Mediterranean

U.N. says 850,000 to cross sea to Europe in 2015 and 2016

At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year a...

Sep 08, 2015 09:28 PM EDT

Austria plans to end measures allowing migrants from Hungary and move 'towards normality'

Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees ...

Sep 06, 2015 11:12 PM EDT

France to build Calais camp for 1,500 migrants

France plans to build a camp this winter for as many as 1,500 migrants in the northern port city of ...

Sep 01, 2015 01:35 AM EDT

Unprecedented migrant crisis forces EU to seek answers

European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions...

Aug 30, 2015 06:37 PM EDT

Mediterranean refugee and migrant numbers pass 300,000 in 2015

The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has passed 300,000 th...

Aug 28, 2015 07:47 AM EDT

Derelict Kos hotel a haven for migrants trapped in Greece

Mohammed Ibrahim fled fighting in Afghanistan for a better life in Germany but found himself trapped...

Aug 17, 2015 09:44 AM EDT

More than 200 feared dead in sinking of migrant boat

Hopes faded of finding more survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are feared ...

Aug 06, 2015 10:01 PM EDT

Pope says abuse of migrants "makes one cry," visits Turin Shroud

Pope Francis said on Sunday the mistreatment of migrants escaping war and injustice "makes one cry" ...

Jun 21, 2015 09:09 AM EDT

International flotilla rescues 5,900 from Mediterranean in a weekend

An international rescue fleet plucked almost 5,900 migrants from rickety boats making the perilous s...

Jun 07, 2015 06:06 PM EDT

International effort rescues over 5,000 Mediterranean migrants

The corpses of 17 migrants were brought ashore in Sicily aboard an Italian naval vessel on Sunday al...

May 31, 2015 06:42 PM EDT

Italy says over 900 migrants rescued at sea, one dead

More than 900 migrants were rescued in one day from three overcrowded boats en route to Europe from ...

May 21, 2015 09:38 AM EDT

EU seeks naval mission in Mediterranean to go after smugglers

The EU's foreign policy chief pushed on Monday for a naval mission in the Mediterranean to target Li...

May 18, 2015 10:12 AM EDT

Niger passes law to tackle migrant smuggling, first in West Africa

Niger has approved a law against the smuggling of migrants in an effort to stem the deadly flow of v...

May 12, 2015 11:01 AM EDT

French patrol ship rescues 217 migrants off Libya coast

A French patrol ship rescued 217 migrants from three small boats that had run into trouble off the c...

May 02, 2015 07:10 PM EDT

Brother says accused Tunisian was forced to captain migrant boat at gunpoint

The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 peopl...

Apr 26, 2015 12:20 AM EDT

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