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More than 2,500 migrants dead or missing in Mediterranean in 2023: UN
More than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2023, a UN High Commissioner for Refugees ... World News -
Police rescue six female migrants from refrigerated truck in northern France
Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a reporter, ... World News -
Cyprus says EU must offer Lebanon aid to deal with influx of Syrian migrants
EU member Cyprus wants Brussels to offer financial and technical aid to Lebanon to help it cope with an influx of Syrian refugees and keep them from ... Middle East -
20 arrests made after racism-fueled attacks on migrants in Cyprus
Police in Cyprus have made 20 arrests after a spate of racism-fuelled violence against migrants which erupted in the west of the island last week and ... World News -
US thwarts attempted smuggling network from Uzbekistan
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it detected and stopped a network attempting to smuggle people from Uzbekistan into the United States and ... World News -
Cyprus police arrest 21 people after violent anti-immigrant clashes
Cyprus police arrested 21 people late Monday after violent clashes involving immigrants and residents of a community in the west of the island which ... World News -
Boat capsizes off Greece killing four migrants
Four migrants died Monday when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, while 18 people were rescued, the coastguard said.For all the ... World News -
Greek coast guard rescues 48 migrants from rudderless boat near Lesbos Island
Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos, close to the Turkish ... World News -
27 migrants found dead in the desert near Tunisia-Libya border
At least 27 suspected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days in the country’s western desert near the border with Tunisia, Libyan ... North Africa -
Morocco's navy intercepts over 50 migrants in latest attempted crossing to Spain
Morocco’s navy on Tuesday intercepted more than 50 sub-Saharan African migrants off the kingdom’s southwestern coast, state media said, the latest in ... World News -
Libya finds migrants’ bodies near Tunisia border
Libyan border guards have recovered the bodies of several migrants from a desert area where many have reportedly been forcibly taken by Tunisian ... Middle East -
13 Senegalese migrants perish as boat sinks off Moroccan coast
At least 13 Senegalese migrants from the same town died when their boat sank off the coast of Morocco late last week, the town’s mayor told AFP on ... World News -
Watchdog warns of Tunisia’s ‘serious abuses’ against migrants
Tunisian security forces have committed “serious abuses” against black African migrants, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, calling on the European ... Middle East -
Libya court jails 38 human traffickers linked to tragic Mediterranean migrants deaths
A court in eastern Libya sentenced five people to life in prison after they were convicted of human trafficking over the deaths of 11 migrants who ... World News -
Peruvian authorities rescue 23 Afghans from migrant traffickers at Brazil border
Peruvian authorities on Sunday rescued 23 Afghans from migrant traffickers along the border with Brazil, the attorney general’s office said.For the ... World News -
Turkey rescues migrants, accuses Greece of ‘pushing back’ boats
Turkey has rescued 95 migrants from three overloaded boats in the Aegean Sea, the interior ministry said on Monday, accusing Greece of “pushing back” ... World News -
Over 280 Pakistani families fear relatives on migrant boat that sank in Greece
More than 280 Pakistani families fear they had relatives who drowned when a migrant boat sank off Greece last week, making it one of Pakistan’s worst ... World News -
Jailed Egyptian smugglers awaiting trial over death of migrants on sinking ship
Nine men charged over the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea this year that killed at least 82 people were detained pending trial, the ... World News -
Russia rescues 68 migrants after boat capsizes in Mediterranean Sea
A Russian warship and cargo ship rescued 68 people overnight from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday.It said in ... World News -
Pakistan arrests 10 trafficking suspects after migrants perish Greek boat tragedy
Pakistan authorities arrested 10 alleged human traffickers days after dozens of migrants drowned off the coast of Greece, officials said on ... World News -
Over 120 Syrians were onboard Greece migrant shipwreck
At least 125 Syrians were on board a migrant ship that sank off Greece this week, relatives and activists said Friday, as rescuers scoured the waters ... World News -
Greek rescuers lose hope of finding survivors of sinking migrant boat
Greek rescuers on Friday scanned the Ionian Sea by air and boat for survivors of a migrant boat sinking, as hope faded of finding more people alive ... World News -
Nine Egyptians arrested on suspicion of being smugglers after Greece boat disaster
Nine Egyptians have been arrested on suspicion of being people smugglers after the migrant boat disaster off Greece that claimed at least 78 lives, a ... World News -
Greece launches massive search for survivors of shipwreck that killed 78 migrants
Rescuers scoured seas off Greece on Thursday in a massive search operation, as hopes dwindled of finding survivors of a shipwreck that killed at least ... World News -
Two migrants drown in an attempt to reach Spain
The bodies of two migrants were found on a beach in southeastern Spain after 132 other people arrived in two boats Friday, a government official said. ... World News -
UK PM Sunak claims progress as he vows to stop boat migrants
UK PM Sunak claims progress as he vows to stop boat migrantsPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government is making progress on cutting the number of ... World News -
Five border police officers arrested in Greece for smuggling migrants from Turkey
Five Greek border police officers were arraigned Tuesday as suspected accomplices of a smuggling network that illegally brought migrants into the ... World News -
Philippines coordinating with Kuwait embassy, recruitment agencies after entry ban
The Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is coordinating with its embassy in Kuwait and recruitment agencies in response to the Kuwaiti ... Gulf -
Germany approves tougher migrant measures to limit influx
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the heads of Germany’s 16 states on Wednesday agreed on new measures to tackle soaring migration after crunch talks.In the ... World News -
Seven killed after motorist drives into crowd outside Texas migrant facility
Seven people died and as many as six others were injured Sunday in Texas when a driver crashed into them outside a facility housing migrants in the ... World News