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12/27/2022 10:03:46 AM
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said Monday.
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12/26/2022 3:53:08 PM
A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp.
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12/25/2022 10:46:38 PM
After fleeing violence in their Guatemalan town, but with their way to relatives in California blocked by continuing U.S. asylum restrictions, a family of 15 joined an Advent candlelight ceremony organized by their shelter just south of the border.
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12/21/2022 5:00:20 PM
Migrants along the U.S. border with Mexico sought shelter from the cold early Wednesday as restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum in the U.S. remained in place beyond their anticipated end.
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Foreign Affairs
12/18/2022 9:28:57 PM
Egypt is tackling the migrant issue with a comprehensive approach that takes into account the development dimension and addresses the root causes of irregular migration, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
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12/18/2022 1:04:35 PM
Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
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11/24/2022 2:37:00 PM
"Unprecedented" world events including the war in Ukraine are driving record numbers of people to move to Britain, statisticians said Thursday, even as ministers vow to clamp down on post-Brexit immigration.
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11/22/2022 7:11:02 PM
A dilapidated fishing boat crammed with hundreds of migrants that lost its steering and had been drifting in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Greek island of Crete has been successfully towed to port, Greek authorities said Tuesday.
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11/22/2022 2:58:00 PM
A boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants was towed to safety Tuesday to the Greek island of Crete after a dramatic rescue complicated by near gale-force winds, the coastguard said.
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11/15/2022 5:55:18 PM
France has rejected asylum applications from 44 of the 234 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking NGO ship, who will be returned to their country of origin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday.
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11/12/2022 10:24:24 PM
Tensions over migration flared between EU countries on Saturday after people on board a rescue ship turned back by Italy disembarked in France.
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11/11/2022 10:47:41 AM
A rescue ship carrying 230 migrants docked at the French southern military port of Toulon on Friday, maritime authorities said, amid a French-Italian row over which country is responsible for them.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/9/2022 11:33:38 PM
Egyptian Embassy in Athens has been in contact with Egyptian authorities to facilitate performing DNA tests to families of irregular migrants who drowned in Athens to help identify the victims and bring their bodies back home for burial.
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11/6/2022 1:36:01 PM
Italian authorities prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily on Sunday as Italy's far-right-led government takes a hard line against privately operated maritime rescue ships in Italian waters.
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11/5/2022 6:12:53 PM
Two German-run migrant rescue ships carrying nearly 300 rescued people were waiting off the eastern coast of Sicily on Saturday, one with permission to disembark its most vulnerable migrants while the other's request for a safe port has gone unanswered despite ``critical'' conditions on board.
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11/3/2022 9:17:33 PM
A French parliament session was thrown into turmoil Thursday after a far-right MP was accused of yelling "back to Africa" to a black colleague posing a question on migrant arrivals to the government.
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11/1/2022 7:50:55 PM
A major search and rescue operation was underway Tuesday for dozens of migrants reported missing after the overloaded sailing boat they were on capsized and sank in stormy weather overnight off an island near the Greek capital, authorities said.
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World
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10/31/2022 7:41:09 PM
British politicians from both opposition and governing parties on Monday demanded the Conservative government improve conditions at an overcrowded facility for migrants, described by an independent inspector as "wretched.''
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10/26/2022 9:23:35 PM
Moroccan police said Wednesday they had broken up a people smuggling gang in a northern town near the site of a deadly border tragedy in June.
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10/24/2022 8:02:07 PM
In nearly every corner of the globe, people are spending more on food and fuel, rent and transportation.
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