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10/15/2022 11:00:38 PM
Greek authorities on Saturday accused Turkey of forcing 92 migrants to cross into Greece and stripping them naked before doing so.
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International
10/9/2022 3:15:55 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe's indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary whose work and life paths illustrated the difficulties faced by 19th Century Italian emigrants.
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International
10/8/2022 3:23:52 PM
The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece have once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route, the risks migrants and refugees are willing to take and the political infighting that has thwarted a safe European response to people fleeing war, poverty and climate change.
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10/8/2022 1:59:08 PM
As dawn breaks over the Mediterranean, Tunisian coastguards intercept a flimsy craft packed with migrants, bringing their dream of reaching Europe to an end -- for now.
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International
9/25/2022 2:00:40 PM
Pope Francis traveled to southern Italy on Sunday to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy's national election, and delivered a message that hit on key domestic campaign issues including immigration.
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9/24/2022 9:55:38 PM
Seventeen bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, raising the overall toll to 94, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean's deadliest such episodes.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/24/2022 8:36:08 PM
Egypt has offered its sincere condolences to Lebanon, Palestine and Syria over the death of tens of irregular migrants after their boat sank off the Syrian coast on Friday.
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9/24/2022 11:59:19 AM
Eighty-six bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, state media said Saturday, in one of the deadliest recent such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.
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9/23/2022 4:21:47 PM
The death toll from a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon that sank in Syrian waters has risen to at least 73, state TV quoted Syria's health minister as saying on Friday.
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9/20/2022 4:17:17 PM
Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating adrift 203 kilometers (126 miles) west of the island nation, a Cypriot official said Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/14/2022 9:41:02 PM
Greece on Wednesday rejected claims by neighboring Turkey that six migrants including two children drowned at sea after being pushed back by Greek officers this week.
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9/13/2022 4:17:41 PM
More than 13,000 irregular Tunisian migrants have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, almost a fifth of them minors, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/7/2022 1:35:17 PM
An Egyptian marine ship bound for France rescued 60 migrants stranded on a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport (HCMLT) on Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/4/2022 3:44:49 PM
Greece has blocked over 150,000 undocumented migrants on its land and maritime border so far this year, the migration minister said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
8/29/2022 8:16:23 PM
A boat carrying Egyptian migrants capsized off Libya's coast, leaving two people dead and 19 more missing and presumed dead, the Libyan agency that combats illegal migration said Monday, in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.
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World
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Africa
8/24/2022 3:50:03 PM
Godwin risked everything for a better life in Europe, but he was detained and ransomed in Libya by European Union-backed authorities.
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World
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8/15/2022 10:09:04 PM
Authorities in western Libya said they rounded up dozens of migrants Monday in the capital of Tripoli, in the latest crackdown on migrants in the conflict-ridden country.
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Region
8/13/2022 5:56:37 PM
Libyan authorities said Saturday they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan, the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe via perilous journeys through the conflict-wrecked nation.
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World
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8/10/2022 11:00:47 AM
Greek authorities say a major search and rescue operation has been launched east of the island of Karpathos after a boat reportedly carrying dozens of migrants sank during the night.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/7/2022 3:14:21 PM
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has estimated the number of migrants and host community members in Egypt at 9,115,929 million from 133 countries, according to a statement released on Sunday.
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