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‘Stop this shipwreck of civilization,’ says Pope as he comforts migrants on Lesbos
Pope Francis returned Sunday to the Greek island of Lesbos to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was the indifference ... World News -
‘Mobility divide’ looms as poor stuck in fragile states, UN body on migration says
Migration between richer countries has risen, while conflict and climate change have increased internal displacement in fragile states that many ... World News -
Tunisian navy ‘rescues’ almost 500 migrants: Ministry
Tunisian authorities said Friday they had rescued almost 500 migrants whose boat ran into trouble off the North African country’s coast during a bid ... World News -
Lukashenko tells migrants at EU border with Belarus he won’t force them to go home
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told migrants stranded at the border with Poland on Friday that his country would help them return home if they ... World News -
Migrant boat capsizes in English Channel; at least 31 dead
At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the ... World News -
Two migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands
Two migrants died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands on a boat transporting more than 30 people, AFP confirmed Thursday, the latest deadly ... World News -
G7 nations condemn Belarus over ‘aggressive’ migration policies
Foreign ministers from the G7 group of wealthy economies condemned Belarus for orchestrating irregular migration across its borders, and called for an ... World News -
Unprecedented migrant wave from Belarus threatens ‘security of entire EU’: Poland PM
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said onTuesday that an unprecedented wave of migrants trying to illegally enter Poland from Belarus ... World News -
German boat with 800 rescued migrants reaches Sicilian port
A German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants, including 15 very young children, steamed into a Sicilian port on Sunday after being ... World News -
Pope pleads not to send migrants back to Libya and ‘inhumane’ camps
Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned plea to end the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries where ... World News -
More than 1,000 migrants cross English Channel to UK in two days
Britain has rescued or intercepted a total of 1,115 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel over just two days, the country’s interior ... World News -
Moroccan police thwart migrants targeting Spanish enclave
Moroccan police thwarted an attempt by several hundred migrants to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the northern African coast, ... World News -
Interfaith coalition asks Poland to help migrants stuck at border
An interfaith coalition called on Polish authorities Tuesday to give humanitarian aid to a group of migrants who have been stuck in the open air at ... World News -
Turkey rescues 37 people from sunken migrant boat, says defense ministry
Thirty-seven people have been rescued from a migrant boat with 45 people on board that sank south of Turkey, and Turkish naval ships and an aircraft ... World News -
More than 200 migrants cross from Morocco into Spain’s Melilla
Authorities in Spain’s autonomous city of Melilla said Thursday that 238 African men have made it to the Northern African Spanish enclave after ... World News -
Lithuania begins building barrier on border with Belarus to block migrants
Lithuania began building a barrier along its border with Belarus on Friday after accusing Belarusian authorities of flying in migrants from abroad to ... World News -
At least three dead, five missing as migrant boat overturn off Canary Isles: Rescuers
At least three people died, including a woman believed to be pregnant, and another five were missing after a migrant boat overturned off Lanzarote in ... World News -
EU expresses concern about Greek use of sound cannon to scare away migrants
The European Union expressed concern on Thursday about Greece’s use of a sound cannon to scare migrants away from its borders, raising questions over ... World News -
Bodies of three migrant children wash ashore in Libya: UN
The bodies of three children who apparently were among Europe-bound migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya washed ashore in the North ... North Africa -
UNHCR appeals to Italy not to impede migrant rescue boats in central Mediterranean
The head of the UN refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central ... World News -
Huge rise in US-bound child migrants crossing Panama jungle, UN warns
The number of US-bound migrant children crossing the dangerous Darien jungle in Panama on foot has increased more than 15-fold in recent years and is ... World News -
UK-based migrants are made eligible for COVID-19 vaccine
Migrants living in Britain will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines regardless of whether they have the legal right to live and work in the ... Coronavirus -
Over 800 EU-bound Libyan migrants intercepted by navy: UN agency
Hundreds of Europe-bound migrants were intercepted in the Mediterranean sea off Libya’s coasts and taken into detention over the last 24 hours, the UN ... North Africa -
Guatemala escalates crackdown efforts on migrant caravan bound for US
Guatemalan authorities on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling in a migrant ... World News -
Greece calls on EU to ensure Turkey takes back over 1,000 migrants
Greece called Thursday on European Union authorities to better enforce a landmark 2016 migrant deal and ensure that Turkey take back nearly 1,500 ... World News -
Former Italian minister Matteo Salvini faces hearing in migrant affair
Italian political leader Matteo Salvini appeared Saturday before a Palermo judge in connection with a 2019 incident during which he blocked migrants ... World News -
Hundreds of migrants rescued by Spanish-flagged boat in Mediterranean
A Spanish-flagged humanitarian ship on Sunday was seeking a port of safety for 265 migrants its crew rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in the last ... World News -
Bodies of seven suspected migrants wash up on Algeria beach
The bodies of seven people, believed to be migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe, washed up on an Algerian beach on Saturday, the emergency ... North Africa -
At least 20 dead as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia: Official
At least 20 African migrants died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of ... North Africa -
Humanitarian ship brings 255 migrants to Italy’s Sicily island
The humanitarian ship Open Arms reached the coast of the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday and transferred 255 migrants to the Italian authorities, ... World News