Migration

Greece boat disaster: 800 were on board, says Pakistan police report

A boat that capsized off the coast of Greece last week was carrying around 800 people, according to an initial investigation by police in Pakistan, which declared a national day…

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Italy rescues 32 migrants near Lampedusa

Italy's Coast Guard said on Monday it was forced to use a helicopter to rescue 32 migrants, including a child, who had been stranded on a desert island in the…

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Libyan migrants are victims of crimes against humanity – UN mission

A U.N. fact-finding mission on Libya said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity had been committed, including against migrants, and that…

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Italy’s Meloni says her ‘conscience is clear’ after migrant shipwrecks

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday that her government had faced "atrocious" accusations but that her conscience was clear, after Rome's ability to rescue migrants at sea came under…

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UK interior minister attacks ‘naive do-gooders’ amid criticism of small boats strategy

Britain's interior minister Suella Braverman defended her policy to remove almost all migrants who arrive without permission, saying her political opponents were "naive do-gooders" and there had has been "too…

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Shipwreck grief must translate into action – Mattarella

Italian President Sergio Mattarella said that action must be taken after yet another migrant tragedy hit Italy last week following a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast. 70 individuals, including 16…

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Three drown, dozens feared missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece

Three people drowned and two dozen are believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, authorities said on Tuesday. The coast guard said 16 people…

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WATCH: 95 migrants disembark in Carrara after Med journey

95 migrants have been disembarked in the Marina di Carrara port after being rescued close to Libyan waters, TGCOM has reported. 15 women and 38 minors are reportedly on board…

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EU sets out Mediterranean migrant plan ahead of emergency meeting

The European Commission set out a 20-point action plan designed to address surging migration in the central Mediterranean ahead of an emergency meeting of interior ministers. Over 90,000 migrants and…

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UK has not set a timeline for migration deal with France

Britain has not set a deadline for agreeing a deal with France to curb the number of migrants illegally crossing the English Channel, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman said on…

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MEPs block Frontex budget after serious misconduct revealed

The European Parliament has refused to give its approval for the budget of Frontex, the border and coast guard agency. 345 MEPs voted in favour of the committee recommendation to…

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Asylum applicants in Europe up 4% in June 2022, largest group are Syrians

In June 2022, 65 645 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in the EU Member States, up 66% compared with June 2021 (39 515) and 4% compared…

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Six Syrian refugees found dead on boat reaching Sicily

Six Syrian refugees, including three children, were found dead on a migrant boat that arrived on Monday in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.…

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A balanced distribution of migrants should be legally binding, CoFoE told

The creation of a legally-binding treaty ensuring the balanced and proportionate distribution of asylum seekers in the EU on the basis of solidarity and justice was one of the main…

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Seven migrants on boat bound for Lampedusa die of hypothermia

At least seven migrants who were on a boat heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Italy's ANSA news agency reported on Tuesday. The coastguard sighted the boat…

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Shadow payment system on rise among European people smugglers

When Kaiwan Hussein, a 26-year-old from Iraqi Kurdistan, arrived in Germany on Nov. 23 after he slipped across the European Union border from Belarus, he sent a one-word WhatsApp message…

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France ready to talk about migrants if Britain serious, minister says

France is prepared to talk to Britain about migration if it is ready for serious discussions, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday, as he urged the UK to "limit"…

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VIDEO: Poland turns water cannon on rock-throwing migrants at Belarus border

Polish security forces turned water cannon on migrants who threw rocks across the Belarusian border, where thousands have gathered in a chaotic attempt to reach the European Union, video footage shared by authorities…

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Eight migrants found dead in boat near Spain’s Canary Islands

ARGUINEGUIN, Spain, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Spanish coastguards found the bodies of eight African migrants in a boat which was drifting in the sea off Spain's Gran Canaria island on…

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Malta President calls for European consensus on migration and a ‘coalition of the willing’ among EU partners

President of Malta George Vella commended the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the only European Union agency based in Malta, for having been a success story since it was established…

