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MEPs discussed the consequences and impact of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy breaches on Monday with experts and three Facebook representatives.

A top Myanmar general sanctioned by the European Union for his role in the brutal crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims has been fired.

A high-level delegation from Eritrea is in neighboring Ethiopia for historic talks that could bring an end to one of Africa's longest-running conflicts.

Hungary is at clear risk of a serious breach of EU values and the Council should intervene to prevent it, the Civil Liberties Committee said on Monday.

The EU should ensure that helping migrants for humanitarian reasons is not punishable as a crime Civil Liberties Committee MEPs said on Monday.

A Chadian man waits at the Egyptian border at Sallum, having fled the conflict in Libya, where ongoing instability has been affecting neighboring countries since the fall of Muammar Gadaffi in 2011.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the county's presidential election, giving him a new term as the office of president gains more power.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today warned of a widening gap between the number of refugees in need of resettlement and the places made available by governments around the world.

Save the Children has begun assisting two sisters, Shadia*, 2, and Wafa*, 6, who have been orphaned and badly injured following an airstrike that hit near their parents' vehicle, close to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.

MEPs will visit Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil to assess the humanitarian situation of people fleeing Venezuela.

From 25 to 29 June, five MEPs headed by Agustín Díaz de Mera (EPP, ES) will travel to Colombia’s capital city Bogotá and the border city of Cúcuta, while another two, led by Francisco Assis (S&D, PT), will first travel to the Brazilian border city of Boa Vista and then the capital, Brasilia.