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Merkel clings to her migrant policy despite support for her party crumbling...
Angela Merkel has vowed to stick to her controversial migrant policy despite suffering heavy losses in state elections on Sunday. The German chancellor’s “open-door” refugee policy has been widely...
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About 875 new refugees arrived in Greece over night, despite new deportation...
ATHENS, Greece — Hundreds of mostly Syrian asylum-seekers continued to arrive in Greece by sea Sunday despite the start of an international agreement to send migrants back to Turkey. While the deal...
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After European Union leaders agreed to a deal with Turkey, European Council President Donald Tusk asserted it will end “the days of irregular migration” to the continent. That latter crisis is perhaps...
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Chaos in Greece: Government halts migrant deportations while it processes...
LESBOS, Greece — The expulsion of migrants from Greece to Turkey was suspended Tuesday after authorities admitted it could take months to process thousands of asylum seekers stranded on the Aegean...
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Up to 500 people feared dead after smugglers try to transfer migrants to...
GENEVA — Up to 500 people are feared dead after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday, citing the accounts of survivors. The disaster happened in waters...
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‘We saw the dead people with our eyes’: Two men describe surviving big...
ATHENS, Greece — Two men who were among 41 people picked up over the weekend from a boat found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea described on Thursday surviving what they say was a shipwreck that might...
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Bodies spotted in the Mediterranean Sea after migrant boat sinks off of...
ROME — A migrant boat sank off Libya’s coast Thursday, with some 20 bodies spotted in the sea. Officials said 88 people had been rescued. The Libyan coast guard also reported finding four bodies as...
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More than 700 migrants feared dead in largest loss of life in the...
POZZALLO, Italy — Over 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried desperately to reach Europe in unseaworthy smuggling boats,...
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Young Alan Kurdi’s death on beach was in vain, father says, as migrant...
ROME — The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy who became a tragic emblem of Europe’s migration crisis when his body washed up on a Turkish beach last year says his son died for nothing because...
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‘This is our Nazi neighbourhood’: Bottles fly as migrants and far-right clash...
BERLIN — Far-right protesters blocked an ambulance from reaching an injured asylum seeker after violent clashes broke out between the two groups in an east German town. Witnesses in Bautzen described...
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Italy braces as 235,000 migrants on Libya’s coast wait to cross the...
At least 235,000 migrants and refugees are on the coast of Libya waiting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a United Nations official has warned. “We have on our lists 235,000 migrants who are just...
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Hungary’s prime minister vows to push through legislation rejecting migrant...
Viktor Orban’s bid to strike a blow against Brussels faltered Sunday night after his referendum on whether Hungary should accept EU migrant quotas was declared invalid after it failed to meet the...
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‘An absolutely appalling figure’: At least 239 migrants believed to have...
BRUSSELS – At least 239 migrants are believed to have drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the UN refugee agency said Thursday, adding to the toll in what was already the deadliest year on...
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Afghan migrant’s arrest in murder, rape case must not lead to...
BERLIN — The arrest of a 17-year-old Afghan migrant suspected of raping and killing a university student must not be used for “rabble-rousing and conspiracy propaganda,” Germany’s vice chancellor said...
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Spanish NGO boat saves 391 migrants and refugees off Libyan coast
BARCELONA, Spain — A boat belonging to a Spanish aid organization has rescued 391 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. Laura Lanuza, spokeswoman for Spain’s Proactiva...
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Up to 50 migrants ‘deliberately drowned’ off Yemen, UN says
JOHANNESBURG — Up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were “deliberately drowned” when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen’s coast, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday, calling the...
View Article‘The boats to Europe have stopped’: Ouster of a brutal militia from Libya’s...
SABRATHA, Libya — For nearly two years, this ancient, beachfront city, famed for its Roman ruins, was one of North Africa’s largest smuggling hubs, a gateway for tens of thousands of migrants seeking...
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Spanish non-profit rescue 476 migrants adrift at sea
MADRID — Spain’s maritime rescue service said Sunday that it saved 476 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from African shores. The migrants were pulled from 15...
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