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Workers from Thailand prune artichoke crops prior to the start of the ritual crop sabbatical, which begins at the Jewish New Year, so the vegetable will be kosher when it sprouts, at Beit Uziel in central Israel, September 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Why were so many Thai farmers among the hostages held by Hamas?

Israel says it has retrieved the body of a 35-year-old Thai hostage who was abducted into Gaza during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman joins President Donald Trump to greet delegations at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

World Cup host Saudi Arabia targeted by African-led unions’ complaint to UN-backed labor body

Bangladeshi migrant workers play cards in a dormitory in Klang, Malaysia, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Azneal Ishak).

Migrant workers in Malaysia seek unpaid wages from a supplier to Japanese companies

Money sent home to Cajola, Guatemala, from the U.S. paid for the construction of dozens of homes, as shown, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Funds from migrants sent back home help fuel some towns’ economies. A GOP plan targets that

In this May 8, 2014, file photo a man works on construction of the Kingdom Tower, a planned 252-story building, which aims to become the world's tallest skyscraper when complete, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup

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A decade after the refugee crisis, Lesbos still looks for closure

Ten years after Europe’s refugee crisis brought waves of desperate migrants to its shores, the Greek island of Lesbos is still living with the aftermath. Once the key landing point for people fleeing war and poverty, the island has returned to a sense of normalcy. Tourists are back, and some former refugees have settled into daily life. But traces of the crisis remain — from unmarked graves to the toys of refugee children in the beach. As the European Union moves to tighten migration policies, many locals fear the island could once again become a frontline for people seeking a new life in Europe.

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A decade after the refugee crisis, Lesbos still waits for closure: AP Explains

Migrant workers in Malaysia seek unpaid wages from a supplier to major Japanese companies

China’s army of food delivery drivers get by with help from discount ‘loving meals’

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Liu Lijie, a food delivery rider from Ele.me eats his meal at Yushiji restaurant offering the “aixincan” or “loving meals," in Beijing on March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s army of food delivery drivers get by with help from discount ‘loving meals’

Miami’s ‘Little Venezuela’ fears Trump’s moves against migration

A protest organized by CGIL trade union in front of Latina court, south of Rome, Italy, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s biggest union joins prosecution of farm owner over death of Indian migrant worker

Muslim worshippers offer Eid al-Fitr prayer in the mixed Arab Jewish city of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Husband hopeful his missing wife will be found under collapsed Bangkok building

At least 4 construction workers are killed in an avalanche in northern India

In this handout photo supplied by the Indian Army, a team carries out rescue operations for trapped construction workers who were swept away by an avalanche near the Mana Pass in northern Uttarakhand state in Chamoli district, India, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Indian Army via AP)

At least 4 construction workers are killed in an avalanche in northern India

People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK touts a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration

Eggs thrown at Malaysian embassy in protest at Indonesian migrant worker shooting

Thai citizens, who were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, leave Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Why were so many Thai farmers among the hostages held by Hamas?

Protesters throw eggs during a demonstration in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, following a fatal shooting of an Indonesian migrant worker in neighboring waters. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Protesters pelt Malaysian embassy with eggs over Indonesian migrant worker shooting

Descendants of Chinese immigrants celebrate Lunar New Year in Peru

China’s Lunar New Year travel rush kicks into high gear with 9 billion trips expected

A woman directs passengers at the departure hall at the Beijing West Railway Station ahead of the Lunar New Year in Beijing on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

China’s Lunar New Year travel rush kicks into high gear with 9 billion trips expected

Reverend at inaugural prayer service implores Trump to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ people and migrants

Gilbert Houngbo, Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

UN labor agency head praises relations with Saudi Arabia during investigation of 2034 World Cup host

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Schools around the US are weighing responses to possible immigration raids

Migrant workers in Lebanon are trying to return home after abuses and then war

Sierra Leonean migrant worker Isatta Bah, 24, smiles as she holds her daughter, Blessing, one year old, during an interview with The Associated Press while waiting to be repatriated back home, as they are sheltered at a former car dealership in Hazmieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Migrant workers in Lebanon are trying to return home after abuses and then war

FIFA President Gianni Infantino' speaks during the draw for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

World Cup hosting decisions set to kick off a decade of scrutiny on Saudi Arabia and FIFA

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk talks to the media during an end of year press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Head of UN human rights promises advice to FIFA and Saudi Arabia over 2034 World Cup issues

FILE - A general views shows the King Abdullah sports city stadium, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, on the eve of the Spanish Super Cup Final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FIFA urged not to give 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia in report alleging abuses of migrant labor

King Charles and Emir of Qatar view Royal Collection items relating to Qatar

FILE - Migrants react as they arrive at the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Maria Ximena, File)

Spain to grant residency, work permits to hundreds of thousands of migrants in the country illegally

As Israel bombards Lebanon, migrant workers claim they’re being excluded from shelters

FILE -A view of the Central Business District in Beijing, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China redoubles first-aid for its economy with support for banks and workers

Pope Francis wraps up his Asia and Oceania visit: AP Explains

Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore's National Parks Board Hwang Yu-Ning presents Pope Francis with a 'Dendrobium His Holiness Pope Francis', a specially bred orchid variety named after him at the Parliament House in Singapore, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Pope Francis flew to Singapore on Wednesday for the final leg of his trip through Asia, arriving in one of the world's richest countries from one of its poorest after a record-setting final Mass in East Timor. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope marvels at Singapore’s skyscrapers and asks that the lowest migrant workers not be forgotten

Members of the Indian community in Italy protest in Latina, some 60 kilometers south of Rome, Saturday, June 22, 2024, asking justice for Satnam Singh, an Indian laborer, bled to death after his arm got stuck in a nylon-wrapping machine and was wrenched off. Police on Tuesday arrested Antonello Lovato, a farm owner on suspicion of homicide after he allegedly refused entreaties by Singh's wife, who also worked at the farm, to call an ambulance, claiming he was already dead. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italian landowner is arrested after an Indian worker bled to death in accident with farm equipment

A man wearing a bandage on his right hand and a cast on left leg looks at the site of a burnt battery manufacturing factory in Hwaseong, South Korea, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korean investigators search in factory ruins after fire killed 23, mostly Chinese migrants

A man wearing a bandage on his right hand and a cast on left leg looks at the site of a burnt battery manufacturing factory in Hwaseong, South Korea, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korean rescuers search burned factory after a blaze killed 22, mostly Chinese migrants