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The Lebanese army rescued more than 100 migrants Friday after their boat developed technical problems in the Mediterranean off the coast of the northern city of Tripoli, state-run National News Agency reported. No one was hurt in the…
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A nonprofit rescue ship operating off the coast of Libya saved 258 migrants in two separate operations in the early hours of Friday morning. The first of the two rescues involved a 7-meter (23-foot) -long wooden boat filled with 162…
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Italy’s detention of three Tunisian migrants awaiting asylum decisions has been ruled illegal under domestic and EU law by a Sicilian court, The Times reported on Monday. The ruling is viewed as a rebuke to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia…
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More than 350 German federal police searched premises across the country early Tuesday in connection with the smuggling of migrants early on Tuesday. The focus of the raids was on cities and towns in northern and western Germany but also…
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A road accident overnight in central Tunisia killed nine people including eight sub-Saharan African migrants, authorities said on Monday. It happened when the truck they were overturned on a road between Nasrallah and Manzel Mhiri in the…
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Pope Francis on Friday said European governments have a duty to rescue asylum-seekers who take to sea to escape conflict, warning against a "paralysis of fear, on the first day of a visit to the French Mediterranean city of Marseille.…
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Anti-migrant sentiment, economic woes and political pressures are leading some of the 3.3 millions Syrians living in Turkiye to plan a return to Syria or seek shelter in Europe, according to migrants interviewed by Reuters. They are…
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The Tunisian coast guard said on Tuesday it had intercepted more than 2,500 migrants and arrested dozens of human smugglers following a major crackdown launched last weekend in the coastal region of Sfax, a main departure point for migrants…
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Calls for compassion for migrants suffering in North Africa and those attempting to reach Europe or die trying will be at the heart of Pope Francis’s visit to Marseille this week. The pontiff is making a two-day trip to France’s…
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EU member states were left confused when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hurried into a migration pact with Tunisia, The Guardian revealed on Monday. In a letter dated Sept. 7, the High Representative of the EU for…
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