Yemen

Truce comes into force in Yemen, but concern remains about ongoing fighting

A truce to allow for humanitarian aid to be distributed in Yemen has officially come into force, but there are concerns about ongoing fighting

12/05/2015

Nepal

Deadly new quake in Nepal adds to misery for exhausted residents

At least 40 people are dead in the latest 7.3 magnitude tremor and hundreds more have been injured

12/05/2015

Nepal

Panic in Kathmandu and New Delhi as new quake strikes

The new earthquake sent people in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu running out into open ground. They had already been staying in temporary housing and

12/05/2015

Yemen

Yemen humanitarian truce under threat from intense border clashes

As the Saudi military reinforces security along the border with Yemen, Morocco reports that one of its fighter jets has gone missing over the

11/05/2015

Nepal

Nepal: 2% loans for destroyed homes, earthquake survivors brace for monsoon

The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake more than two weeks ago has passed 8,000 and the injured are nearly 18,000. The government is overwhelmed

11/05/2015

Nepal

Nepal: Miracle rescues of teenager and baby bring joy amid earthquake tragedy

After five days under the rubble of Nepal’s earthquake, a teenager has been pulled out alive. Hopes were fading of finding more survivors after

30/04/2015

Nepal

Providing post-disaster relief: euronews speaks to Handicap International in Nepal

Following the devastation caused by the Nepal earthquake, euronews spoke to Handicap International, to find out more about the rescue efforts in the

28/04/2015

Nepal

Nepal death toll rises: UN announces 8 million affected by earthquake

A race against time in the search for survivors: as the death toll rises, the UN announces eight million people are affected by the Nepal earthquake.

28/04/2015

Italy

Fears that 30,000 migrants could die crossing Mediterranean in 2015

A dire warning has been issued as survivors of Sunday’s shipwreck arrived in Sicily, after a disaster that left up to 900 people dead. It is feared

21/04/2015

World News

More Mediterranean deaths as desperate migrants head to Europe

The first bodies have been brought ashore of the hundreds feared killed on Sunday in the deadliest shipwreck involving migrants trying to reach

20/04/2015

Europe News

EU sets up migrant task force

European ministers have put forward a 10-point plan in response to the ongoing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. It includes boosting EU search

20/04/2015

World

Migrant crisis: What options does Europe have?

Another hulk vessel in which hundreds drowned lies on the Mediterranean Sea bed. The latest loss of migrants’ lives is the worst since October 2013

20/04/2015

World News

Migrants accept death risk, enrich Mediterranean traffickers

Hundreds of immigrant survivors of desperate Mediterranean crossings fill the Lampedusa reception centre. They are among the rising thousands who

20/04/2015

Italy

EU under pressure to prevent Mediterranean Sea deaths

As news broke of another migrant ship sinking off the Greek island of Rhodes an Italian patrol ship docked in Malta. The corpses of 24 people

20/04/2015

Europe News

EU in crisis meeting over migrant deaths

European ministers are holding a crisis meeting after more than 700 migrants drowned this weekend while attempting to reach the Italian shore.

20/04/2015

Europe News

EU urged to change course over world's deadliest sea crossing

After yet more lives lost in the Mediterranean sea, human rights activists are demanding the EU changes course on its migration and asylum policies

16/04/2015

Kenya

UNHCR mulls Kenya's call to close Dadaab camp for Somali refugees

The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing

12/04/2015

My Europe Series

Europe faces renewed calls to ease Syrian refugee mega-crisis

Europe must do more to help Syrians escape the country’s brutal civil war, says the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In an interview

09/04/2015

My Europe Series

All at sea: Europe's struggle to cope with growing migrant crisis

Thousands of desperate migrants continue to undertake the relatively short but highly dangerous voyage from north Africa to southern Europe

01/04/2015

Chad

Nigerian refugees bear terror trauma from Boko Haram

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) has deployed an emergency team to Chad. The NGO is helping an estimated 18,300 refugees and

01/04/2015