Tag: Migrants

  At least 700 migrants may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of migrant crossings from Libya towards Italy this...

Pope Francis held an emotional meeting with hundreds of children on Saturday, including a Nigerian boy whose parents drowned in a shipwreck, and told...

Pope Francis on Friday lamented a Europe he said had grown “weary” and “entrenched”, and urged the continent not to see migrants as criminals. Francis...

The Indian government is considering a proposal aimed to simplify the procedures for granting Indian citizenship to minority Hindus from Pakistan, the Times of...

Two ferries carrying more than 120 migrants returned to Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday, in the second round of arrivals...

The “crossing season” for migrant boats from Libya to Italy has not yet begun, yet arrivals are already up on last year’s count, raising...

Pope Francis decried what he called Europe’s “indifferent and anaesthetised conscience” over migrants, during Good Friday prayers in Rome during which he also slammed...

The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Russia on Monday for bombings in Syria that have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee, suggesting they...

Germany’s AfD began life as an anti-euro party, but it has morphed into a right-wing populist outfit suggesting that police should be allowed to...

Teenage Russian-German girl admitted to making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants in Berlin, according to state prosecutors. 13-year-old Lisa, as...

British Prime Minister David Cameron came under fire in parliament on Wednesday for referring to “a bunch of migrants” in Calais, with opposition MPs...

In a bid to prevent violence against women, Norway is offering asylum seekers courses in how to interpret mores in a country that may...

Bitter cold, biting winds and rough winter seas have done little to stem the seemingly endless flow of desperate people fleeing war or poverty...

Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Friday to call for solidarity with migrants while praising those who shelter them. “May God repay all those,...

Macedonian police fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding...

As the hunt for jihadists widens after last week's Paris attacks, authorities in Greece warn it was virtually impossible to pick out dangerous extremists...