.S. border at El Paso

"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.

• Mar 13, 2023

U.K. plan to curb migrant "illegal arrivals" called "morally repugnant"

The United Nations refugee agency voiced concern, saying the law "would amount to an asylum ban – extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection."

• Mar 8, 2023

On International Women's Day, Afghan women say world "neglected us completely"

"Afghanistan has become a prison for women," one activist told CBS News, "and the world is just watching."

• Mar 8, 2023

How a Minnesota hockey league helped a Ukrainian refugee feel at home

Margo Biestuzheva and her mother left behind everything they knew after fleeing their homeland, but a hockey team has helped them feel at home in Minneapolis.

• Mar 4, 2023

U.S. sponsors apply to welcome 216,000 Ukrainian refugees under Biden policy

Americans across nearly 10,000 zip codes in all 50 states have applied to sponsor Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion of their homeland.

• Feb 24, 2023

Ukrainian refugee family finds new home in Poland

A Ukrainian family that fled Kharkiv a year ago when Russia invaded their country has found refuge in the home of a Polish stranger. Norah O'Donnell has their story.

• Feb 23, 2023
• 01:35

Catching up with Ukrainian families torn apart by Russia's war

An estimated 16 million people have fled from their homes because of Vladimir Putin's onslaught.

• Feb 21, 2023

Authorities rescue 43 migrants found packed into a van in Bulgaria

The rescue came just days after 18 people who were crammed into a lumber truck, "pressed against each other like in a tin can," were found dead.

• Feb 20, 2023

Refugee who inspired Netflix's "Swimmers" on trial for migrant rescues

Two of the activists on trial in Greece, including Sarah Mardini, who along with her sister inspired the Netflix movie, spent more than three months in jail.

• Jan 10, 2023

Reunited: Two refugees, and the stranger who helped them

In 1999 Ayda Zugay was an 11-year-old refugee fleeing the former Yugoslavia with her older sister when a stranger handed them an envelope on a flight to the United States. Inside they found a $100 bill. It was a gift the sisters have never forgotten. And now, after more than two decades, they found the woman who helped them, and met again in person for the first time since that flight. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports.

• Dec 18, 2022
• 02:53

Influx of migrants expected as Title 42 ends

A D.C. appeals court declined to delay the end of the Title 42 border policy, which will end on Dec. 21 if the Supreme Court does not step in. Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, discusses how his organization helps migrants as they cross into the U.S.

• Dec 16, 2022
• 07:08

Angelina Jolie bows out as envoy for U.N. refugee agency

"I feel it is time for me to work differently, engaging directly with refugees and local organizations," Jolie said.

• Dec 16, 2022

At least 4 dead as boat capsizes in frigid waters between U.K., France

The small boat was apparently full of migrants trying to make the well-trodden, but extremely risky English Channel crossing from mainland Europe to Britain.

• Dec 14, 2022

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