European migrant crisis

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Skipper Guilty Over 700 Migrant Deaths

A Tunisian captain has been found guilty of causing the sinking of a boat in which 700 migrants died in April 2015....

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Turkey Threatens EU With New Surge

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants travel on to...

International

African Migration Expected To Rise Due To Accelerated Climate Change

Africa faces a surge in internal and cross-border migration in the coming years due to increased climate change and its...

International

France Begins To Clear ‘Jungle’ Camp

More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais....

International

EU Gets Tough On African Migrants

'No more Mr. Nice Guy': EU gets tough on African migrants Migrants crossing the Sahara desert into Libya ride on the...

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Stepping Over the Dead On A Migrant Boat

It began with blips on a radar screen, 12 miles off the Libyan coast. As the rescuers approached, they found overloaded...

Opinion

A Decade Of Tests, An Era Of Opportunity

Our world faces formidable challenges. Gulfs of mistrust divide citizens from their leaders. Extremists push people...

International

Does the Media Needlessly Foster Fear?

The Vatican’s Pope Francis has strived to be a voice of peace and unity on a continent struggling to deal with a...

International

Exclude Hungary From EU, Says Luxembourg’s Asselborn

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has called for Hungary to be suspended or even expelled from the European...

International

Thousands of Migrants Rescued Off Libya

About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its...

International

Germany Expects ‘up To 300,000 Migrants’

Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of its Federal Office for Migration...

International

Belgian Police Attacker Shot and Killed In Charleroi

A man shot by police after he attacked two officers with a machete in the Belgian city of Charleroi has died. The women...

Africa & World

European Union to Offer Cash and Visa Deals to African Countries Who Take Back Illegal Migrants

European ministers have devised a dramatic plan to solve the migration crisis, offering a series of sweeteners in...

Africa & World

African Leaders Charged To the African Migrant Crisis

The African Union has been charged to make its position on the African migrant crisis known. The European Union has...