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Italy

More than a dozen dead after migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean

More than a dozen people have died after a crowded boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean late on Sunday.

Libya

UNHCR in Libya Part 4: The detention centres - the map and the stories

In February 2019, the Libyan government revealed that there were 23 detention centres operating in Libya, holding over 5,000 asylum seekers. While they are officially run by the government, in reality it is Libya’s complex patchwork of militias that are in control.

Libya

UNHCR in Libya Part 3: Former staffer blows whistle on favouritism

Euronews has been able to speak under the condition of anonymity with a former Libyan UNHCR staffer who has been working in Tripoli.

Libya

Migrants in detention centres ask: 'Why does UNHCR keep us in prison?'

The UN agency has been accused of being a “fig leaf” for the policy of externalisation of EU borders; critics argue that UNHCR action is Libya is uneffective. We asked migrants held in detention centres their opinion.

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Libya

Who are the UNHCR really working to help - refugees or states?

Euronews has undertaken an investigation into the UNHCR's operation in Libya, where tens of thousands of migrants live in detainment camps, hoping to make it to Europe.

World

Angry protests at 'power keg' migrant camp over deadly fire

Tensions are high after the blaze at the vast and overcrowded Moira camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos.

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Migrant rescue boat receives permission to dock at Italian isle

Migrants aboard a charity rescue ship celebrated after the vessel received permission Saturday to sail to the Italian island of Lampedusa.

14 September 2019

World

'Brexit is failure of Britain, not the European Union,' says Juncker

Jean-Claude Juncker, the outgoing President of the European Commission, has said Brexit is a "tragedy" and a "failure" but it is "the failure of Britain, not the European Union." He also said the UK had only ever been "part-time Europeans".

12 September 2019

Spain

Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete honoured for migrant rescue

The German captain of the migrant rescue ship, Sea-Watch 3, which defied an Italian government ban and docked at Lampedusa, has been honoured for her stance by the Catalan Government.

11 September 2019

Turkey

Turkey's Erdogan threatens to 'open the gates' for migrants to Europe

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will "open the gates" for migrants to Europe if international support for a refugee safe zone in northern Syria fails to materialise.

5 September 2019

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Aid ship enters Italian waters without permission

A video released by Markus Rinderspacher, the Bavarian state parliament vice-president, shows the tense exchange between the mission-Lifeline captain and the port authorities in Pozzallo.

2 September 2019

World

Hundreds of people continue to head to Greece from Turkey each week

On the Greece's Aegean coast, 13 migrant boats carrying a total of 546 people arrived on the island of Lesbos in the space of about an hour on Thursday last week.

2 September 2019

Greece

Watch back: Rare look inside 'jungle' at Europe’s largest migrant camp

Watch back: Rare look inside 'jungle' at Europe’s largest migrant camp

1 September 2019

Germany

Syrian man given 9.5-year jail term over deadly stabbing in Chemnitz

Syrian man given 9.5-year jail term over deadly stabbing in Chemnitz

World

Médecins Sans Frontières say migrants onboard 'completely exhausted'

Médecins Sans Frontières says of the 103 children under the age of 18 now onboard, only 11 of them are accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Europe News

The Brief: European Commission laments the Open Arms situation

EU welcomes six European countries accepting migrants from Open Arms ship, calls situation in Mediterranean 'untenable'

Italy

Open Arms captain demands evacuation, says ship is like a ticking bomb

The captain of the Open Arms rescue ship says migrants onboard are "psychologically broken" and the vessel is like a bomb that is "going to explode."

The Cube

Twitter reunites ex-refugee with kind stranger who gifted her a bike

As a five-year-old, Mevan Babakar found herself living in a refugee camp in the Netherlands, and vividly recalls being gifted a bike by a camp worker. Years later, she took to Twitter to find him.

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More than 500 rescued migrants on two NGO ships remain stranded

More than 500 rescued migrants on two NGO ships remain stranded

World

More than 500 migrants remain stranded on ships in the Mediterranean

Two boats carrying more than 500 migrants remain stranded in the Mediterranean after Italy and Malta refused to allow them to dock.