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Powerful Eye Contact Project Aims to Break Down Barriers With Refugees

“Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

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Migrant rescue from capsized boat is caught on camera

The capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea has been caught on camera by the Italian Navy.

Germany

Germany's carrot and stick approach to refugee integration

German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented her government’s new refugee integration law on Wednesday after a coalition summit in Meseberg in eastern…

Italy

Overcrowded fishing boat capsizes off Italian coast, 500 migrants rescued

The Italian navy has released distressing images of an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending hundreds of migrants tumbling into the…

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IOM says fewer migrants dying on Mediterranean route to Europe

“If we fail at this, we fail at everything” Chief of the International Organization for Migration William Lacy Swing said at the World Humanitarian Summit in…

Turkey

World Humanitarian Summit calls for shift of emphasis from response to prevention of refugee crisis

Turkey has been much of the focus of the refugee crisis and now at the first World Humanitarian Summit the two day programme is hoping the talking and discussion will lead to priority action

Greece

Idomeni: Greece says operation to clear camp going smoothly

An operation to clear Europe’s biggest makeshift refugee camp is progressing without problems, Greek officials say.

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Greece begins evacuation of Idomeni refugee camp

Greek authorities on Tuesday began a dawn operation to gradually evacuate the country’s largest informal refugee camp at Idomeni on the Macedonian…

My Europe Series

In pursuit of the American dream

Euronews travels to Arizona and Texas to find out how successive waves of migrants have fared.

My Europe Series

Which US city welcomes the most refugees?

Euronews travels to the Lone Star State to find out how even there, the story of immigration has not run smoothly.

My Europe Series

Immigration: how do the US and EU compare?

Amid election talk of legislative reform on both sides of the Atlantic, is immigration becoming a political football?

My Europe Series

American dream? The reality of starting a new life stateside

Alma Telibecirevic, from Sarajevo, is looking to live the American dream.

Syria

People smuggling worth up to $6 billion last year: Interpol

Libya

Libya coast guard rescues more than 100 migrants from Africa

Libya’s coast guard said it intercepted a dinghy carrying more than 100 African migrants on Monday (May 16). Matza Samwe, a migrant from Nigeria

World News

EU slammed for 'lack of vision' in migrant crisis response

The EU is facing further criticism over its handling of the migrant crisis. The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, is reported to

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

Italy

More refugees now arriving in Italy than in Greece

A thousand people rescued at sea were set to land in Italy on Friday. For the first time in a year, more refugees and migrants are arriving there than in Greece.

Greece

Abandoned life jackets in Lesbos giving new hope to refugees

Life jackets are a poignant symbol of the refugee crisis in Greece. Thousands of them which had been abandoned on the beaches of Lesbos are now

Germany

Merkel at centre of refugee row in rival Berlin rallies

Far-right and populist protesters marched through Berlin on Saturday to demand that Chancellor Angela Merkel step down for allowing more than a

Germany

Syrian refugee wants to change the world through pictures