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Mediterranean still claiming migrant lives

Migrant deaths continue to mount

Italy

Italy and Spain rescue more than 1,000 stranded migrants in two days

Warm weather provides optimum conditions at sea for migrants trying to reach European shores

$Finland avoids government collapse, Finns Party fractures after shift to far-right$

Finland

Finland avoids government collapse, Finns Party fractures after shift to far-right

The election of hard-line anti-immigrant leaders to the nationalist Finns Party, the country’s second-largest, lead to its fracture with moderate party MPs siding with Prime Minister Juha Sipila.

Greece

Quake kills woman, ravages houses on Greek island of Lesbos

A middle-aged woman died crushed by the roof of her home. Several more people were injured.

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Germany

Merkel urges more investment, weapons for Africa

Germany is calling on Western nations to help Africa tackle the poverty and conflict driving migrants into Europe.

World News

Campaign in support of 'limbo' refugees

The #sickofwaiting says refugees have limited food, shelter and medical supplies

Italy

Massive migrant rescue off Italy as G7 ended

Italy

In 48 hours 5,000 migrants rescued from Mediterranean

There’s no let-up in the migrant influx to European shores.

Belgium

Belgian school language book for migrants causes offence

A Brussels school has revised a French language book designed to help asylum seekers integrate, after some phrases linked migrants to extremism.

Europe News

Hungary and Slovakia challenge EU's refugee quotas

Serious divisions emerge as Hungary and Slovakia tell the EU's top court that sharing out asylum-seekers in a quota system is unlawful.

Netherlands

Euroviews. Immigrant integration in Amsterdam. Tesfalem's story.

An opinion piece from Amsterdam's Mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, on the city's pioneering integration of immigrants

Italy

Italy: More than 200 migrants feared drowned this weekend

More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend trying to reach European shores, according to testimony from survivors.

World News

"Calais mon amour": how a National Front supporter fell in love with a migrant

The improbable story of how a French National Front supporter fell in love with an immigrant

Hungary

The EU's war of words with Hungary intensifies as Verhofstadt slams Orban in Parliament rant

It's the latest escalation in tensions between the EU and Hungary, which have simmered for months, and are now raging.

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Rescuers jump into water to rescue migrants

Migrants struggled to stay afloat in the Mediterranean during a rescue operation by the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station on Friday (April 14), as thousands were plucked from the sea in a singl

Greece

Greece's island refugee camps buckle under the strain

Greece is feeling the first wave of 2017's refugee harvest, but camps on its Aegean islands are already full and the country is ill-prepared to take any more people without help.

France

Fire sweeps through Dunkirk migrant camp

A huge fire has swept through a migrant camp near Dunkirk in northern France.

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Hundreds rescued in the Mediterranean sea

Some 700 migrants were rescued at sea on Wednesday by humanitarian groups operating rescue ships off the coast of Libya, said Italy’s coast guard.

Libya

16-year-old migrant survives sinking in which 146 are feared drowned

The Italian Coastguard says more than 1,100 migrants have been picked up at sea in the last two days. One body has been recovered.

Turkey

Children among migrants found drowned off Turkish coast

At least 11 people from Syria, including five children, are dead after their plastic boat sank off Turkey