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2016: The year that Europe stopped caring about dead migrants
Декабрь 30, 2016
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2016: The year that Europe stopped caring about dead migrants

This has been a grim year for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. The United Nations says a record 5,000 migrants have drowned, mostly on the Libya-to-Italy route. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) figures show that 358,403 people entered Europe by Sea in 2016, most of who arrived in Greece and...

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Belgium machete attacker was Algerian, say officials
Август 08, 2016
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Belgium machete attacker was Algerian, say officials

                    Belgian officials say a man who wounded two policewomen with a machete was a 33-year-old Algerian believed to have been inspired by terrorism. An inquiry for "attempted terrorist murder" has been launched into Saturday's attack in Charleroi. The...

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Spain Rescues 44 Migrants Trying to Cross Med in 2 Boats
Июль 31, 2016
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Spain Rescues 44 Migrants Trying to Cross Med in 2 Boats

Spain's maritime rescue service says it has rescued 44 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea crammed into two small boats. The rescue service says it collected 25 migrants before dawn Sunday from one boat and 19 others hours later from a second craft. No casualties were reported. It says captains of passing...

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More than 200 bodies recovered from migrant shipwreck, Italy says
Июль 09, 2016
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More than 200 bodies recovered from migrant shipwreck, Italy says

Italian authorities have recovered 217 bodies from a migrant ship that sank off the coast of Libya in April 2015, the Italian navy said this week. Italian authorities have said only 28 people survived the disaster, which has been labeled one of the deadliest of the migrant crisis. Some 700 people were on board the ship when it...

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EU opens new phase in Turkey membership bid talks
Июль 01, 2016
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EU opens new phase in Turkey membership bid talks

The EU has opened a new chapter in Turkey's EU membership talks, covering budget contributions to the bloc. By moving on with the negotiations the EU is delivering on a pledge it made to Turkey in March, said Slovakia — the country now set to manage EU affairs. Turkey's bid to join the EU is highly controversial...

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Refugees at highest ever level, reaching 65m, says UN
Июнь 20, 2016
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Refugees at highest ever level, reaching 65m, says UN

The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This represents one in every 113 people on the planet, the UN agency says....

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Migrant seized every SIX MINUTES: Yet more evidence of Britain’s border security shambles
Июнь 11, 2016
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Migrant seized every SIX MINUTES: Yet more evidence of Britain’s border security shambles

BRAZEN migrants have been caught trying to sneak into Britain at the rate of one every six minutes, the Daily Express can reveal today from official figures. Latest Government statistics — finally released to us after weeks of urging — show there were 84,088 detentions at the UK border on the continent last year....

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Brussels ‘wants MORE migrants and vows to give MILLIONS in aid to Turkey and Africa’
Июнь 08, 2016
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Brussels ‘wants MORE migrants and vows to give MILLIONS in aid to Turkey and Africa’

BRUSSELS wants to put a lid on the migrant crisis by inviting even more of them into mainland Europe, according to reports. A European Commission plan is said to reveal migrants from Africa and the Middle East will be awarded US-style green cards, meaning they could bring their families too. The immigrants could also be granted...

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European migrant crisis:: Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’
Май 30, 2016
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European migrant crisis:: Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says. The boats sank south of Italy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as the migrants tried to reach Europe in unseaworthy vessels. Spring weather has led to a surge of people attempting the...

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EU referendum: Gove and Johnson challenge PM on immigration
Май 29, 2016
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EU referendum: Gove and Johnson challenge PM on immigration

Two of the PM's most senior colleagues have told David Cameron to accept the failure of the government's manifesto pledge to reduce migration into the UK. Michael Gove and Boris Johnson said the pledge was "corrosive of public trust" while Britain remained in the EU. But Number 10 said their claim was an...

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European migrant crisis: Weekly boat rescues reach 13,000
Май 29, 2016
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European migrant crisis: Weekly boat rescues reach 13,000

The rescue of more than 600 migrants off Libya on Saturday by a flotilla of EU ships took the weekly total to at least 13,000, Italian authorities say. The rescues were the latest by a patrol of Italian, German and Irish ships operating in the Mediterranean. Spring weather has led to a surge of people attempting the perilous...

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Migrant crisis: UK to send second Royal Navy ship to Libya
Май 27, 2016
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Migrant crisis: UK to send second Royal Navy ship to Libya

The UK is set to send a second Royal Navy ship to the Mediterranean to help tackle people trafficking and arms smuggling in Libya, officials say. David Cameron told the G7 summit in Japan that the UK was ready to take an "active leadership role" in helping Libya deal with trafficking. The UK currently has one survey...

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