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Italy

Afghan teenager travels 400km strapped to bottom of truck

An Afghan teenager, reportedly 16-years-old, has been found strapped to the bottom of a truck, after apparently travelling for around 400 kilometres.

Italy

Hundreds rescued from overcrowded migrant boats in Med

More than 300 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea after migrant boats capsized off the coast of Libya.

Greece

Identifying the nameless dead in the migrant crisis

Thousands of migrants, many of them refugees, have died nameless and unknown after perishing at sea trying to reach Europe; efforts are underway to try to identify them.

Greece

Greece plans new migrant facilities amid claims of 'dirty' and 'unsafe' conditions

Greece is reported to be planning new shelters, to help ease increasing pressure on overcrowded migrant camps.

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Turkey

Austria calls Turkey-EU refugee deal a faltering 'house of cards'

The deal to send back to Turkey the migrants reaching Europe's shores is a house of cards falling apart, according to Austria's foreign minister.

Italy

Migrants in limbo on Italian-French border

A dispute between Italy and France over the movement of migrants has resulted in a stand off at the border between the two countries.

Italy

Migrants in the Med: 'Over 8,000' rescued in five days

As many as 8,300 migrants have been plucked from the Mediterranean in the last five days according to Italian authorities, as more bodies washed ashore in Libya.

Germany

Police claim evidence linking Ansbach bomber to ISIL

The German authorities claim to have found a video in which the suspected Ansbach bomber pledges allegiance to ISIL militants.

Italy

Italy new 'frontline' in Europe's refugee crisis, warns Frontex chief

Italy is once again on the ‘frontline’ of Europe’s refugee crisis, replacing Greece, the head of the EU’s border agency has said.

Austria

25km-long traffic queue between Hungary and Austria

The hold-up is due to ad-hoc checks by the Austrian authorities, who have strengthened measures to curb the flow of migrants into the country.

Italy

At least 5,000 migrants rescued from Mediterranean in one day - Coast Guard

At least 5,000 migrants were rescued in 43 operations across the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday (June 23), the Italian Coast Guard reports.

World News

No jail for 'illegal' migrants, says EU court's chief legal advisor

EU member states may not imprison undocumented refugees and migrants for merely entering the Schengen zone.

Libya

Migrants in the Med: Over 100 more bodies wash up on Libyan coast

Familiar scenes as bodies are recovered from the beach close to Libyan coastal city of Zuwara as numbers of boats making the crossing to Italy surge.

Europe News

Slovakia set for EU presidency

Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico is back at work after a heart scare.

World News

700 may have perished in the Mediterranean last week - UNHCR

Hundreds feared lost after three boats sink off the coast of Libya, the situation is described as "chaotic".

Turkey

Germany's Merkel tells Turkey to meet all terms for visa-free travel

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Turkey it must fulfill all the conditions set by the EU before its citizens get visa free travel to the…

Austria

Austria on a far-right path

Austria’s presidential election second-round runoff takes place on Sunday (May 22).

Greece

Clashes in Idomeni as migrant frustration boils over

There have been more violent clashes over night between police and migrants in the tent city that has been created on Greece’s northern border with the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

Italy

Tough sentences demanded for suspected people smugglers

Prosecutors in Sicily have demanded an 18-year jail sentence for a man accused of captaining an overloaded migrant boat that sank in April. Up to 800

Germany

Germany moves to speed up deportation of failed North African asylum seekers

Germany is set to make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers to North Africa. Its lower house of parliament has approved a draft law declaring