Macron and Conte call for overhaul of 'ineffective' EU migrant policy
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called Wednesday for a reform of Europe's "ineffective" EU immigration policy, bemoaning a lack of solidarity as they met to turn the page on Italy's previous anti-migrant populist government. "The European Union hasn't shown enough ...
Malta saves stricken pregnant migrant, 44 others adrift in Mediterranean after receiving SOS
Malta on Wednesday said it had rescued 45 stricken migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing, including airlifting a pregnant woman at risk of miscarriage. The migrants sent an SOS signal to Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hot-line, saying the wooden boat they were in ...
Developed countries received sharply fewer asylum applications last year, a report said Wednesday, as the world remains gripped in a migrant crisis fueled by wars and economic hardship. Applications for asylum in the 36-country Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) dropped 34 percent to ...
Over 100 migrants rescued, two die and 14 missing in Mediterranean; France clears camp
At least two people died and 14 were missing Tuesday after a boat filled with people hoping to reach Europe capsized near Tunisia. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, a rescue ship picked up 109 people from two flimsy boats off the coast of Libya within hours ...
A top U.N. investigator said Tuesday "it's still an open-ended question" about how much Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be implicated in human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims. Marzuki Darusman said it was "probably the case" that Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace prize ...
600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar are at 'serious risk of genocide,' U.N. warns
Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide," U.N. investigators said Monday, warning that repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible." The fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council, last ...
Ocean Viking set to resume migrant rescues off Libya after 82 disembark in Italy
Charity rescue vessel Ocean Viking was on Sunday preparing to return to rescuing shipwreck survivors off Libya after disembarking 82 migrants in Italy following a reversal of government policy in Rome. Italian authorities identified and carried out medical checks on the sub-Saharan African migrants after ...
El Salvador sends police and soldiers to border in deal with U.S. to curb migrants and traffickers
El Salvador is deploying 800 police and soldiers to patrol blind spots along its borders where migrant smugglers and transnational criminals operate. Justice and Public Safety Minister Rogelio Rivas said Thursday that the contingent will be joined by about 300 immigration agents. It will target ...
Bangladesh's Hasina blames Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation failure
Bangladesh's prime minister has blamed Myanmar for the failure of a recent attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees, saying its neighboring country did not do enough to win the community's trust. The comments from Sheikh Hasina came three weeks after a fresh push to return the ...
U.S. Supreme Court action on asylum rule slammed as 'death sentence' for migrants
The U.S. Supreme Court's clearing of the way for the Trump administration to deny nearly all asylum claims from Central Americans was denounced by immigration advocates as a "death sentence" for the many migrants trying to escape poverty and violence in their homelands. The new ...
A humanitarian ship carrying 84 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea appealed to Italian and Maltese authorities Wednesday for the medical evacuation of a 9 months pregnant woman and a safe place of disembarkation for the other passengers. The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run jointly by ...
Charity ship takes on 34 migrants off Libya and rejects port
A group of 34 migrants that included a pregnant woman and a small child safely moved during a thunderstorm from a charity-operated sailboat responsible for their rescue to a larger humanitarian ship in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya. Wrapped in shiny thermal blankets, 22 ...
