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Germany

What is 'secondary migration' and how do Germany plan to control it?

German police are to intensify border checks to stop non-EU migrants from illegally crossing into the country, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Sunday.

Europe News

Inside the Belgian church helping to welcome migrants to Europe

For thirty years, the parish of Riches Claires in Brussels has been caring for those new to European life.

Greece

One dead as fire breaks out at Greek migrant camp on Lesbos island

A fire broke out on Sunday at a container inside a crowded refugee camp on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos close to Turkey and one person was killed, emergency services said.

France

Busts at French vineyards find over 165 suspected slaves from Bulgaria

French officials last week arrested four members of an organised crime group, three from Bulgaria, one from France, after identifying around 167 potential slaves employed by four winegrowing companies near the eastern city of Lyon, according to Europol.

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Libya

Sudanese migrant shot dead after being returned to Libya

A Sudanese man was killed by a bullet would, the International Organization of Migration said.

World News

Charity ship Ocean Viking rescues 109 migrants in Mediterranean

The migrants were picked up in two separate operations off the coast of Libya, MSF, who runs the ship alongside SOS Mediterranee, said on Twitter.

World News

Charity ship Ocean Viking rescues 50 migrants from the Mediterranean

Charity ship Ocean Viking rescued 50 migrants from the Mediterranean on Sunday.

Spain

Passenger ferry rescues 18 migrants in the Mediterranean

Corsica Linea rescued the migrants off the Balearic Islands and disembarked them in Majorca.

Italy

Migrants disembark from German rescue ship seized in Italy

Migrants disembark from German rescue ship seized in Italy

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.

Greece

Greece sets out new measures to curb migrant flows

More than a dozen boats carrying migrants arrived in Greece on Thursday.

United Kingdom

How the English Channel became a new frontier of the migrant crisis

Stranded in France, forced out of Italy, refugees make a desperate bid for Britain

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155 migrants jump fence from Morocco to Spanish exclave

A dozen Civil Guard officers were treated after they were mildly injured when knocked by stones and sticks.

United Kingdom

France and UK pledge to stop English Channel migrant crossings

Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised to crackdown on 'ruthless people smugglers'.

France

Far-right trio jailed for anti-migrant helicopter operation

Three far-right activists with Generation Identitaire — Generation Identity — have been jailed for six months for intercepting migrants in the Alps.

World

'People can die if we don’t act,' says founder of migrant rescue NGO

'People can die if we don’t act,' says Axel Steier, the co-founder of the German NGO Mission Lifeline

Belgium

A flipper and a plastic bottle float: an Iraqi man's deadly asylum bid

'We don’t know where he started. We don’t know what his intentions were. We don’t know where he drowned.'

Libya

UN demands action on refugees after 40 killed in Libyan shipwreck

UN demands action on refugees after 40 killed in Libyan shipwreck.

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Venezuelan migrants protest after Ecuador shuts border crossing

Ecuador shut its border on Monday (August 26) to hundreds of Venezuelans waiting to cross, as new restrictions from Quito on migrants fleeing the OPEC nation come into effect.

Malta

Six EU states 'to take in migrants from stranded Ocean Viking ship'

France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania will welcome some of the migrants after agreeing on a deal, putting an end to a 14-day standoff.