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Greece said on Friday it was deploying more border guards to “shut the door” to migrants not entitled to stay, the latest sign of a hardening stance against asylum seekers since a new surge in the number of arrivals. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament he had approved the hiring …

Violence gripped the notoriously overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos as rioters trashed fire trucks and clashed with police after a fire broke out. A woman and a child were killed. The first fire started at around 4:45 pm on Sunday, some 400 meters from the …

Fox News poll suggests president to lose in 2020, amid impeachment struggle and revelations of secret ‘promise’ to a foreign leader A new Fox News poll sees Donald Trump lagging behind his 2020 challengers as news breaks that a promise the president made during a phone call to a mystery …

French police have cleared more than 800 migrants from a makeshift camp that sprung up outside a gymnasium near the northern port of Dunkirk last spring. The move on Tuesday followed a court ruling that the camp had become a health and security hazard, AFP said. The mayor of Grande-Synthe …

The body of an Iraqi migrant who tried to swim across the Channel from France to the UK has been found off Belgium’s coast, Belgian authorities said Monday. The 48-year-old was discovered on Friday near the seaside resort of Zeebrugge, wearing a makeshift life jacket made of empty plastic bottles …

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday he was working to prevent two rescue ships operated by French and Spanish charities from bringing more than 500 migrants to Italy in the latest Mediterranean stand-off. The Ocean Viking, which is run by French non-governmental groups (NGOs) Doctors Without Borders and …

Italian police have arrested the captain of a rescue ship carrying dozens of migrants rescued near Libya after a weeks-long standoff between the vessel and authorities came to a climax off the island of Lampedusa. Carola Rackete, the German captain of Sea-Watch 3, was led off the ship in handcuffs …

US President Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed some details of his immigration deal with Mexico. He refused to discuss the plans with reporters, saying they were “secret”. But he said this while waving around a sheet of paper that had the specifics of the deal written on it – which …

The risk of migrants and refugees becoming shipwrecked in the Mediterranean and dying at sea is the highest it has ever been due to a lack of NGO rescue ships and the conflict in Libya hastening departures at an alarming rate, the UN has warned. “If we do not intervene …

Germany spent a record 23 billion euros ($25.65 billion) last year on helping to integrate more than one million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, a government document showed on Monday. That marks an increase of nearly 11 percent on the 20.8 billion euros that Germany spent …

A group of approximately 100 Central American migrants was detained by members of the National Migration Institute during an operation close to the Mexican town of Huixtla in Chiapas State on Tuesday afternoon (April 16), Milenio TV reported. A group of migrants, resting at a toll booth along the Huixtla-Escuintla …

In a meeting with top national security advisors this week, US President Donald Trump discussed potentially increasing US military involvement at the United States-Mexico border to build migrant tent camps. As reported by NBC News, President Trump also enquired if the military could run the camps once migrants arrived. This …