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Refugees

Health & Medicine

Nigerians attack medics at Rome coronavirus centre

August 29, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Three Nigerian migrants attacked staff in a military hospital in Rome after testing positive for the new coronavirus, the defence ministry said Saturday. The incident at the Celio military hospital, now turned into a COVID-19 treatment centre, occurred when they saw […]

Government & Politics

Europe still mired in division after migrant crisis

August 29, 2020 Romain Fonsegrives  

(AFP) Since taking in more than a million people fleeing war and poverty in 2015, Europe has stepped up border controls but still falls short on common migration and asylum policies. At the time, the migrant crisis “laid bare Europe’s structural flaws […]

Government & Politics

Five years after refugee influx, Merkel ‘would do the same’

August 28, 2020 Isabelle Le Page and Femke Colborne  

(AFP) Five years after Germany controversially took in hundreds of thousands of migrants, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday she would do the same again as she rides a wave of popularity for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “I would make essentially […]

Government & Politics

Asylum-seeker returns flight is halted by legal challenges

August 27, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A plane due to remove asylum-seekers from the UK has been cancelled after legal challenges. The Home Office said the charter flight was “paused” to allow time for the applications to be considered. On Wednesday, 12 migrants were returned to France […]

Immigration

Tensions grow as Bosnian authorities crack down on migrants

August 27, 2020 Sabina Niksic  

(AP) Tensions are growing in the northwestern Bosnia after local authorities launched a widespread crackdown on thousands of migrants stranded in the area and set up police roadblocks to prevent more Europe-bound newcomers from arriving. Authorities in Bosnia’s Krajina region, which borders […]

Children & Teens

Greece sends 28 more ailing migrant children to Germany

August 26, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Another group of children with medical needs who have been living in migrant camps in Greece arrived in Germany on Wednesday with their close relatives, a transfer that was delayed by coronavirus cases in two families, the German government said. In […]

Government & Politics

Asylum seekers in last-minute UK legal bid to prevent removal (LINK ONLY)

August 25, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants return to dangerous Canary Islands route

August 25, 2020 Daniel Bosque and Thomas Perroteau  

(AFP) Heightened security in the Mediterranean is pushing more migrants seeking a better life in Europe to try the longer — and more dangerous — Atlantic crossing to Spain’s Canary Islands, which have seen a surge in arrivals. Use of the route […]

Crime

Austria arrests Syrian over attacks on Jewish leader, synagogue

August 24, 2020 Francois Murphy  

(Reuters) Austria has arrested a 31-year-old Syrian refugee suspected of carrying out attacks last week on a Jewish community leader and a synagogue in Austria’s second city Graz, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Monday. The leader of Graz’s Jewish community association, […]

Government & Politics

Greece to extend fence on land border with Turkey to deter migrants

August 24, 2020 Renee Maltezou  

(Reuters) Greece will proceed with plans to extend a cement and barbed-wire fence that it set up in 2012 along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country, the government said on Monday. The conservative government made the […]

Government & Politics

Sicily rows with Rome over closure of migrant centres

August 23, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Sicily’s right-leaning leader Nello Musumeci clashed with Italy’s central government on Sunday when he ordered the island’s migrant centres closed in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Interior ministry officials in Rome dismissed the order as invalid but […]

Children & Teens

Quarter of ‘child’ migrants crossing Channel are over 18, says Kent council (LINK ONLY)

August 22, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

More than 5,000 migrants reach UK by small boat in 2020 (LINK ONLY)

August 21, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants play dangerous cat-and-mouse game with police in Calais

August 21, 2020 Pascal Rossignol  

(Reuters) Standing in front of the remains of dozens of inflatable craft in the backyard of a police station, Captain Eric Binet has a message for migrants considering the sea crossing to Britain: don’t risk your lives. Warm weather and a deceptively […]

Crime

Channel crossings: Migrant jailed for smuggling people in dinghy

August 20, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A Sudanese man has been jailed for smuggling himself and nine other migrants into the UK in a dinghy. Altaib Mobarak, 43, steered the boat across the English Channel on 7 July. He was given a two-year sentence at Canterbury Crown […]

Government & Politics

Fate of migrants entwined in Brexit talks as EU holds out on deal

August 20, 2020 Gabriela Baczynska  

(Reuters) The European Union has so far rebuffed British calls for talks on a deal to allow London to send unwanted migrants back to Europe from 2021, and could use the issue as potential leverage in wider Brexit negotiations, diplomats and officials […]

Health & Medicine

Suspect in Berlin highway attack moved to psychiatric jail

August 19, 2020 Kirsten Grieshaber  

(AP) German authorities on Wednesday ordered a 30-year-old man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway and injuring six people moved to a psychiatric jail, as investigators continue to probe the man’s motives. Officials said […]

Immigration

Majority of migrants crossing sea to get to EU not in need of protection, says UN envoy (LINK ONLY)

August 18, 2020 EoI News  

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Children & Teens

Kent unable to take in more unaccompanied child refugees, council says (LINK ONLY)

August 17, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants: Record number of Channel crossings in August

August 17, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) More than 1,200 migrants have made the crossing across the English Channel in small boats already in August, a record for a single month. Eight vessels carrying 112 people were intercepted by Border Force patrols on Sunday. On Saturday, 65 people […]

Government & Politics

Italy wants no more illegal migrants, minister tells Tunisia

August 17, 2020 Fethi Belaid  

(AFP) Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a visit to Tunisia, from where many of them cross the Mediterranean Sea. After a meeting with the Tunisian President Kais Saied, Italy’s top […]

