Paris authorities began an operation early on Friday (Nov 4) to clear more than 3,000 migrants from a camp in the north-east of the French capital.
At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday (Nov 3).
Hundreds of migrants carrying suitcases and bundles of possessions have queued outside Calais to be resettled as the French government started clearing a makeshift camp known as the "Jungle".
More than 1,000 migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea to Europe landed Italy Saturday after being rescued by the European Union rescue team and the Italian Red Cross in a 24-hour operation.
European Union officials were due to inaugurate the new task force at the Kapitan-Andreevo checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the main land frontier via which migrants try to enter the bloc to avoid the dangerous Mediterranean sea crossing.
Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said.
Families of migrants to Australia will be able to apply for a five-year temporary residency visa, in a move set to reduce decade-long wait list for families seeking a permanent residency visa, the Australian government has announced.
A boat carrying up to 450 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off Egypt’s north coast on Wednesday, drowning 42 people and prompting a search operation that rescued 163 passengers, officials said.
Thousands of migrants were forced to flee to safety when their camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was badly damaged in a fire apparently set on purpose, police said.
The Greek government reiterated a call to the EU to quickly help relocate thousands of refugees and migrants currently living in overcrowded reception centers on the Aegean Sea islands, as new clashes among refugees broke out on early Monday inside Moria hot spot on Lesvos island.
Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
Washington is seeking closer coordination with several Latin American countries to tackle a jump in migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East who it believes are trying to reach the United States from the south on an arduous route by plane, boat and through jungle on foot.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is expected to adopt an agreement on globally resolving issues on refugees and migrants at a high-level meeting to be held on Sept. 19, UNGA President Mogens Lykketoft said on Tuesday.
With nothing to mark the point where one country ends and another begins, there is little sign of the border between the United Kingdom and Ireland, a frontier that was once controlled by military checkpoints.
Some 2,856 migrants and refugees have drowned this year crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) indicated on Friday.
Migrants in Germany committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes in the first quarter of 2016, according to a police report that could raise unease, especially among anti-immigrant groups, about Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal migrant policy.
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