Migration News
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Bihac -
Bosnian authorities on Tuesday began to move several hundred migrants out of a ramshackle camp near the Croatian border following international condemnation of the site's inhumane conditions.
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Geneva -
The UN launched a humanitarian appeal for nearly $29 billion on Wednesday as climate change and increasingly protracted conflicts put tens of millions of people in urgent need of aid.
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Paris -
Of the many people who made history in 2019, some surprised themselves and the world by emerging from obscurity to make their mark, though one remains anonymous for the time being -- "The Whistleblower" behind the impeachment probe into US President Do...
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Sarajevo -
Bosnia should urgently close a temporary migrant camp or people will "start to die" during the winter period, a European human rights official warned Tuesday.
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Tajurah -
Libya's navy said Saturday it had rescued 205 migrants in an operation off the coast of Tripoli.
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Dien Chau -
Throngs of weeping relatives on Thursday buried the first of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last month, in emotional ceremonies for the young victims whose deaths have rattled their rural towns.
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Dien Chau -
The families of some of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain prepared for emotional burials for their children Thursday after an agonising weeks-long wait to bring their bodies home.
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Vietnam -
The families of some of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain prepared for emotional burials for their children Thursday after an agonising weeks-long wait to bring their bodies home.
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Apo -
The head of the charity Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday called for authorities to "urgently evacuate" vulnerable migrants from badly overcrowded camps on Greek islands.
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Dien Chau -
They wailed and clutched white roses, praying for their dead -- families of two cousins who were among 39 Vietnamese found in a truck in Britain held emotional homecomings for the young men Wednesday.
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Hoan Kiem -
The first remains of the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain last month arrived in Vietnam Wednesday where they were met by huge crowds of sobbing relatives who have been waiting weeks for their return.
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Athens -
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday announced a new scheme to protect unaccompanied migrant minors reaching the country, two days after condemning other EU states for their lack of solidarity.
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Washington -
Greece's migration minister said that Turkey needs to stop "blackmail" if it wants more EU aid, saying its loaded language had prompted a spike in movement toward Greek shores.
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Geneva -
An independent UN expert has apologised for misspeaking during a news conference in Geneva this week, correcting his claim that more than 100,000 children were being held in migration-related US detention.
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Geneva -
More than 100,000 children are currently being held in migration-related detention in the United States, often in violation of international law, the UN said Monday.
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Geneva -
More than 100,000 children are currently being held in migration-related detention in the United States, including those held with their parents and minors detained alone, the UN said Monday.
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Gutierrez -
A caravan made up of 50 parents of disappeared Central American migrants departed on Friday from Mexico's southern border for a cross-country journey in search of their missing relatives.
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Apo -
The incoming European Commission chief has changed the title of her migration commissioner from "Protecting our European Way of Life" following criticism it had far-right connotations, an EU official said Wednesday.
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Hanoi -
British police on Friday confirmed the names of the 39 victims, who are all Vietnamese nationals, found dead in a refrigerated truck in southeast England last month.
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London -
British police on Friday released the names of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a refrigerated truck last month, including two 15-year-old boys.
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Apo -
The EU on Friday formally established its first standalone border force, boosting the Frontex service with a new permanent corps that will number 10,000 officers by 2027.
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London -
Vietnam said Thursday it was working to repatriate 39 bodies now identified as Vietnamese nationals found in a truck near London last month, in a case that exposed the deadly risks of illegal migration to Europe.
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Paris -
When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down 30 years ago, many hoped its demise portended an end to barriers between borders and isolationism.
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Sofia -
Bulgaria on Saturday said it would summon France's ambassador to Sofia on Monday over "insulting" comments about immigration by French President Emmanuel Macron sparked outrage.
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Sofia -
Bulgaria on Saturday said it would summon France's ambassador to Sofia on Monday after comments about immigration by French President Emmanuel Macron sparked outrage.
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Belfast -
British detectives probing the deaths of 39 Asian migrants in a refrigerated truck near London renewed on Friday their appeal for two brothers in the haulage business to help with the investigation.
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Apo -
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland likely broke EU law by refusing to take in asylum-seekers at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, the top EU court's legal advisor said Thursday.
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Apo -
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland likely broke EU law by refusing to take in asylum-seekers at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, the top EU court's legal advisor said Thursday.
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The traffickers have gone underground but they'll come back, villagers and brokers say, with the deaths of 39 migrants in a truck in Britain unlikely to deter the country's vast pool of rural Vietnamese from making perilous journeys abroad.
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Hanoi -
AFP has spoken to several families of Vietnamese nationals missing in Britain, feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Essex last week.
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Migration Image
Lions, hyenas and crocodiles lie in wait along the path of the great migration. YouTube
False Pass, Alaska is also the name given the Isanoyski Strait that gray whales will sometimes use on their journey to the Bering Sea. Here many fall prey to Killer whales. Shishaldin
Sandfill cranes in the Platte River valley in Nebraska, March 7, 2007. Mongo
White-rumped sandpiper chicks on northern Canada's Bylot Island. Laura McKinnon/NPR.org
Map of human migration out of Africa unknown
This baby zebra, born right before the herd started crossing the Mara River, didn't make it. Smithsonian Channel
The Red Knot, Calidris canutus, makes a yearly journey from southern Argentina to the Canadian Arctic in the spring. Audubun.org/Doug Wechsler
Red Phalarope at a shoreline. Gerry Beyersbergen/Environment and Climate Change Canada,
The gray whale MPF / NOAA
Millions of hermit crabs descend on a beach on St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Screen Capture
A Tumstone at the edge of a snow patch. University of Queensland
Various views of the Manot 1 partial calvaria. Hershkovitz et. al.
North American Indian migration into North Dakota National Park Service
Wildebeest, zebras and other mammals crossing the Mara River do so even with the danger of crocodiles. MBC Documentary
Migration out of Africa Spreading homo Sapiens.jpg which is in the public domain
Blacktip shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Monterey Bay Aquarium
The western North American population of monarch butterflies migrates to Southern California. Here we see some monarchs On a Eucalyptus branch at Sweet Springs in Baywood-Los Osos. Located near Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, central California. "Mike" Michael L. Baird
In 2012, the Mexican government announced the acquisition through a 15-year lease of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. President Enrique Peña Nieto used the aircraft for the first time at the Air Force 101st anniversary ceremony on 10 February 2016. Presidencia de la República Mexicana
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