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By Beyza Binnur Donmez GENEVA (AA): Two children are drown on average per day while trying to cross Central Mediterranean due to the “absence of safe and legal routes,” the UN Children’s Agency, UNICEF, said on Friday. The number of children that have lost their lives while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe […]

10th Jul 2023

Senegal: 300 migrants from Senegal missing at sea

By Senhan Bolelli MADRID (AA): Three boats carrying more than 300 irregular migrants have gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean, an official with migrant aid group Walking Borders said Sunday. Helena Maleno, the group’s spokeswoman, said the boats left 15 days ago from Senegal for Spain’s Canary Islands. Maleno said there were around 200 irregular […]

14th Mar 2023

Italy: 30 migrants missing in shipwreck off Libya, 17 rescued

By Giada Zampano ROME (AA): Italy rescued at least 17 migrants while 30 others are still missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean. The Italian Coast Guard Command said on Sunday they conducted a rescue operation targeting the boat carrying 47 people about 177 kilometers (110 miles) off the […]

28th Feb 2023

Italy: Death toll from migrant shipwreck off southern Italy climbs to 63

By Ahmet Gencturk ATHENS (AA): The death toll from the shipwreck off southern Italy of a wooden boat carrying migrants climbed to 63, local media reported Monday. Search and rescue teams recovered four more bodies, including of a 14-year-old girl, said the state-run ANSA news agency. 12 children have died after their wooden boat crashed […]

16th Feb 2023

73 migrants presumed dead after shipwreck off Libyan coast

By Peter Kenny GENEVA (AA): At least 73 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead following a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday. The boat, carrying around 80 people, reportedly left Qasr Alkayar, a Libyan coastal town overlooking the Mediterranean Sea located approximately 75 […]

8th Nov 2022

Rescue ship with 179 migrants on board allowed to enter Italian port

By Baris Seckin ROME (AA): Italy allowed a German-flagged rescue ship to enter a port in Sicily and disembark women, children and ill migrants, according to local media reports on Sunday. Humanity-1, operated by German charity SOS Humanity, entered the port of Catania escorted by an Italian coast guard boat. In line with the latest […]

5th Nov 2022

Greece: 23 dead after boat carrying asylum seekers sinks in Aegean Sea

By Magda Panoutsopoulou ATHENS (AA): At least 23 bodies were pulled out after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank near islands of Evia in the Aegean Sea, Greek officials said Friday. Many are still missing. Five children were among the dead from Tuesday’s boat wreck, according to the Greek coast guard. Twelve people, including a […]

10th Jun 2022

Council of Europe urges Denmark to address anti-Muslim discrimination, racism

By Shweta Desai PARIS (AA): The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on Thursday called on Denmark to urgently address anti-Muslim discrimination and racism against minorities and stop forced evictions of immigrant families. In a monitoring report, the commission urged Danish authorities to introduce a national action plan against racism on a priority basis […]

24th Apr 2022

Lebanon: Boat capsizes near coast of Tripoli killing one, 27 missing

(Agencies): One child was killed and 27 others missing after a boat carrying 60 irregular migrants capsized off the coast of the Lebanese city of Tripoli, according to the Lebanese Red Cross on Saturday. “The boat, 60 people on board, sank. For the people, the Lebanese Red Cross has sent seven ambulances to the port […]

29th Dec 2021

Turkey rescues 526 asylum seekers pushed back by Greece

By Faruk Zorlu and Ahmet Gencturk ANKARA (AA): Turkey has rescued 526 irregular migrants over the past 12 days who were pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek forces, the country’s Coast Guard Command said Tuesday. From Dec. 13-25, “in a total of 52 incidents, 991 irregular migrants and 10 migrant smugglers were […]

17th Dec 2021

Malaysia: 19 people die in boat tragedy

– 8 more bodies recovered, including 6 men, 2 women; 17 still missing By Dilan Pamuk ANKARA (AA): The death toll rose to 19 on Thursday from a boat tragedy in southern Malaysia with the recovery of eight more bodies, including six men and two women. Fourteen people have been rescued but 17 are believed […]

28th Nov 2021

Turkey rescues 29 asylum seekers pushed back by Greece

By Halil Sahin IZMIR (AA):- Turkey rescued 29 asylum seekers early Saturday who were illegally pushed back by Greece into Turkish waters in the Aegean Sea. The asylum seekers, who were in a life raft, were taken ashore near the Cesme district of Izmir province, the Turkish Coast Guard Command said in a statement. […]

9th Sep 2021

Turkey rescues 97 asylum seekers in Aegean Sea

By Sabri Kesen, Gokhan Duzyol and Ali Balli MUGLA/AYDIN, Turkey (AA): Turkey rescued 97 asylum seekers who were illegally pushed back by the Greek Coast Guard into Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean Sea, security sources said Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, the Turkish Coast Guard teams rescued 18 asylum seekers from a rubber […]

1st Oct 2017

Canada: Anti-Muslim group confronted by protesters in Quebec

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Ont. (AA): Anti-immigration and anti-Muslim groups clashed with counter-protesters in Ottawa, Saturday, along the Quebec border where thousands of asylum seekers have crossed into the country since January. On Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, the seat of the federal government, a few dozen members of a far-right alliance called the Canadian Coalition […]

17th Oct 2015

Ukraine: Meskhetian Turks, fleeing Ukraine war, migrate to Turkey

ANKARA (AA): At least 150 people from the Turkish-speaking minority in eastern Ukraine, known as Meskhetian Turks, will flee to Turkey’s eastern region next week under Turkish asylum measures enacted in April, the general secretary of World Meskhetian Turks Association said on Friday. Fuat Ucar said that Turkey will take in at least 3,000 Meskhetian Turks who live in Ukraine’s […]

30th Aug 2015

Libya: Scores of would-be migrants found dead off Libyan coast

TRIPOLI, (AA): Libyan authorities have confirmed the discovery of scores of bodies of would-be migrants who appear to have drowned while trying to make the dangerous passage to Europe from the Libyan coast. On Friday, local authorities found at least 80 dead bodies in the water off the coast of the western city of Zuwara, […]

31st Jul 2015

France, UK seek to send Calais migrants back

By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum ANKARA (AA): After more than 1,500 migrants attempted to storm trains using the underground rail link between Great Britain and France this week, both countries are moving to end the chaos at Eurotunnel’s terminal at Calais. The situation outside the northern French depot is such that Calais mayor, Natacha Bouchart, told reporters late on […]

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