Migrants
More than 4,200 migrants rescued in Mediterranean Sea, 17 dead
The Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue of about 4,200 migrants sailing across the Mediterranean Sea, but also found 17 corpses on several...
Asia’s migrant crisis meeting unlikely to yield solutions
A meeting in Bangkok on Friday about Southeast Asia’s migrant crisis is unlikely to produce a binding agreement or plan of action to save thousands...
Greece appeals for EU help as migrants from Syria and Afghanistan arrive in scores
Greece has asked the European Union for help in dealing with the thousands of migrants who have arrived on its shores in recent months. According...
EU asks member states to admit 40,000 asylum seekers
The EU on Wednesday asked its member states to admit 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea landing in Italy and Greece, which have been overstretched...
Global refugee crises will hinder resettlement of Asian ‘boat people’: UNHCR
Resettling asylum seekers who are among the thousands of boat people in temporary shelters in Indonesia and Malaysia will prove “extremely difficult”...
More than 1,000 migrants land in SE Asia with tales of horror at sea
More than 1,000 people fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh came ashore Friday around Southeast Asia, describing murder, extortion...
1,000 survivors of violence, hunger at sea land in SE Asia
More than 1,000 people fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh came ashore Friday around Southeast Asia, describing murder, extortion...
Malaysia turns away boats as death stalks weary migrants
Malaysia turned away two vessels carrying around 800 migrants, while one boat turned up Thursday in Thai waters, as critics accused Southeast Asian governments...
Up to 6,000 Rohingya, Bangladeshi migrants stranded at sea
Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days.
UK on collision course with European leaders over news EU migrant quota
David Cameron has been told by EU ministers in Eastern Europe that free movement rights of migrant workers is a “red line” and non-negotiable. The...
UK on collision course with eastern leaders over EU migrant deal
David Cameron has been told by EU ministers in Eastern Europe that free movement rights of migrant workers is a “red line” and non-negotiable. The...
EU to propose mandatory migrant settlement quotas: report
The executive body of the European Union will propose that countries share responsibility for housing thousands of refugees arriving in Europe from across...
Libya rejects EU migrant plan, says not asked
Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations is largely rejecting a European Union plan to fight the growing migrant crisis that is centered in his crumbling...
Mediterranean migrant crisis: Italy rescues over 6k, demands help from EU
Italian rescue ships have brought thousands of migrants to the country’s southern ports as crowded shelters in Sicily and on the mainland struggled...
EU leaders commit to ships and aid for migrants crisis as division lingers
European Union leaders on Thursday started committing ships, planes and helicopters to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit convened...
Migrant boat captain charged with multiple manslaughter
The Tunisian captain of an overcrowded migrant boat that sunk off the Libyan coast has been charged with multiple manslaughter by Italian prosecutors.
EU mulls emergency summit after another migrant boat tragedy
European Union foreign ministers are set to meet in Luxembourg to discuss the growing crisis of refugee deaths in the Mediterranean after a smuggler’s...
Under-pressure EU mulls emergency summit after migrant tragedy
After news of Sunday’s disaster several government leaders called for emergency talks and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said foreign...
Hundreds feared dead as another migrant boat sinks; Pope urges action
As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight in what may be the deadliest in recent tragedies...
A look at EU’s handling of the Mediterranean migrant influx
The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea — one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade —...
No more survivors to be found from Italy migrant shipwreck, rescuers say
Rescuers have found no more survivors from the shipwreck of a boat in which 400 migrants are believed to have drowned, the Italian coastguard said Wednesday.
Up to 400 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya, survivors say
Some 400 illegal migrants may have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Sunday, according to survivors who were rescued and brought...
400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya, survivors say
Up to 400 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe died after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were saved and brought...
Italy fights armed smugglers to rescue more than 2,000 Libyan migrants
Four smugglers brandishing Kalashnikovs threatened an Italian Coast Guard motorboat involved in one of several operations that rescued more than 2,000...
Italy rescues more than 2,000 migrants off Libyan coast
The Italian coastguard launched a massive operation Sunday to rescue more than 2,000 migrants in difficulty between the Italian island of Lampedusa and...
UN: At least 300 migrants unaccounted-for in new sea tragedy
An estimated 300 people are thought to have died this week after attempting to reach Italy from Libya in stormy weather, the U.N.
Up to 300 migrants missing in Mediterranean Sea are feared dead
An estimated 300 people are thought to have died this week after attempting to reach Italy from Libya in stormy weather, the U.N.
Italian coastguard saves 900 migrants after smugglers abandon ship
Italy’s Coast Guard said Wednesday it had narrowly averted a catastrophe after people smugglers set a cargo ship with 900 people on board on a collision...
Record numbers trying and dying to reach Europe: United Nations
More than 3,400 people have died in the Mediterranean this year trying to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday.
Lost in translation: ‘Speak German at all times’ call to immigrants is dropped
One of Germany’s governing parties backpedalled Monday for a call for immigrants to speak German even at home, giving way in the face of a storm...
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