World
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International
6/22/2023 7:31:26 PM
Spanish authorities rescued nearly 170 migrants from three boats drifting off the Canary Islands overnight on Wednesday, hours after at least two people died when their packed dinghy sank in the area.
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World
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Region
6/19/2023 10:48:53 PM
France announced on Monday nearly 26 million euros (around $28 million) in aid to Tunisia to help curb the flow of irregular migrants across the Mediterranean.
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World
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International
6/18/2023 6:27:14 PM
The number of people arriving in the UK in small boats has reached over 10,000 since the start of the year, UK government figures showed Sunday.
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World
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International
6/18/2023 6:08:30 PM
Pakistan authorities arrested 10 alleged human traffickers on Sunday, days after hundreds of migrants were feared drowned off the Greek coast.
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World
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Region
6/18/2023 4:06:56 PM
Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea, traveling Sunday for talks with the president and their counterpart in Tunisia, a major North African stepping stone for migrants trying to reach Europe at risk of their lives.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/17/2023 12:07:51 PM
Egypt mourns with great sadness and sorrow the victims whose boat sank off the Greek coast en route from Libya to Europe on Wednesday carrying hundreds of irregular migrants of different nationalities, including Egyptians.
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World
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International
6/16/2023 2:45:06 PM
Greek rescuers on Friday scanned the Ionian Sea by air and boat for survivors of a migrant boat sinking, as hope faded of finding more people alive two days after the disaster.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/16/2023 2:41:22 PM
Nine Egyptians have been arrested on suspicion of being people smugglers after a migrant boat disaster off the coast of Greece claimed at least 78 lives, a port source told AFP Thursday.
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World
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International
6/14/2023 9:03:00 PM
At least 79 migrants died after their fishing boat sank off the Peloponnese, Greece's coastguard said Wednesday, as fears mounted that the death toll could rise much higher.
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 6:16:16 PM
Last year was the deadliest for migrants in the Middle East and North Africa since 2017, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 12:07:41 PM
EU interior ministers meeting Thursday looked to reach an agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's rules to more equally share the hosting of asylum seekers and migrants.
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World
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International
6/7/2023 6:56:45 PM
Greek officials have launched a series of high-level contacts with the newly elected government in Turkey in an effort to counter a surge in attempted crossings by migrants over a river that divides the two countries.
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World
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Region
5/18/2023 2:11:31 PM
Turkey's opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-nationalist who helped push last weekend's presidential vote to a runoff.
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World
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International
5/17/2023 8:46:51 PM
A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though some already have been freed, Mexico's president said Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/16/2023 11:19:47 PM
Migration will likely increase for demographic, economic, climatic, and geopolitical reasons, and origin, destination, and transit countries should plan for it to optimise its benefits and minimise its costs, writes Mahmoud Mohieldin
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World
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International
5/13/2023 12:00:53 PM
The U.S. turned the page on pandemic-era immigration restrictions with relative calm at its border with Mexico as migrants adapted to strict new rules aimed at discouraging illegal crossings and awaited the promise of new legal pathways for entering the country.
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World
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International
5/10/2023 1:33:19 PM
President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that the US-Mexico border would be “chaotic for a while" when pandemic-related restrictions end, as 550 active-duty troops began arriving and migrants weighed whether or when to cross.
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World
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Region
5/9/2023 11:32:04 AM
For Nidal Jumaa, a Syrian from Aleppo, life in Turkey is tough. He works part-time at a furniture workshop and collects plastics and cardboard from trash cans that he sells for recycling, but can hardly afford the rent for his run-down house in a low-income neighborhood of Ankara.
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World
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International
5/8/2023 11:03:09 AM
At least eight people were killed and several others injured on Sunday when an SUV ran a red light and plowed into a group waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant aid center in the US state of Texas, police said.
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World
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International
4/30/2023 10:23:42 AM
Thousands of people, including many undocumented migrants, marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte.
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