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Tunisian authorities have arrested an Italian man suspected of building a boat for irregular migrants trying to reach to Europe, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday. The 45-year-old who was not named “works in a boat building…
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The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants — including several children — from neighboring Turkiye killing one passenger, Greek authorities said Friday. A coast guard statement said shots were…
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As soon as she stepped onto Mexican soil this week, Venezuelan migrant Yuri Carolina Melendez downloaded the US government’s app to apply for asylum appointments. The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s…
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The British government on Wednesday announced new measures to crack down on high numbers of asylum seekers arriving illegally on small boats from France. It said 100 “new specialist intelligence and investigation officers” would be…
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The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday said its officers had arrested a man in connection with a small boat Channel crossing that led to the death Sunday of a woman in France. The NCA said it had detained a 29-year-old Egyptian…
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Libya repatriated Tuesday 369 irregular migrants to their home countries Nigeria and Mali, including more than one hundred women and children, an official told AFP. Mohammed Baredaa, head of the Libyan interior ministry organization…
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Senegal intercepted 200 “irregular migrants,” the army said Friday, just days after 90 people drowned off the coast of Mauritania while attempting the same crossing. The Senegalese navy on Friday detained a boat near the northern city of…
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More than half of the mainly sub-Saharan migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Tunisia currently live in “unsuitable conditions,” a domestic rights group said Tuesday. In its latest study on migration, the Tunisian Forum for Economic…
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Growing warmth in ties between Ankara and Damascus has raised fears among refugees in Turkiye that they will be deported back to Syria. Syria has said normalization can come only after Turkiye pulls troops out of opposition-held areas of…
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French authorities said Thursday that more than 150 migrants trying to reach Britain had been rescued from overloaded boats in the Strait of Dover and returned to France. “Two migrant vessels in trouble” in the English Channel strait…
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