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Italy’s migrant crisis intensifies with murder arrests, drownings
Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis...
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...
People traffickers ‘sank migrant boat carrying 500 on purpose’, say survivors
People traffickers deliberately wrecked a boat that sank in the Mediterranean with 500 migrants feared dead, survivors have claimed.
Tunisia’s fishermen save rising tide of migrants
Chamseddine Bourassine, a Tunisian fisherman in his 50s, says he and his colleagues are on the front lines of a growing humanitarian disaster as waves...
Factors foreign and domestic contribute to child migration to U.S.
In late 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation to combat trafficking of humans for forced sex and labor.
More than 60 migrants drown in boat sinking off Yemen
Sixty migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia and two Yemeni crew members drowned last weekend in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the...
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