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5/4/2022 10:25:36 PM
The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday.
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5/4/2022 5:25:11 PM
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused a powerful Libyan armed group of abuses against migrants and Tripoli residents.
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World
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International
4/29/2022 2:32:38 PM
More than 3,000 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean and Atlantic while trying to reach Europe last year -- double the toll from 2020, the United Nations said Friday.
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World
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Region
4/25/2022 8:58:22 PM
Funerals were held across northern Lebanon on Monday for seven people killed when a boat packed with migrants sank over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore.
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Region
4/24/2022 10:56:22 PM
Rights groups have breathed a sigh of relief at Marine Le Pen's failure to become French president, but warned against complacency and urged the victor, Emmanuel Macron, to fight racial profiling and discrimination against Muslims, and better protect migrants.
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Region
4/24/2022 8:21:00 PM
Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore.
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World
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Region
4/23/2022 11:37:33 PM
A boat carrying 60 migrants capsized Saturday night off the Lebanese coast, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was not immediately clear if there were any deaths.
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World
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Region
4/16/2022 9:11:49 PM
A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday. It was the second tragedy in less than a week involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe.
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World
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International
4/4/2022 10:51:06 AM
A group of migrants traveling by foot from southern Mexico to the United States disbanded Sunday, after Mexican authorities agreed to expedite immigration procedures following clashes.
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4/3/2022 1:26:53 PM
More than 90 people in an overcrowded boat drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, a prominent humanitarian group said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
4/2/2022 1:01:39 PM
Pope Francis said Saturday he is studying a possible visit to Kyiv and he blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a ``savage'' war. Speaking after his arrival in Malta, he delivered his most pointed and personalized denunciation yet of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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3/14/2022 1:24:33 PM
The president of Cyprus pledged Monday to make conditions at an overcrowded migrant reception camp ``more humane'' following criticism that living arrangements for more than 350 unaccompanied minors were inadequate.
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3/1/2022 1:33:35 PM
At least nine migrants died after their boat capsized off Tunisian coast, the Tunisian defense ministry said Tuesday.
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2/9/2022 11:00:45 PM
The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus' interior minister said Wednesday.
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Region
1/23/2022 10:29:56 AM
A group of migrants huddles beside a small, smoky fire inside an abandoned building in northern Serbia, the last moments of warmth before they set out into the driving snow toward the razor wire, cameras and sensors of Hungary's electrified border fence.
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1/22/2022 10:00:03 AM
Four people died after a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants on the Mediterranean Sea sank off Tunisia's coast, the Tunisian Defense Ministry said Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/19/2022 10:30:41 PM
Egypt’s Cairo International Centre for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) conducted this week a training course for South Sudanese officials on combating human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants.
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World
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International
1/19/2022 6:06:03 PM
Police in Italy, Albania and Greece on Wednesday arrested some 30 people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and migrants into the European Union from Turkey on yachts and other leisure vessels.
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World
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International
1/17/2022 4:12:20 PM
French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was convicted Monday of inciting racial hatred over 2020 comments he made about unaccompanied migrant children.
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World
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International
1/17/2022 11:02:22 AM
Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon embraced migrants and Russia and derided campaign rivals as he sought to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April's election with an unusual ‘immersive and olfactory’ rally.
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