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Italy rescues around 1,100 migrants in Mediterranean
An estimated 2,726 men, women and children have died over the same period trying to make the journey.
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Migration: Fact versus fiction
The share of people living outside their countries of origin’s barely increased in recent decades.
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Data shows Germany has curbed open-door policy for migrants
The influx has dented the popularity of Merkel’s party and prompted the rise of an anti-immigration party.
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EU migrant deal not possible if Turkey's demands not met - Erdogan
Erdogan vowed to keep Turkey’s promises on the migrant deal as recently as 26 July.
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4 arrested in Italy, Hungary, Slovenia for trafficking migrants
Two of the suspects were arrested in northern Italy, one in Budapest and one in the Slovenian city of Maribor.
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Migrants tell of horrors of voyage in Italy media campaign
The majority of migrants arriving in Italy come from Africa, & many do not qualify for refugee status.
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22 found dead on migrant boat in Mediterranean - MSF
An MSF ship came to the rescue of two dinghies and managed to pull 209 people to safety.
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Italian coastguard: Ten migrants die in sinking boat off Libya
The latest incidents came as the navy revised down the estimated death toll in a 2015 migrant shipwreck.
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Interpol launches appeal to catch people smugglers
An Interpol study showed smugglers made over $5 billion from the wave of migration into Europe.
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More than 10,000 protest against racism in several German cities
Organisers said over 20,000 people joined the protests, while police counted more than 10,000.
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MSF spurns EU funding over 'shameful' Turkey migrant deal
MSF will lose €37 million of funding from EU states and €19 million from EU institutions.
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German minister tells doctors to be tougher on migrants facing deportation
More than a million migrants arrived in Germany last year, which has raised concerns about security.
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UNICEF: Children face beatings, rape, death trying to reach Europe
Minors account for a growing percentage of migrants and refugees, particularly those trying to reach Italy.
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EU ministers turn wary eye on migration from North Africa
The EU is also worried about the long-term impact of massive migration from Africa.
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Germany police report could raise unease among anti-immigrant groups
According to the report, migrants committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes at the start of 2016.
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The Mediterranean migrant crisis in numbers
The Mediterranean migrant crisis in numbers
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Italy arrests 16 suspected boat migrant traffickers
As Europe’s worst migration crisis since WWII continues, more than 2,500 people are thought to have died.
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UNHCR: Deadly week in Mediterranean as smugglers pack boats
This year is proving to be particularly deadly with 2,510 lives lost in shipwrecks and capsising.
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Between 700-900 migrants may have died at sea this week
About 14,000 have been rescued & there’ve been at least 3 confirmed instances of boats sinking.
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Rescued migrants say ship sank off Italy with hundreds aboard
Rescued migrants told humanitarian workers that they saw another vessel carrying some 400 migrants sink.
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More than 2,000 boat migrants rescued off Italy, 45 dead
Around 14,000 people were taken off often flimsy vessels over the whole week and hundreds may have drowned.
