Migrants

Meta, TikTok agree to fact-check content on Spanish border crossings after Ceuta rush

The purpose is to prevent criminal networks from enticing potential migrants to attempt to cross with false information, which has led to tragic deaths, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said.

Migrants wait in line to receive food and beverage from the Red Cross, following mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish territory, in Ceuta, Spain, August 3, 2026.
PRO-PALESTINE demonstration in Nancy, France, 2024

France: A license to kill

Spanish national police officers check the documents of travellers arriving from Italy, after Spain's government said it would establish border controls for flights and ships from Italy, from midnight on Saturday until September 7, in a dispute over irregular migration, at Madrid-Barajas Airport

Spain checks 200 Italian arrivals as countries clash over Moroccan migrant crisis at Ceuta border

Migrants, some of them minors, queue to receive food staples from local NGO Media Luna Blanca in an industrial area where they are sleeping amid recent mass crossings by migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into the Spanish territory, Migrants, some of them minorsin Ceuta, Spain, August 6, 2026.

Spain hopes to transfer migrant minors to mainland within weeks


Boat with 400 migrants adrift between Libya and Malta, support service says

The boat sent out a rescue call last night but no rescue mission has been launched yet.

 Aerial view shows the M/V BASILIS L merchant ship, which was ordered to help with rescue efforts of the migrant boat, in the absence of patrol boats from both Italy and Libya, which was en route from Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea March 11, 2023

Migrant domestic workers suffer ‘modern day slavery’ in Lebanon

The deportation of a beloved Ethiopian community leader refocuses attention on the difficult conditions endured by many African and Asian migrants working in the country.

 A migrant domestic worker from Africa carries her luggage to a bus transporting her with others to the airpot to travel back to her country, in Beirut suburbs, Lebanon October 5, 2020.

Migrant shipwreck in Italy kills at least 61, including 12 children

The vessel was carrying people from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and several other countries when it crashed near the Italian coast.

 A boat that was carrying immigrants is seen in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, March 30, 2018. Picture taken March 30, 2018

US officials prepping legislation to revamp asylum system

US efforts to clean up the asylum process revolve around speeding up the process.

 UKRAINIAN REFUGEES arrive at Przemysl Glowny train station in Poland, after fleeing the Russian invasion.

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in the process of reunification.

A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.

Mexico agents find 269 migrants in trailer near southern border

Many migrants pass through Tuxtla on their journey to escape poverty and violence elsewhere in Latin America.

 Employees of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico stand at the border between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 7, 2023.

Fears of migrant deaths rise after bodies found in eastern Poland

One of three bodies has been identified, as a Yemeni doctor, near Poland's boarder with Belarus, leaving two more bodies unidentified.

 Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021.

Families of 8 Gazan migrants who drowned blame Hamas for their deaths

“I blame all the officials here who do not take care of young people or provide them with employment opportunities,” said the mother of one of the victims.

Palestinians attend the funeral of 8 people, who died when a ship carrying migrants drowned offshore Tunisia in October, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022.

At least four dead after migrant boat capsizes off English coast

Despite freezing temperatures, more than 500 migrants have made the journey over the English channel in small boats in the last week alone.

 Police officers gather at the Port of Dover amid a rescue operation of a missing migrant boat, in Dover, Britain December 14, 2022.

More than 500 migrants arrive in Italy as rescue ships dock

The influx of migrants, rescued by a Doctors without Borders (MSF) vessel, is a point of pressure for Italy's new right-wing government.

 Migrants disembark at the port of Pozzallo after spending nearly two weeks on board the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)-operated Ocean Viking