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U.S.-bound, 19,000 migrant children cross dangerous jungle – UNICEF

On their trek north towards the United States, some 19,000 migrant children have crossed the dangerous jungles that sprawl the border between Panama and Colombia so far this year, the United Nations…

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Greece says EU not ready for new migrant crisis as Afghan conflict grows

The European Union is not in a position to deal with a repeat of the migration crisis in 2015 and must try to keep people from fleeing the growing conflict…

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3,800 migrants cross border from Belarus to Lithuania

Around 3,800 people were transferred Monday to an immigration detention center in Vydeniai, Lithuania, after crossing the border from Belarus in the last 24 hours, most of them identifying themselves as…

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At least 57 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast – U.N.

At least 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the central Mediterranean, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration…

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18 arrests in Europol sting against migrant smugglers

An investigation led by the Spanish National Police, with close cooperation with the Albanian Police and law enforcement and immigration authorities in Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia, Kosovo, Portugal, the United…

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Rescue boat with hundreds of migrants picked from Maltese waters asks EU to find it a port

A charity group asked the European Union on Tuesday to find a port where it can dock to disembark hundreds of migrants it has rescued in the central Mediterranean over recent days. Some…

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Migration: Morocco’s action in crisis was unacceptable, Spanish PM say

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described Morocco's actions during a crisis two weeks ago when thousands of would-be migrants crossed into Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta as unacceptable and an assault…

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Spain sends army as 5,000 migrants reach Ceuta

Spain has deployed troops to Ceuta to patrol the border with Morocco after thousands of migrants swam into the northern African enclave amid heightened diplomatic tensions, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska…

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VIDEO: Over 2,700 migrants illegally enter Spain’s Ceuta enclave

Over 2,700 Moroccan citizens on Monday illegally entered Spain's northern Africa enclave of Ceuta, several Spanish outlets reported citing information from the Spanish government's delegation in Ceuta. Among the 2,700 migrants, there were around…

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Council of Europe accuses Greece of migrant pushbacks, says they must stop

Europe's top human rights watchdog has urged Greece to end pushbacks of asylum-seekers on its borders, a practice that Athens denies carrying out. In a letter to Greek ministers dated May 3…

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Libya says it tried its best to save migrants

The Libyan Navy denied allegations that it stood idle as a number of migrants drowned off its coast. A spokesperson for the Navy, Masoud Abdelsamad, insisted with reporters that the…

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Latest Mediterranean migrants tragedy a time for shame, Pope says

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday that "now is the time for shame" after 130 migrants were feared dead in the Mediterranean and a U.N. organisation accused…

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Wave of migrant landings in Lampedusa

There has been a new wave of migrant landings in recent days in Lampedusa, where over 400 migrants have landed within a few hours. After a boat with 215 persons,…

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1,000 migrants returned back to Libya

Almost 1,000 migrants have been intercepted and taken back to Libya by the Coast Guard and coastal security authorities, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Libya revealed in…

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Council of Europe says Italy and Malta non-compliant on migration; delayed rescues are putting human lives at risk

A spokesperson for Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic said Friday that EU states must urgently change their migration policies in the Mediterranean since current ones place at…

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Another tragedy in the Mediterranean as 60 people die off Libyan coast

Alarm Phone revealed that up to 60 people were killed after a boat fire off the Libyan coast. The tragedy unfolded off the Libyan coast on Thursday, 18 March 2021.…

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Photo Story – Guatemalan nationals killed in Mexico

Family and friends of Elfego Miranda, one of the Guatemalan nationals killed in the Santa Anita massacre, attend his funeral procession at the San Francisco cemetery in Comitancillo, Guatemala, 13…

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Sea-Watch 3 allowed to bring rescued boat migrants to Sicily

Rome (dpa) - The private aid ship Sea-Watch 3 has been permitted to bring ashore 363 boat migrants rescued from distress at sea, the Berlin-based organization Sea-Watch announced on Twitter on Wednesday. Italy…

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100 persons rescued off Libya’s coast

