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Mediterranean immigrant crossings hit 224,000 in 2015
The United Nations refugee agency says some 224,000 invading migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year.
William Spindler, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said that by the end of July, around 224,000 refugees had arrived in Europe by sea.
Spindler also warned that the continent could brace and grapple with a high-scale...
Over 800 illegal immigrants heading to Italy from Libya die in shipwreck
An Italian Navy officer gives instructions to migrants waiting to disembark from Italian Navy ship “Driade” in Messina’s port, Sicily, Italy, April 18, 2015.
The UN refugee agency has confirmed that 800 people lost their lives in a ship accident in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.
“We can say that 800 are dead,” said Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner...
Italy rescues 2164 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea
Italy moved in to rescue over 2,100 migrants on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Italian coastguard has rescued a total of 2,164 people as part of a major rescue operation to try to save migrants in trouble in the Mediterranean Sea.
Italian media reported on Sunday that all migrants aboard 12 boats that set out from Libya’s coast have been helped to safety near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Humanitarian crisis looms in East Ukraine
A view of a house razed during a Ukrainian army strike in Stanitsa Luganskaya village, east Ukraine.
Amnesty International has warned that the violence-scarred eastern Ukraine is sliding toward a humanitarian disaster as local residents struggle to get food as well as medicine.
Denis Krivosheev, deputy director of Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, said on Thursday that the people in...
German citizens encouraged to move immigrants into their homes
A German politician has called for a new law to be put in place which would allow German citizens to give immigrants free lodging in their own homes, rather than the German government building new homes.
Martin Patzelt, a lawmaker and member of the Christian Democratic Union, said moving immigrants (claiming to be refugees) into private homes, would mean immigrants cost the state less money, with...
Over 400,000 flee homes in east Ukraine
Ukrainian people sit inside a makeshift shelter in the town of Makiyivka on August 19, 2014.
The UN refugee agency says over 400,000 people have fled their homes due to the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that some 190,000 Ukrainians have been displaced within the country and 225,883 others have fled to Russia, Poland and Belarus.
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