Migration News
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The United Nations on Friday forecast that 5.3 million Venezuelans will have fled the country by the end of next year, an exodus that amounts to "a humanitarian earthquake".
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From the Central American caravans trekking desperately northward to the mass exodus from Venezuela, 2018 was the year the migration crisis swept the Americas and reached the doorstep of the United States.
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As heads of state and government jetted out of Morocco on Tuesday after formally adopting a UN deal on migration, NGOs raised doubts about its implementation on the ground and the high seas.
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Marrakesh -
A United Nations conference adopted a migration pact in front of leaders and representatives from over 160 countries in Morocco on Monday, despite a string of withdrawals driven by anti-immigrant populism.
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Politicians from around the globe will gather Monday in Morocco for a major conference to endorse a United Nations migration pact, despite a string of withdrawals driven by anti-immigrant populism.
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Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel is now at the helm of a minority government after the Flemish nationalist party on Sunday quit the ruling coalition over his support of a UN migration pact widely opposed by anti-immigrant populists.
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Belgium's Flemish nationalist party said on Sunday it will quit the ruling coalition, leaving Prime Minister Charles Michel as the head of a minority government after a row over a UN migration pact.
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New York -
Days ahead of an international conference in Morocco to endorse a UN migration pact, the United States made the case Friday for opposing the deal that it shunned a year ago and which has since prompted a wave of withdrawals.
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Fleeing Rohingya Muslims sold ration books to help pay hundreds of dollars to traffickers in order to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat, only to be stopped at sea and forced back destitute, the refugees told AFP on Friday.
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Paris -
This decade has seen massive movements of people fleeing war, poverty and persecution. Here are some key cases.
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Marrakesh -
UN special representative for migration Louise Arbour says she is "very confident" on the future of an international pact on migration despite a string of countries opting out.
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Riga -
Latvia on Thursday rejected the United Nations migration pact set to be adopted next week, following similar moves by several other European countries as well as Australia and the United States.
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Riga -
Latvia on Thursday rejected the United Nations migration pact set to be adopted next month, following similar moves by several other European countries as well as Australia and the United States.
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The European Union's flagship plan for a 10,000-strong bloc-wide border and coastguard force in two years exceeds "what is feasible," the EU's Austrian presidency said Thursday.
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Berlin -
Opening Germany's doors to more than a million refugees may come to define Chancellor Angela Merkel's legacy, a landmark moment in her career that sparked a backlash which could hasten her political exit.
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Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel won the support of parliament to sign a UN accord on migration on Wednesday, amid a row that threatens to tear apart his coalition.
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Rome -
A rights group called Wednesday for an international criminal investigation after 15 migrants died following 11 days drifting off the coast of Libya without help.
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Wissant -
In early November, police in the northern French village of Wissant made the first of a series of unusual discoveries in the sand dunes: an inflatable boat intended to ferry migrants in the dead of night to Britain.
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Sofia -
Bulgaria's government confirmed on Wednesday that it would not join the United Nations pact for better regulating worldwide migration, set to be adopted later this month.
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Rome -
Italy on Wednesday adopted far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's tough anti-migrant and security decree, despite fierce criticism from the left.
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Soyapango -
Facing the majestic Chinchontepec volcano a seemingly bucolic path runs past a suburb of El Salvador's capital -- but this "devil's alley" is nothing but a strip of homes emptied by gang violence and swallowed by tropical vegetation.
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Rome -
Italy's parliament will have the last word on the UN migration pact, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday, so its officials will not attend a conference next month to ratify it.
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New York -
A United Nations envoy on Tuesday took a swipe at countries dropping out of the UN migration pact, saying they were displaying "buyer's remorse" months after endorsing the non-binding deal.
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Sansalvador -
As a group of migrants prepare to form a new caravan to set out from El Salvador for the promised land of the United States, eager participants exchange messages over social media.How will they cross the border? What should they bring?
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Sydney -
Australia's conservative government announced Wednesday it would reject a UN migration pact already denounced by the United States and several European countries.Adopting the pact "would risk encouraging illegal entry to Australia and reverse...
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Tijuana -
The Central American migrant caravan faced a desperate situation Friday as its numbers swelled at the US-Mexican border, where it got a cold welcome and a warning that its chances of entering the United States were "almost nil.
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Tijuana -
Mexican authorities said Friday more than 2,000 Central Americans from a migrant caravan heading toward the United States have now reached the border city of Tijuana, where they have received a sometimes cold welcome.
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Geneva -
A group of United Nations human rights experts said Thursday they had suspended a trip to Hungary after the government denied them access to sites where migrants are being held.
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Pomezia -
Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday met dozens of African migrants, recently evacuated from Libya by the UN, and sought to reassure them that Italy is "a welcoming, generous and supportive country".
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Tepic -
Since the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump has barely mentioned the "hardened criminals" he warned were about to "assault" the United States from a Central American migrant caravan.
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Migration Image
Blacktip shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Monterey Bay Aquarium
White-rumped sandpiper chicks on northern Canada's Bylot Island. Laura McKinnon/NPR.org
Various views of the Manot 1 partial calvaria. Hershkovitz et. al.
Migration out of Africa Spreading homo Sapiens.jpg which is in the public domain
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
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,
Map of human migration out of Africa unknown
Lions, hyenas and crocodiles lie in wait along the path of the great migration. YouTube
Wildebeest, zebras and other mammals crossing the Mara River do so even with the danger of crocodiles. MBC Documentary
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
A Tumstone at the edge of a snow patch. University of Queensland
Millions of hermit crabs descend on a beach on St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Screen Capture
The gray whale MPF / NOAA
Sandfill cranes in the Platte River valley in Nebraska, March 7, 2007. Mongo
Genetic information from Ethiopians and Egyptians point to a Northern exit out of Africa as the most likely route by the ancestors of all Eurasians. Image credit: Luca Pagani. Luca Pagani
This baby zebra, born right before the herd started crossing the Mara River, didn't make it. Smithsonian Channel
North American Indian migration into North Dakota National Park Service
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