Crime

Police foil reprisal operation by Chechens in French town

August 16, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) France’s interior minister on Sunday vowed that no community would be allowed to take the law into its own hands after police thwarted a bid by Chechens to violently avenge an alleged assault on a member of their community. Three men […]

Immigration

North Macedonia police find 80 migrants, arrest truck driver

August 16, 2020 Konstantin Testorides  

(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Sunday they have found 80 migrants during a routine check in the central part of the country and arrested a truck driver for suspected migrant smuggling. Police said in a statement that 79 Pakistanis and an […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Priti Patel in racist French storm: Home secretary enrages Paris (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Calais superstore ‘fuelling Channel crisis by flogging life jackets, paddles and bilge pump to migrants’ (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

More than 1,000 migrants arrive in UK in 10 days after Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Royal Navy called in to help tackle Channel migrant crisis (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

August 15, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AP) The number of migrants reaching Italy by sea shot up from the previous 12-month period, but in contrast to recent years, the majority of the arrivals didn’t need rescue and made it to shore by themselves. According to Interior Ministry figures […]

Health & Medicine

Greece reports first coronavirus case in island camp

August 13, 2020 John Hadoulis  

(AFP) Greece on Thursday reported its first novel coronavirus infection in one of its overcrowded asylum seeker camps. A 35-year-old man from Yemen living at the camp of Vial on the island of Chios tested positive late on Wednesday, a migration ministry […]

Immigration

UK Royal Air Force sends plane to help monitor migrant crossings

August 12, 2020 Costas Pitas  

(Reuters) Britain’s Royal Air Force has sent a maritime patrol aircraft to help support border control operations in the English Channel after an increase in migrants seeking to cross from France. Taking advantage of hot weather and calm sea conditions, hundreds of […]

Immigration

Channel migrants: Six boats carrying 71 migrants intercepted

August 12, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Six small boats carrying 71 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel. The Home Office said Border Force and partner agencies dealt with several incidents off the UK coast on Wednesday. Dan O’Mahoney, the newly appointed “clandestine channel threat commander,” said […]

Government & Politics

Asylum seeker removal flight takes off despite last-minute court actions (LINK ONLY)

August 12, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

North Macedonia: Police find 148 migrants in trucks

August 12, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 148 migrants crammed into trucks in two separate operations in central and northern parts of the country, and have arrested two men on suspicion of trafficking migrants. Police said their patrol stopped a […]

Government & Politics

Volunteers in Bristol sought to host asylum seekers in homes

August 11, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) People in Bristol have been urged to host asylum seekers in their homes to prevent them living on the streets. During the coronavirus pandemic, the city council has housed a number of them in hotels across Bristol but the arrangement was […]

Immigration

Nearly half of British public have little or no sympathy for migrants crossing Channel from France, survey finds (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Channel crossings: Priti Patel was warned government policies were pushing migrants into dangerous voyages nine months ago (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

UK and France working ‘at pace’ on plan to halt migrant Channel crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Asylum seekers launch legal challenge against their removal from UK (LINK ONLY)

August 11, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Migrant crossings: Use of navy ships to stop boats ‘dangerous’

August 10, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Using Royal Navy ships to help stop migrants crossing the English Channel is “dangerous” and “won’t change anything,” a Calais politician says. On Saturday the Home Office asked defence chiefs for help to make crossings in small boats “unviable.” The Home […]

Government & Politics

Johnson: Migrant crossings ‘bad, stupid, dangerous and criminal’ (LINK ONLY)

August 10, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Further 65 migrants picked up in English Channel

August 9, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A further four boats carrying 65 migrants have been picked up in the English Channel, the Home Office said. Border Force patrols found the boats travelling towards the UK on Sunday, a day after at least 151 migrants on 15 boats […]

Government & Politics

More than 4,000 migrants reach UK by small boats in 2020 (LINK ONLY)

August 9, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

North Macedonia police find 94 migrants hidden in truck

August 9, 2020 Konstantin Testorides  

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have found 94 migrants packed into a truck in … the country’s southeast. A police patrol stopped the truck with Macedonian national license plates late Saturday near the town of Radovish, 110 kilometers (68 miles) […]

Government & Politics

French demand £30m to stop migrants crossing Channel (LINK ONLY)

August 8, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Polish border guards detain 34 people from Middle East found in a lorry

August 8, 2020 Alicja Ptak and Marcin Goclowski  

(Reuters) Polish border guards have detained 34 people from the Middle East, including four women and four children, who were traveling in a trailer of the lorry that came from Turkey via Slovakia, authorities said on Saturday. They were detained on Friday […]

Government & Politics

Home Office seeks military help over migrant crossings

August 8, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) Defence chiefs are considering a request from the Home Office for help to deal with migrants attempting to cross the English Channel. The government is looking at using boats to “prevent people from leaving,” Schools Ministers Nick Gibb said. It comes […]

Government & Politics

Only one in 40 migrants who arrive in UK on small boats are sent back across the Channel (LINK ONLY)

August 7, 2020 EoI News  

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Immigration

Migrants adrift after camp at France-Italy border shut

August 7, 2020 Claudine Renaud  

(AFP) Sudanese migrant Soulaimen has been sleeping on the beach in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia for 10 days now. With his only shelter a sleeping bag and pasta meals donated by a charity, the 20-year-old is getting by as best […]

Government & Politics

New record set for number of migrants crossing the Channel in a day (LINK ONLY)

August 6, 2020 EoI News  

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Government & Politics

Inquiry launched into huge rise in migrant crossings (LINK ONLY)

August 6, 2020 EoI News  

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