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March 28, 2019

Malta armed forces seize tanker hijacked by migrants

Migrants hijacked a cargo ship that had rescued them in the Mediterranean Sea, forcing the crew to set a course for Europe, the governments of Italy and Malta said Wednesday.

January 24, 2019

Italy refuses to accept migrants on NGO rescue boat, says it should go to France instead

Italy’s nationalist-populist government on Thursday told an NGO migrant rescue boat that it would be refused entry to Italy’s shores, and directed it to France instead -- the latest in an escalating feud between the two countries.

January 22, 2019

Italy’s Salvini slams France for migrant crisis: ‘I don’t take lessons on humanity and generosity from Macron’

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini accused France on Tuesday of destabilizing and impoverishing parts of Africa and subsequently fueling the migration crisis -- the latest in a diplomatic spat between the two countries.

January 21, 2019

Ecuador to clamp down on immigration controls after Venezuelan migrant murders pregnant girlfriend

Ecuador is putting new immigration controls in-place amid the ongoing Venezuela migration crisis after a Venezuelan man slaughtered his pregnant Ecuadorian girlfriend on Saturday.

January 12, 2019

Thousands of migrants set up camps in Paris as authorities scramble to cope

France's capital is facing another migrant crisis as more than 2000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East are now sleeping in the open in Paris, according to French media -- less than a year after embattled President Emmanuel Macron’s government evacuated makeshift camps around the capital.

January 10, 2019

Split emerges in Italy’s populist government over accepting rescued migrants

A split emerged in Italy’s populist government Tuesday after Italian right-wing leader and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini attacked an E.U. plan, approved by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to send about a dozen rescued migrants to Italy -- although Salvini later agreed to let them enter.

January 2, 2019

UK arrests 2 accused of moving migrants illegally

British authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested two people in Manchester, England on suspicion of arranging the illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into the U.K.

November 4, 2018

Almost 60,000 migrants deemed dead or missing on dangerous journeys since 2014, study finds

While global migration levels are currently at an unprecedented high – characterized by graphic images of refugees on the run in the Middle East, caravans traversing Central America and flimsy boats from Africa capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea – far less confronting is the silent toll of those who never make it a border, those who die or disappear on often-dangerous expeditions.

September 19, 2018

Europe’s migration ‘fixes’ trigger disgusting humanitarian crises

European leaders are changing their course as their efforts to curb migration have triggered what the U.N. and other groups condemn as massive humanitarian failures. Deeply divided over how and where to control Europe’s borders, leaders met Wednesday in a summit in Austria.

September 10, 2018

Sweden joins Europe's move to right over migration backlash

Sweden has become the latest European country to have its political order shaken by a backlash against large-scale immigration, with voters giving a boost to a far-right party and weakening the more established ones.