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EU backs naval crackdown to end Mediterranean migrant crisis
EU nations have approved plans for an unprecedented naval mission starting next month to fight human traffickers responsible for a flood of migrants crossing...
EU backs naval mission to end migrant crisis
EU nations approved plans on Monday for an unprecedented naval mission starting next month to fight human traffickers responsible for a flood of migrants...
Myanmar says it’s not to blame for migrant crisis
Myanmar refused to shoulder the blame for an escalating migrant crisis on Saturday, and cast doubts on whether it will attend a meeting to be hosted by...
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...
E.U. proposes quota system for migration crisis, Britain opts out
The EU announced a plan on Wednesday to distribute asylum-seekers more fairly around its member states and take in 20,000 more refugees, but Britain’s...
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.
As Europe debates migrant crisis, a surge of boatpeople in Southeast Asia
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday appealed for UN backing for Europe’s plan to confront the Mediterranean migrant crisis by using...
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...
Italy again calls for EU help after more migrant deaths
Italy on Tuesday renewed its appeal to the EU for help in managing a relentless wave of migrant arrivals, after around 40 migrants died when their inflatable...
Forty feared dead in latest Mediterranean migrant boat tragedy
Around 40 people are feared to have drowned after falling out of a rubber boat in the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean.
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...
Italy court OKs arrest of suspected smuggler captain, crew
A judge in Sicily on Friday confirmed the arrest warrants against the suspected captain and crew member of the smuggling boat that capsized in the Mediterranean’s...
Mediterranean boat tragedy: Captain of the ship that sank appears in court
The man in charge of the boat which capsized in the Mediterranean killing at least 800 appeared in court on Friday. Tunisian Mohammed Ali Malek, 27,...
EU triples funding for migrant rescues as UK sends in warship
European Union leaders have agreed to triple funds for operations in the Mediterranean aimed at saving the lives of people fleeing their home countries.
EU triples funding for migrant rescues in the Mediterranean
European Union leaders have agreed to triple funds for operations in the Mediterranean aimed at saving the lives of people fleeing their home countries.
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...
‘Surgical’ mission under consideration to destroy trafficker boats
Traffickers’ boats will be hunted down and destroyed under a plan to halt the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean. The proposal, inspired...
Under-fire EU to consider military action at migrant summit
EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Thursday will consider launching a military operation against human traffickers in Libya in the biggest effort yet...
EU leaders discuss military response, restore rescue operations after migrant tragedy
EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Thursday will consider launching a military operation against human traffickers in Libya in the biggest effort yet...
10 traffickers and 15 migrants arrested as boats pour into Italy
Italian Police in the Sicilian port city of Augusta have arrested 10 alleged traffickers who were amongst hundreds of migrants rescued at sea. Fifteen...
Italian prosecutors blame captain for collision in migrant shipwreck
Italian prosecutors blamed the captain of a grossly overloaded fishing boat for a collision which capsized and sank his vessel off Libya, drowning hundreds...
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...
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