Italian officials said at least a dozen other people are still missing. The boat tipped over in bad weather near the Italian island of Lampedusa. The UN says more than 1,000 people have died in the Mediterranean so far this year trying to make the perilous journey to Europe. Italy’s coastguard said it had launched …
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Greece has announced plans to close its three largest migrant camps and replace them with facilities on the mainland that campaigners have likened to detention centres. People living in overcrowded camps on the islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos will be moved to closed complexes for identification, relocation and deportation with a capacity of at least 5,000 people …
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Three refugees and a five-month-old baby were targeted in an apparently racist shooting in central Germany, local media reported on Tuesday. Four suspects fired several shots from the balcony of an apartment, while a group of refugees were walking on a nearby street in the small town Schoeningen in Lower Saxony, Der Spiegel reported. Police …
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced Saturday that a 9 month old baby died in the Moria refugee camp in Greece. “We have confirmed today by the local hospital in #Lesbos that a 9 month old baby has died some days ago from severe dehydration in #Moria camp #Greece,” MSF said on Twitter. The medical charity …
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Almost 70,000 migrant children were detained in custody by border officials in 2019, a 42 per cent increase on the previous year. New government data obtained by Associated Press reveal that 69,550 migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year – enough infants, toddlers, kids and teens to overflow the typical NFL …
To outsiders, Diavata may seem like a sleepy village tucked in the rolling hills and bucolic landscape beyond Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. But it’s actually a flashpoint of nationalism, packed with far-right groups bent on keeping Greece for Greeks only. Just years ago and at the height of Europe’s refugee crisis, violent demonstrations emerged out of the …
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Around 600 French police took part in the evacuation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning. Between 1,500 to 3,000 migrants, including 250 women and children, had been living in the camps that had sprung up alongside major roads, underneath motorway flyovers and bridges around the Porte de la Chapelle area of northern …
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More than 250 illegal migrants caught on Monday by the Turkish border units in the northwestern province of Edirne claimed they were assaulted by Greek security forces before being illegally pushed back to Turkey. The migrants told Turkish security forces that they crossed the border and upon being caught by the authorities they were indiscriminately …
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According to the latest official data, Greece is hosting 4,779 unaccompanied minors, but just over 1,200 are in secure structures. The data also shows that the number of unaccompanied minors has surged in recent months, reaching its highest point since the start of the refugee crisis in 2015. Meanwhile, the number of daily arrivals of …
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Migrants making their way into Croatia from Bosnia are now greeted with a hard-hitting advertising campaign stating: ”Welcome to Croatia – Country of torture.” A local NGO, ‘Inicijativa Dobrodošli’, or Welcome Initiative, is behind the campaign which aims to support refugees and protest against restrictive and abusive migrant policies. With winter approaching, thousands of migrants, …
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