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Greek authorities says 104 rescued so far after fishing vessel capsizes off coast of Peloponnese Peninsula, in worst such disaster this year A fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, authorities said, leaving at least 78 people dead and many dozens feared missing …

Italy remains dissatisfied with the apologies offered by Paris after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants, Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday. “Clearer words are needed,” Tajani, who is a member of the conservative Forza Italia party, told Italian state-owned television RAI in …

Chile’s government said that 115 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded on the border with Peru were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight Sunday. Hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans seeking to return home, had been stranded on the country’s northern border after being denied entry into Peru. The incident …

The Peruvian Government of President Dina Boluarte Friday sent troops to the southern region of Tacna, bordering Chile, to support the National Police (PNP) handle the migrant crisis, Defense Minister Jorge Chávez announced. “Our action is from 100 meters from the borderline backward establishing patrols in critical points where the …

Morgues and hospitals in the city of Sfax are full, officials say, as the death toll from refugee shipwrecks soars. Tunisian coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official has said, raising the number of victims of refugee shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in …

At least 20 African migrants were missing on Saturday after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official told Reuters. The coast guard rescued 17 others off southern city of Sfax from the same boat, two of whom are in critical …

Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they were travelling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy’s coastguard said. Alarm Phone, a charity that picks up calls from migrant vessels in distress, assumed the 30 people were dead …

Hundreds of people tried to storm the US-Mexico border on Sunday, after a rumor that migrants would be allowed to cross into the United States. Around noon, a large crowd of mainly Venezuelans began to gather near the entrance of a bridge connecting Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez to El Paso, Texas …

Six people have been charged with human trafficking in Bulgaria following the incident Prosecutors in Bulgaria have charged six people with human trafficking following the discovery near the capital, Sofia, on Friday of an abandoned truck containing the remains of 18 Afghan migrants who died of suffocation. “The victims died …

Dozens of migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off Libya, with only seven survivors found so far, the United Nations said Wednesday. “At least 73 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead following a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast yesterday (Tuesday),” the UN’s International Organization for …

More than 45,000 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK from mainland Europe in 2022, surpassing the previous year’s record by more than 17,000, according to government figures released Sunday. The issue has become a huge political problem for the Conservative government, which has promised to bring down illegal immigration …

The Tunisian coastguard has recovered 11 bodies thought to be of irregular migrants lost at sea while attempting to reach Europe, a spokesman said Friday. The partly decomposed bodies were found on Thursday and Friday in Mediterranean waters off the central province of Mahdia, National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli …

Six people including children drowned when a boat carrying migrants destined for Italy sank off the coast of southwestern Turkey, the coast guard said on Tuesday. In a statement, the coast guard said a total of 73 migrants from four lifeboats were rescued on Tuesday while search and rescue operations …

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 12, Tunisia’s ministry of interior said on Monday. A total of 37 migrants, all of the Tunisian nationality, were involved in this attempt to illegally reach the Italian coast from the region of Sfax (central-east), according …

The Greek government said on Thursday that some 25,000 migrants had tried to enter the country through its border with Turkey in August, as it announced plans to dramatically extend a wall between the two neighbors. Athens will extend a 40-kilometer (25-mile) long wall built along the Greek-Turkish border at …

Hundreds of migrants crossed the Channel from France to Britain in small boats on Sunday, the UK Ministry of Defense said, following an 11-day hiatus in the controversial arrivals. The resumption in the journeys, thought to be due to a change in the weather, comes weeks after Britain announced contentious …

More than 3,000 refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a UN refugee agency report showed on Friday, reporting the highest toll in recent years. Thousands of Africans take long, perilous journeys to Europe each …

Lebanon’s cabinet ordered the military court on Tuesday to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after colliding with a naval vessel giving chase, with at least six dead and dozens missing. The boat carrying Lebanese and Syrian migrants sank off the coast near the impoverished northern city of Tripoli …

The boat capsized shortly after leaving the northern coastal town of Qalamoun near Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city. The Lebanese Red Cross said on social media that a boat with about 60 people on board sank near the port of Tripoli on Saturday. Several ambulances were sent to the port. “The …

At least four migrants have died after their boat was wrecked on an islet north of the island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard said, adding that rescue crews had mounted an operation to rescue about 90 other people. Greece is one of the main routes into the European …