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Migrant crisis: EU ‘to grant Turkey visa-free travel’
The European Commission will grant Turkey conditional approval for visa-free travel within the EU's Schengen area. The move is part of a deal in which Turkey has agreed to take back migrants who have crossed the Aegean to Greece. But Turkey must still meet EU criteria, BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler says, and the deal must...
The shifting sea routes of Europe’s refugee crisis, in charts and maps
Twice in the past two weeks, dozens, if not hundreds, of people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea — but in both those cases, not one of them was Syrian. For the past year, the world has been largely focused on the rafts filled with refugees from Syria's civil war that have traveled incessantly from Turkey to the...
EXCLUSIVE: Can IRELAND block Brexit? Project Fear aims to use Irish migrants to swing vote
BREXIT may be blocked by half a million Irish citizens living in Britain, Remain campaigners have shockingly claimed. Citizens from the Republic of Ireland living in Britain are allowed to vote in June's referendum — the only EU country other than Commonwealth nations Malta and Cyprus granted this privilege —...
Gang of Muslim Male Immigrants Beat a Danish Girl With Iron Chains Then Laugh About it in Court
Nanna writes on her Facebook: “The blood is streaming from my mouth, the back of my head and the other wounds. My lip is split in two, all the way up to the nose. … I do not understand.. I am left with a lot of questions. Why? Why us? What is the meaning of this extreme violence? What is happening in the head of...
Migrant backlash as refugees turn on smugglers in spate of murders on Europe’s doorstep
DOZENS of migrants have been murdered this week in a orgy of violence and retribution between refugees and people smuggling gangs on Europe's doorstep. In the latest unrest, at least 13 Egyptian male migrants were murdered by gun-toting smugglers in lawless Libya following the earlier killing of three traffickers in a...
Migrant crisis: Austria passes controversial new asylum law
Austria has passed a controversial new law that restricts the right of asylum and allows most claimants to be rejected directly at the border. Rights groups say the law undermines the principle of protection from war and persecution. It comes days after Austria's far-right came top in the first round of a presidential...
Australia’s Manus Island migrant camp left in limbo
The fate of asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea remains unclear after the country's Supreme Court ruled their detention was unconstitutional. Australia sends asylum seekers to the Manus Island detention centre under its offshore processing policy. The Australian government is still waiting for advice from Papua New...
Migrant crisis: Merkel and EU officials visit Turkey to promote deal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top EU officials are due to visit the Turkish-Syrian border to promote a controversial month-old migrant deal. The visit comes amid questions over the legality of the EU-Turkey pact, which deports back to Turkey migrants who do not qualify for asylum in Greece. Human rights groups say Turkey...
Stunned driver finds 23 migrants in his lorry — 200 MILES from cross-channel ports
A LORRY load of migrants were found huddled together almost 200 MILES from the main cross-Channel ports. Police including armed officers swarmed to the scene after getting a call from startled driver of the refrigerated vehicle. He had pulled into a service area off the M4 outside Chippenham, Wiltshire, and discovered the group...
Afghan Government Seeks Financial Assistance to Bring Refugees Home
The Afghan government is finalizing agreements with some European member states and the European Union to handle the return of Afghan refugees, currently in limbo in Greece. The full details of the memoranda of understanding have yet to be announced, but Afghan officials have told that the Afghan government will seek support...
THE LATEST: Croatia, Albania join to block migrants
The Latest on European efforts to respond to the wave of migration (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Defense ministers from Croatia and Albania say the two countries will work together to prevent possible opening of a new migrant corridor through their territories after Balkan nations closed their borders. Croatia's Defense...
Migrant crisis: EU says numbers in Libya are alarming
Donald Tusk told MEPs that it would not be possible to apply the same approach used for the Balkans to unstable Libya. Italy's coastguard says 4,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean between Libya and Sicily on Monday and Tuesday. Meanwhile, Macedonian police again fired teargas at migrants protesting at the border...