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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.
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Drop in deaths in Mediterranean 'is a hopeful sign'...
So far this year 1,370 migrants & refugees have perished at sea, nearly 25% fewer than last year.
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Smugglers made $5-6bn off migrants to Europe in 2015
Nine out of 10 migrants & refugees entering the European Union in 2015 relied on facilitation services.
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Panama closes border with Colombia to stem migrant flow
Panama & Mexico agreed to airlift almost 3,500 Cubans stranded since December on the frontier with Costa Rica.
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More migrants ferried from Greece to Turkey under EU deal
Over 340 people have so far been returned to Turkey since 4 April under the accord agreed with the EU.
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EU aims for joint European coast guard by summer
EU leaders reached an agreement to tighten border control & coastguard to manage the influx of migrants.
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Up to 500 migrants drown in the Mediterranean
The survivors from Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan say they were transferred to another vessel when it sank.
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Italy coast guard confirms six corpses found in migrant boat
The bodies were found by humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee on a rubber dingy on Sunday.
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Pope Francis takes Syrian refugees on aircraft from Greece
Three families of Syrian refugees boarded Pope Francis's plane heading back to the Vatican earlier today.
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Five migrants drown off Greek island of Samos after boat capsizes
Five other migrants were rescued.
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Migrant arrivals on Greek islands slow, some still trying to leave Turkey
Three days after the EU-Turkey deal came into force, new arrivals on the Greek islands from Turkey dropped.
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Uncertainty reigns a day before migrants are to be returned to Turkey
The return of the migrants is a key part of an agreement between the European Union and Turkey.
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OPINION: How teachers can help migrant learners feel more included
Helen Hanna says if migrant children’s identities are ignored, they may feel detached from school.
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Germany wants refugees to integrate or lose residency rights
There are plans for a law that will require refugees to learn German & integrate into society.
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Migrants protest to be let through Greek-Macedonian border
Around 50,000 migrants and refugees remain trapped in Greece after a domino of border closures.
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Italy rescues hundreds of migrants at sea, recovers body
Italy's coastguard and navy tweeted that they had picked up the migrants from several different vessels.
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Hundreds of migrants march out of Greek camp, cross to Macedonia
Macedonian police said three migrants had drowned crossing a river near the Greek border.
