After a flurry of boat departures that sent hundreds of migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, survivors told police they had been kept for weeks on one meal a day in holding houses near the Libyan shore.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that at least 880 people died the previous week trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday.
A total of 16 suspected human traffickers brought to Italy as part of a group of migrants rescued at sea were arrested in Italy's Sicily on Tuesday for aiding illegal immigration, local media reported.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday announced a plan to build a refugee camp, the first in the French capital, to welcome hundreds of people who fled war and poverty in their native countries.
They say they have no hope of stepping onto the city's housing ladder and it is getting more difficult to earn a decent wage.
Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea.
Greece has begun evacuating thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.
The Costa Rican police arrested 18 illegal Cuban migrants on Saturday afternoon, the La Nacion daily reported Sunday.
The violent entry into Costa Rica Wednesday by at least 1,000 U.S.-bound Cuban migrants stranded in Panama has sparked condemnation from regional countries on the United States' Cuba policy.
Tensions flared across organized reception camps and makeshift tent cities in Greece on Wednesday, as thousands of refugees and migrants protested against readmissions to Turkey which started on Monday as part of the EU-Turkey agreement aiming to curb the influx into Europe.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday discussed over phone the implementation of the recent European Union (EU)-Turkey agreement on migrants, the Downing Street said.
More than a quarter of all living Australians were born overseas -- the highest proportion in more than 120 years -- according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday.
The EU summit on Thursday and Friday aims to reach a new, upgraded agreement with Turkey to tackle the migration crisis, the EU said Wednesday.
Last fall, soccer fans celebrated refugee children at a legendary Munich stadium; today, European voters are boosting anti-immigrant political parties and governments are closing their gates to new arrivals. The refrain of Europe's migrant crisis has changed from "welcome" to "enough already."
European Council President Donald Tusk currently was embarking on a shuttle diplomacy, touring some countries on the migrant routes to seek a consensus on handling the ongoing migration crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended her open-door policy for migrants, rejecting any limit on the number of refugees allowed into her country despite divisions within her government.
The Administrative Court in Lille, north France upheld the decision to evacuate thousands of migrants camping in Calais, rejecting NGOs request to halt the eviction's order, Pas-de Calais prefecture said on Thursday.
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