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Turkey

Turks squeeze oranges in anti-Dutch protest

Turkey and the Netherlands are currently experiencing a tense diplomatic period, after Turkey’s foreign minister Cavusoglu was stopped from entering the Netherlands to attend a political…

Netherlands

All you need to know about the Netherlands' general election

He wants to halt Muslim immigration, close all mosques and ban a Koran that he compares to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

World News

Woman power and immigration - this week in pictures

People attend a rally calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye’s arrest in central Seoul, South Korea, March 10, 2017.

Mexico

Mexico slams US plans to separate undocumented migrant children from their parents

The gulf between Mexico and the USA grows wider.

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USA

Hawaii launches first legal challenge to Trump travel ban

Hawaii has become the first US state to request an emergency order halting President Donald Trump’s revised travel restrictions, or in the words of its attorney general, ‘Muslim Ban…

USA

Illegal immigration numbers fall across US-Mexican border

The number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico declined by 40 percent from January to February, according to government figures.

Europe News

Alarm in Brussels over new Hungary asylum law

Hungary’s hardline new asylum law has sent shockwaves through the European Parliament, with some MEPs calling for a plenary session to address it.

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Protest against revised travel ban in US

Chanting “No Trump!

Europe News

Greek mayors urge more help with migratory flows

The migration flows from Turkey to Greece were dramatically reduced after the EU- Turkey deal signed, local Greek officials said on Tuesday.

World News

Top EU court rules member states don't have to issue visas to refugees

The EU’s top court said on Tuesday that member states don’t have to admit people on humanitarian grounds, even if they are at risk of torture or inhumane…

USA

US housing secretary Carson compares slaves to immigrants

Ben Carson, President Trump's secretary for housing and urban development, has sparked outrage for comparing US African slaves to “immigrants”

Europe News

Protest held in support of refugees

A group of demonstrators on Monday held a protest in support of refugees close to the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

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Spanish NGO rescues 250 migrants at sea

More than 200 African migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast on Saturday by Proactiva Open Arms, a Spanish NGO.

Italy

More than a thousand migrants rescued in one day from the Mediterranean

Around 900 migrants have been rescued from flimsy boats in the Mediterranean. Coastguards says at one point, 10 separate search and rescue operations were underway.

Tunisia

Germany and Tunisia agree migrant deal

Angela Merkel says Tunisia has agreed to take back hundreds of its nationals whose asylum applications have been rejected by Germany. The German chancellor made the pledge during a visit to the Tunisi

Italy

Italy clears its "Great Ghetto" of migrants

Around one hundred police and firefighters have cleared the remaining 500 migrants from a shantytown between the towns of San Severo and Rignano Garganico in Italy.

World

Grobe's view: style trumps substance in Congressional address

Euronews' Washington correspondent Stefan Grobe gives his take on Donald Trump's first address to Congress

USA

Trump calls for "new chapter in American greatness" in first speech to Congress

Security, trade and immigration dominated President Donald Trump’s first address to both houses of Congress.

USA

Trump addresses Congress: immigrants denounce speech as 'Fear-mongering and divisive'

Many in Los Angeles’ large Latino community tuned in to see president Trump’s first primetime address to congress.

World News

Outcry as Britain deports grandmother after nearly 30 years in Britain

A Singapore woman, married to a British man for 27 years with two children and a grandchild has been deported for failing to satisfy residency requirements.