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4/20/2023 11:52:18 AM
One man died and 47 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, the coast guard said Thursday.
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4/16/2023 1:13:25 PM
Four migrants and a suspected trafficker, all from Syria, died Saturday and six were others injured when their car collided head-on with another as it sped the wrong way on a major highway in Greece near the Turkish border, police said.
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4/14/2023 7:27:28 PM
Moroccan security forces on Friday foiled an attempt by 150 sub-Saharan African migrants to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and arrested 70 people, local authorities said.
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4/13/2023 5:22:41 PM
Tunisia has recovered 14 bodies of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the Mediterranean, bringing to 24 the number of dead after their boat headed for Europe sank, the coastguard said Thursday.
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4/12/2023 4:17:59 PM
Ten migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned off Tunisia after their boat sank while trying to reach Europe, the coastguard said Wednesday, with at least 20 more reported missing.
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4/12/2023 2:22:28 PM
January to March 2023 was the deadliest quarter for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean since 2017, the United Nations said Wednesday, with 441 lives lost while attempting to reach Europe.
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Africa
4/12/2023 11:26:46 AM
A long line of people appears in silhouette, walking along the flat desert in northern Niger. The strong walkers are at the front. The weakest at the rear. Every week hundreds more migrants thrown out of Algeria end up here in Assamaka, the first village on the Niger border.
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4/11/2023 10:49:49 PM
Italy’s right-wing government on Tuesday declared a six-month national state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country’s southern shores.
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4/11/2023 8:25:52 PM
Tunisian police used tear gas on Tuesday to disperse homeless black migrants who have been protesting outside a United Nations office to demand evacuation following incendiary comments by President Kais Saied.
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4/10/2023 3:09:30 PM
At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday.
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4/8/2023 6:29:22 PM
Twenty migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were missing after their boat sank off Tunisia's coast in an attempt to reach Europe, a spokesman for the court that investigates such cases said Saturday.
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4/7/2023 7:51:08 PM
Tunisia's coastguard said Friday it had intercepted over 14,000 migrants trying to reach Europe from January to March, more than five times the number of those who attempted the trip in the first quarter of 2022.
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Egypt
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4/6/2023 9:32:10 PM
The charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rescued on Tuesday 440 irregular migrants from a fishing boat drifting in the international waters near Malta.
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International
3/31/2023 10:15:10 PM
Mexico’s president promised to visit hospitals treating injured migrants in the border city of Ciudad Juarez Friday, where 39 men died in a immigration detention center fire late Monday.
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International
3/30/2023 1:57:23 PM
Europe's top rights body on Thursday blasted the "inhuman" treatment of migrants who were brutally turned away at its borders, especially the EU's external frontier.
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International
3/28/2023 3:05:02 PM
A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention center near the U.S. border left more than three dozen migrants dead, a government agency said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest incidents ever at an immigration lockup in the country.
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3/27/2023 6:09:56 PM
Tunisia on Monday called for a "constructive discourse" from the European Union after a string of leaders warned the country is facing a crisis that could impact the 27-member bloc.
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3/27/2023 1:33:19 PM
A new immigration bill in the UK that aims to stop migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats from France is "incompatible" with Britain's international obligations, Europe's top rights body said on Monday.
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World
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3/26/2023 3:56:26 PM
Tunisia's coastguard said Sunday the bodies of 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries had been recovered after three vessels capsized.
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World
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International
3/18/2023 9:53:44 PM
Pope Francis on Saturday greeted thousands of refugees brought to Europe by Christian charities, recognising their difficult journeys and hailing their desire to "live free from fear and insecurity".
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