European mass migration crisis

July 19, 2019 - 7:48 am

Spain: 50 migrants scale fence to African enclave

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in the Spanish city of Melilla say that around 200 migrants have tried to climb a barrier separating the European country's north African enclave from Morocco. The local office of the Spanish government's representative said Friday that one migrant suffered a fractured leg...
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July 18, 2019 - 6:44 am

Up to 14 migrants reported killed in road crash in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says a van carrying migrants has crashed in eastern Turkey, killing at least four people. Private NTV television said as many as 14 migrants were killed in the accident. Anadolu Agency said the van rolled into a roadside ditch on a highway near...
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019 file photo, a family are transported to a transit zone for asylum seekers by police bus, in Roszke, Hungary. Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said Wednesday July 19, 2019, at the end of a visit to Hungary, that authorities should move families with children awaiting a ruling on their asylum applications from detention in border transit zones to open reception centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi, File)
July 17, 2019 - 3:06 pm

UN expert critical of Hungary's treatment of asylum-seekers

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary should not allow security concerns to override the human rights of migrants, a U.N. migration expert said Wednesday. Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on migrant rights, said that Hungarian authorities should move families with children who are...
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Debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. An airstrike hit the detention center for migrants early Wednesday, killing several. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)
July 16, 2019 - 12:25 pm

Officials: Migrants return to bombed Libya detention center

PARIS (AP) — A Libyan detention center where an airstrike killed more than 50 people two weeks ago is filling with migrants again, and work has resumed at a nearby weapons workshop, despite calls from the United Nations to empty the compound and others like it near the front-lines of the country's...
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In this June 21, 2019, photo, Blaise Matshieba Nduluyele pauses as he speaks outside the Expo Center in Portland, Maine, about the dangerous journey he and his family made in order to seek asylum in the United States. He and his family have been provided temporary shelter in Portland along with hundreds of other African migrants, mostly from Congo and Angola. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
July 16, 2019 - 9:00 am

Africans flee to South America on dangerous journey to US

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — When an armed conflict erupted in his village in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Blaise Matshieba Nduluyele fled from the carnage. Hundreds of people, including some of his relatives, were slaughtered. Death remained close as his family undertook a grueling journey starting...
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President Donald Trump speaks during a Made in America showcase event on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
July 15, 2019 - 9:01 pm

Trump digs in on racist tweets: 'Many people agree with me'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant in the face of widespread criticism, President Donald Trump renewed his belligerent call on Monday for four Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. "right now," cementing his position as the most willing U.S. leader in generations to stoke the discord that...
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A barricade is on fire outside an abandoned school before being evicted, on the outskirts of Rome, Monday, July 15, 2019. Residents set fire early Monday to mattresses and other garbage to form a barrier and prevent riot police from entering the building but authorities doused the blaze and proceeded with the eviction. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
July 15, 2019 - 12:07 pm

Italian police clear migrant squatters amid burning debris

ROME (AP) — Migrants and squatters set up burning barricades at an abandoned school outside Rome on Monday after police were ordered to clear the site. Residents set fire to tires, mattresses, and garbage to try and deter the police in riot gear. But authorities doused the blaze and proceeded with...
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Migrants rest on a Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO boat, as they sail off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. An Italian humanitarian group whose boat has been barred from docking in Lampedusa said the health of the 54 migrants it rescued at sea is rapidly deteriorating, prompting fears of another standoff with Italy's populist government. Mediterranea Saving Humans said Friday in a tweet that its sailing boat ALEX was off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, and that it has been banned from entering Italian jurisdiction by ministerial decree. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)
July 15, 2019 - 5:41 am

Refugee group: 'Alarming' that only 27% of funds received

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A leading advocacy group for refugees said Monday that with half of 2019 gone, humanitarian organizations have received only 27% of the money needed to provide relief to people affected by crises worldwide this year. Norwegian Refugee Council secretary-general Jan Egeland...
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July 11, 2019 - 4:03 pm

UN agencies seek 'new approach' to Libya migrant crisis

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration and refugee agencies are making a joint call for a "new approach" among countries to solve a migration crisis affecting Libya and the often-deadly route across the Mediterranean toward Europe. The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. High...
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July 09, 2019 - 9:08 am

UN says death toll from Libya fighting passes 1,000

CAIRO (AP) — The battle between rival militias for the Libyan capital has killed more than 1,000 people since it began in April, the U.N. said Tuesday, a grim milestone in a stalemated conflict partly fueled by regional powers. Forces loyal to Khalifa Hifter, a veteran army officer, opened an...
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