French police encircled a makeshift migrant camp in a wooded area near Dunkirk on Tuesday, evacuating 557 people, the prefecture of the Nord region said. It was the second such operation in two days in northern France, where asylum seekers and migrants gather in hopes ...
The Libyan coast guard has rescued more than 3,000 migrants in 12 separate operations off the country's west coast in the past week, the navy said Sunday. Most of the rescue operations were staged off the cities of Zawiya and Sabratha, navy spokesman Gen. Ayoub ...
A Malta-based humanitarian group that has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean for three years said on Monday it was suspending operations after months of rising tensions with Italian and Libyan authorities. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) was instead sending its rescue ship, the ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to hold her ground in a television debate ahead of German elections, under attack from her Social Democrat (SPD) rival on refugee policy, ties with Turkey and her handling of U.S. President Donald Trump. Merkel was some 14 points ahead of ...
Romania's coast guard says it has intercepted a fishing vessel carrying 87 migrants in the Black Sea that was sailing toward the Romanian coast. A statement said border police spotted the vessel on Sunday morning east of the port of Midia outside Romania's territorial waters. ...
A Congolese asylum-hopeful who was rescued at sea and brought to Italy in 2015 was nabbed aboard a train by police early Sunday as the last of a gang of four young males suspected of raping a Polish tourist on a beach, beating her ...
Italy denied on Wednesday that it supported a deal to pay armed groups implicated in human trafficking to prevent migrants crossing the Mediterranean. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Libya's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, as part of a deal backed by Italy, was paying ...
The United Nations called Monday for the immediate release of the most vulnerable migrants held in Libya, many of whom have been subjected to appalling human rights abuses including "extreme violence." Libya has plunged into chaos since the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in ...
The number of asylum seekers who illegally crossed the U.S. border into Canada more than tripled last month, according to Canadian government data released on Thursday, as migrants worried about the U.S. administration's immigration crackdown head north. More than 3,100 people walked across the border ...
Spanish coast guard members rescued more than 330 people from seven boats Wednesday in the waters between Morocco and Spain, a route increasingly used by migrants trying to get to Europe. "A total of 339 people were rescued, in seven small boats, from 1:00 a.m. ...
The Libyan coast guard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said. It was the latest in a series of incidents in which nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), operating on ...
The Italian government on Sunday welcomed Libya's decision to bar foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast, as two more international charities halted search and rescue operations in the area. The comments from Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano came as Save the ...
