Mar 03 Hundreds of Africans stopped from entering Spain for second day By News Desk Hundreds of people have tried for a second day to climb over the fences that separate a Spanish city in North Africa from Morocco. Continue reading
Jan 27 Coast Guard to suspend search for migrants off Florida after finding only 5 bodies By Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press Authorities have now found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing five days after the vessel capsized on the way to Florida from Bimini, a chain of islands in the Bahamas about 55 miles east of Miami. Continue reading
Jan 26 38 still missing off Flordia coast as situation grows 'dire,' Coast Guard says By Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press The Coast Guard has recovered one body and is keeping up the search for 38 other people missing from a capsized boat after a solitary survivor was found clinging to the overturned hull off the Florida coast. Continue reading
Dec 21 In the frigid Alps, local volunteers offer migrants warm hearts and comfort By John Leicester, Associated Press As Europe erects ever more fearsome barriers against migration, volunteers along the Italy-France border are working to keep migrants from being killed or maimed by cold and mountain mishaps as they cross the high Alps. Continue reading
Dec 10 55 dead after truck smuggling migrants crashes in Mexico By Manuel De La Cruz, Associated Press It was one of the deadliest days for migrants in Mexico since the 2010 massacre of 72 people by the Zetas drug cartel in the northern state of Tamaulipas. Continue reading
Dec 05 Pope chides Europe, comforts migrants on return to Lesbos By Nicole Winfield, Trisha Thomas, Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press Pope Francis returned Sunday to the Greek island of Lesbos to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was Europe’s indifference and self-interest “that condemns to death those on the fringes.”… Continue reading
Dec 02 U.S., EU and allies hit Belarus with coordinated sanctions By Lorne Cook, Associated Press The four have targeted Belarus since President Alexander Lukashenko won yet another term in office last year after elections that the West and other observers say were fraudulent. Continue reading
Nov 30 Migrant crisis highlighted in pope's Greece-Cyprus trip By Derek Gatopoulos, Theodora Tongas, Associated Press LESBOS, Greece (AP) — When Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016, he was so moved by the stories he heard from families fleeing war in Iraq and Syria that he wept and brought a dozen refugees… Continue reading
Nov 24 Dozens perish as migrant boat capsizes in English Channel By Sylvia Hui, Michel Spingler, Associated Press At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest migration tragedy on the dangerous crossing to date. Continue reading
Nov 23 Belarus says it has helped more than 100 migrants fly to home countries By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press Belarus' Interior Ministry officials said Tuesday that 118 migrants flew out of the capital, Minsk, on Monday to their home countries after the ex-Soviet country's authorities “assisted them with paperwork and passing through the state border.”… Continue reading