The Libyan naval authorities have confirmed the rescue of 100 illegal immigrants off the coasts of Zuwara and Zawiya on Saturday. Libya Observer reports that Libyan Coast Guard and the…

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41 died by drowning in the Mediterranean’s latest migrant tragedy

(CDeNews) - The UNHCR team and IOM team in Porto Empedocle confirmed that they have verified the accurate testimonies about a shipwreck that took place on Saturday 20 February in…

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Italian authorities rescue 45 migrants after ship capsizes, 55 migrants enter Malta – Update

The Italian Coast Guard said it had rescued 45 migrants after their ship capsized 15 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. “At the moment, a total of 45…

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Migrant boat sinks off Lampedusa with one dead and 22 missing

One migrant is dead and 22 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean sea off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Tunisian navy has said. Bad weather…

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UK has more EU citizens than some member states, Gove says

The United Kingdom has granted settled status to 4.3 million European Union citizens, more than the population of some of the bloc's member states, indicating that Brexit has not led…

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Greek coastguard recovers one dead, rescues 27 on Lesbos island

Greek coastguard officials recovered the body of one man and rescued 27 people from a rocky beach on the island of Lesbos after they apparently arrived by boat from Turkey, authorities said on Tuesday. "We have rescued 11 men, 15…

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Bosnia sets up tents for freezing migrants

Trying to resolve a humanitarian disaster, the Bosnian military set up tents Friday for hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in a burned-out refugee camp that has no facilities…

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At least 20 die as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia

At least 20 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian…

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Number of deaths recorded on migratory routes register drop

The number of deaths recorded on migratory routes fell this year, although COVID-19 difficulties and so-called “invisible shipwrecks” mean the real number is probably much higher, officials at the U.N.…

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Morocco refuses EU request to re-admit third-country migrants

Morocco has rebuffed a European Union request to take back third-party nationals who reach Europe from the North African kingdom, its interior ministry said. EU migration commissioner Yiva Johansson visited…

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MEPs to grill Frontex director on agency’s role in pushbacks of asylum-seekers

MEPs are set to demand answers from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency’s Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri regarding the incidents revealed by media in which Greek coastguards -with the…

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Malta joins Med states in calling for mandatory quotas for relocating refugees

Malta together with fellow Mediterannean countries Greece, Italy and Spain insisted that mandatory quotas for sharing out people who qualify for refugee status among the 27 EU countries must be…

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Heartbreaking footage of Joseph’s mother screaming for lost baby as dinghy sinks

Heartbreaking footage of a mother screaming that she has lost her baby as a migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean Sea has been released by a charity. "I'm not going…

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Demonstrators demand better conditions for Canary Islands’ migrant arrivals

Demonstrators on the Canary Islands demanded better living conditions for thousands of migrants who have reached the Spanish archipelago from Africa. On Saturday, a slow procession of hundreds of demonstrators,…

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6 months old Joseph, who died in latest migrant tragedy in the Med laid to rest

6 months old Yusuf (Joseph) Ali Kanneh, exhibited in the mortuary of the cemetery of the island of Lampedusa, Italy, 13 November 2020. The child died in the shipwreck off…

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At least 5 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya – NGO Open Arms

At least 5 people have died in a migrant shipwreck in the central Mediterranean, Spanish charity Open Arms said on Wednesday, warning that the number of fatalities could grow as…

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Wave of migrant arrivals leaves 2,000 stranded at Gran Canaria dockside camp

More than 2,000 African migrants were stranded in a dockside camp on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday after a wave of arrivals overwhelmed local authorities' capacity to…

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Rescued migrants arrive in the Canary Islands

A group of migrants arrive to Arguineguin, Gran Canarias, Spain, on Saturday. A total of 361 migrants were rescued after eight boats were intercepted in the early hours at sea…

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South Korea takes in 164 asylum seekers from nearly 6,000 applicants

South Korea has accepted just 164 asylum seekers this year from nearly 6,000 who applied despite coronavirus travel curbs, government data showed. Immigration is a contentious issue in South Korea,…

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