Tag: Migrants
Will visit Pakistan soon to send back migrants: EU migration commissioner
EU’s migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Wednesday that he is set to visit Pakistan soon to discuss plans to send back Pakistani migrants who...
13 children among at least 22 migrants drowned off Greece: authorities
At least 22 migrants, including 13 children, drowned overnight Thursday to Friday off the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Rhodes as they made a...
UN raises alarm over sex abuse of migrant women, children in...
The UN refugee agency said more than a third of the more than 600,000 migrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe this year are women and children, warning they are “particularly subject to abuse.”
Twelve migrants including children drown off Turkish coast
Twelve migrants thought to be from Syria and Afghanistan, including four children and a baby, drowned off the coast of Turkey as they tried...
85 dead migrants found washed up in Libya
The bodies of 85 migrants have been found washed up on the coast of Libya, a major departure point for the sea crossing to...
Migrants break into Channel Tunnel, rail services disrupted
Around 200 migrants tried to get into the Channel Tunnel from the French side overnight, clashing with staff and police and forcing a temporary...
Nearly 21,000 migrants hit Greek shores last week, reports UN
The number of migrants arriving in crisis-hit Greece is accelerating dramatically, with nearly 21,000 landing on the overstretched Greek islands last week alone, the...
Hasina slams migrants, calls for trafficking crackdown
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday slammed the country’s economic migrants, many of whom are stranded in dire conditions at sea, calling them “mentally...
Five Tunisian migrants die in shipwreck
Boat smugglers make use of Tunisia's proximity to the Italian island of Lampedusa to ship migrants there, with Tunisian authorities rescuing dozens of people traveling in unsafe boats in the past few weeks.
Rohingya migrants ‘died in fight for food’ on boat
Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia Sunday said that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining...
Malaysia intercepts migrants towed back to sea by Thais, thousands still...
Govts criticised for playing ‘marine ping-pong’ with migrants
Italy says 4,100 boat migrants rescued during weekend mission
Nearly 4,100 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and Sunday and rescue operations continued as people smugglers took...
Migrants ‘thrown overboard’ in religious row as toll climbs
Italian police on Thursday said 12 African migrants had died after being thrown overboard by fellow passengers in the latest high-seas tragedy in the...
250 Syrian migrants rescued off Cyprus
Around 250 Syrian migrants crammed onto a fishing boat were rescued off the northern coast of Cyprus on Sunday as the vessel hit rough...
Foreign worker riot shocks Singapore
Singapore faced shocking scenes of burning cars and littered streets Monday following a riot by South Asian workers in the worst outbreak of violence...
Small boat sinks off Greek island, 20 migrants drown
A small boat carrying migrants hoping to get to Greece sank near the eastern island of Lesvos early on Saturday, drowning 20 people, Greek...
Migrants found dead off Greek coast
At least 18 migrants have died and 11 are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea, police...
