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Annual UK net migration hits record of more than 500,000: Official data
Net migration to the United Kingdom rose to a record of around 504,000 in the year to June 2022, official statistics showed on Thursday, driven by an ... World News -
European police arrest 39 in migrant smuggling bust
Police in five European countries have arrested 39 people in a major cross-border operation targeting an Iraqi-Kurdish gang which smuggled migrants ... World News -
Trinidad sends back 35 migrants after gunfire from coast guard kills baby
Trinidad and Tobago repatriated 35 Venezuelan migrants on Friday after a coast guard interception of their boat ended in a deadly at-sea incident in ... World News -
Suspected migrant trying to reach Britain found dead on French beach
Rescue workers on Sunday found the body of a man wearing a life vest, thought to be a migrant trying to reach Britain, on a beach near the northern ... World News -
Italy welcomes plan to ‘abolish’ existing EU asylum rules
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte welcomed Thursday a plan to change the so-called Dublin Regulation on how asylum claims are processed in the ... World News -
In Afghanistan, tree loss exacerbates flooding, forces migration
In a small village in northern Afghanistan, nestled in barren mountains and cut off from main roads, Arsam points to what is left of his house: the ... Features -
Ethiopia migrants recall tragedy when 64 suffocated in a metal container
Silence gradually replaced the screams around Dejene Degefa as his fellow travelers suffocated one by one inside a locked metal container. He ... Africa -
Hundreds protest Afghan migrant drownings at Iran border
Hundreds of people protested outside the Iranian consulate in western Afghanistan Monday over the deaths of several migrants who were allegedly forced ... Middle East -
Greek camp under lockdown after migrant tests positive for coronavirus: Officials
Officials in Greece on Sunday placed a second migrant camp near Athens under lockdown after an Afghan resident tested positive for the coronavirus, ... World News -
Coronavirus: Turkey to hold migration summit by teleconference
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks with French and German leaders about solving a migration crisis next week by teleconference, rather ... Middle East -
Turkish patrol boat rams Greek coastguard vessel amid heightened tension
The Greek coastguard said Wednesday that one of its patrol boats was rammed by a Turkish coastguard vessel amid heightened tension between the two ... World News -
EU tells Turkey’s Erdogan to pull migrants back from Greek border
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought more European support on Monday over the war in Syria and for hosting millions of refugees, but was told ... Middle East -
EU considers taking in 1,500 refugee children living in Greek camps: Germany
The European Union is considering taking in up to 1,500 migrant children who are currently housed in Greek camps, Germany said Monday. “A ... World News -
Amid migrant crisis, Greece-Turkey tense relations play out on social media
Greeks and Turks are waging a proxy war on social media with photos, video and commentary purporting to show the other side behaving badly in a ... Digital -
Turkey’s Erdogan set to discuss migration issue with EU
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would hold talks in Brussels on Monday as he called on Greece to “open the gates” for ... Middle East -
Greece to build new camps after migrant surge: Official
Greece plans to build two new temporary camps to house hundreds of additional asylum seekers who arrived after a surge enabled by Turkey, the ... World News -
EU rejects Turkey’s ‘blackmail,’ borders to stay closed to migrants: France FM
The European Union will not give in to “blackmail” by Turkey and its borders will remain closed to migrants despite Ankara’s threat ... World News -
Turkey rejected 1 bln euro migrant aid from EU: Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he had rejected an EU offer of an additional one billion euros to help deal with the roughly ... World News -
Migrants clash with Greek police at border after Ankara opens floodgates
Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stone-throwing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Sunday, with ... World News -
Clashes between migrants, Greek police erupt on Turkish border
Thousands of migrants stuck on the Turkey-Greece border clashed with Greek police on Saturday, according to an AFP photographer at the scene. Greek ... Middle East -
Turkey’s Erdogan vows to keep doors open for refugees heading to Europe
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country’s borders with Europe were open, as thousands of refugees gathered at the ... Middle East -
Greece blocks migrants at border after Turkey says it will let refugees into Europe
Greece will not tolerate any illegal entries of migrants through its borders and will increase its border security, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ... World News -
EU asylum applications rise for first year since 2015
Asylum applications rose in the EU in 2019, official figures showed on Wednesday, driven by a dramatic increase in the number of Venezuelans seeking ... World News -
Greek islanders clash with police over new migrant center
Riot police on the Greek island of Lesbos fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing protesters angry over the creation of a ... World News -
Hungary closes Serbia border point as migrants gather
Hungarian police temporarily closed a Serbian border crossing Thursday after a large migrant group showed up there and demanded to be let in.The ... World News -
French police clear last migrant camp in north Paris
French police on Tuesday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off ... World News -
Greece wants floating fence to keep migrants out
Greece wants to install a floating barrier in the Aegean Sea to deter migrants arriving at its islands' shores through Turkey, government officials ... World News -
Irregular migration to EU at lowest level since 2013
The level of arrivals of irregular immigrants to the EU has dropped to its lowest level since 2013, the bloc’s border security agency Frontex ... World News -
Eleven migrants die after boat sinks off Turkey
Eleven migrants died on Saturday, including eight children, when their vessel sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, state news agency ... Middle East -
Migrant in Libya relives brutal detention through sketches
A guard withholds water from a barefoot migrant kneeling in front of him. An emaciated man lies on the ground while a thermostat reads a broiling 43 ... Features