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Drivers in 15-mile motorway jam as migrant checks are tightened at border
Drivers are facing 15-mile tailbacks after a crackdown on people smuggling on a Hungarian motorway leading to the Austrian border.
Emergency meeting of European leaders called over migration crisis
The EU has called an emergency meeting of European leaders to address the growing migration crisis.
Migrant children ‘close to death after being loaded in lorry like animals’
Three children are in a critical condition after they were rescued from a lorry carrying 26 migrants in Austria. The two girls and a boy, aged five...
Migrant crisis: Austrian tragedy suspects arrested as second truck found
Three children are in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants, police said. The lorry was stopped...
Austrian migrant tragedy suspects in court as second lorry found
Three children are in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants, police said. The lorry was stopped...
Austrian migrant tragedy suspects arrive at Hungarian court
Four suspects in the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria arrived Saturday for a court hearing in Hungary.
Migrant toll mounts: Up to 50 refugees found suffocated in the back of a lorry
The bodies of up to 50 refugees have been found in the back of a lorry in Austria.
Migrant crisis: Merkel vows no tolerance for hate as 44 die in Mediterranean
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced down far-right hecklers on Wednesday, vowing zero tolerance for “vile” anti-migrant violence as at least...
50 migrants found dead in hold of boat as crisis raises tensions across Europe
The bodies of about 50 migrants have been found in the hold of a boat off Libya. The bodies were discovered during a rescue operation which saved...
Migrant crisis: Merkel booed but barbed wire and teargas fail to stem the human tide
Police used teargas on an angry mob in Hungary while German leader Angela Merkel was jeered by far-right protesters in the latest signs of deepening tensions...
Hungary may send army to border as fence proves futile in stemming migrant tide
Hungary is considering using the army to secure its southern border where record numbers of migrants are streaming into the European Union.
Thousands of exhausted migrants on long march to better life reach Serbia
Thousands of exhausted migrants trudged on foot into Serbia on Monday as they continued their gruelling journey towards hopes of a better life in Europe...
2,400 refugees arrive on car ferry as Europe’s migrant crisis deepens
A car ferry carrying more than 2,400 Syrian refugees arrived on the Greek mainland on Thursday as a wave of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty continued...
Germany braced for record influx as migration crisis worsens
Germany could see as many as 800,000 migrants arriving this year — four times the number from last year, its interior minister said Wednesday.
At least 40 migrants ‘suffocated in filth’, says Italian navy captain
At least 40 migrants have died at sea and hundreds more have been rescued from an overcrowded smugglers’ boat in the Mediterranean sea.
Italy arrests five men over Libya migrant shipwreck
Italian police have arrested five men accused of multiple murders and human trafficking following a deadly shipwreck off the coast of Libya which left...
Hopes fade for survivors in Libya boat tragedy with 200 now feared dead
Hopes faded of finding survivors of the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy, in which an estimated 200 migrants drowned, on Thursday as rescue ships were...
Scores of migrants feared dead after fishing boat capsizes off Libya
Scores of migrants trying to reach mainland Europe are feared to have drowned off Libya, Italy’s coastguard has said.
Migration plan exposes EU rifts, tough bargaining ahead
Hours of late-night squabbling in Europe’s highest council of state left EU leaders licking political wounds on Friday and preparing for weeks of...
EU to push migrants decision back to September: sources
EU members are unlikely to agree on a programme to accommodate 40,000 asylum seekers this month, meaning a decision is not expected before September, European...
Backlash grows as Italy migrant arrivals top 50,000
Italy’s wealthy North vowed Sunday that it would refuse to accommodate any more migrants as thousands more were rescued in the Mediterranean by a...
Indonesia rescues 65 ‘after Australian navy towed away’ asylum boat
Indonesian authorities have rescued 65 asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia after their boat ran aground on a reef, Indonesian police said on Tuesday.
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...
No ‘miracle’ solution at Asian migrant crisis meeting
Thailand hosted a meeting of 17 countries Friday to address an alarming rise in the number of boat people in Southeast Asian waters.
Thai official warns of ‘alarming level’ of boat people
Thailand’s Foreign Minister said Friday that the upsurge of boat people in Southeast Asia has reached an “alarming level,” and called...
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”...
Malaysia, Indonesia to accept boats in breakthrough on migrants
Malaysia and Indonesia said Wednesday they would no longer turn away boat people, a breakthrough in the region’s migrant crisis that came just hours...
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