Euronews says at least 25 migrants are feared to have died at sea during an attempted sea crossing near Spain’s Canary Islands. Police said that several migrants were “thrown overboard”
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Euronews says the bodies of seven suspected migrants have been found on the shore of the Greek island of Lesbos, the coastguard has said.
Aljazeera says Italy rescued nearly 600 people packed into overcrowded fishing boats in bad weather off the coast of Calabria.
Euronews says Austrian police say they found eight migrants in life-threatening conditions hidden inside a narrow wooden pallet box that had been attached to the underside of a truck.
TRT World says Turkish authorities have recovered 12 bodies believed to be those of asylum seekers who were pushed back by Greece.
The Independent says 7 Bangladeshi migrants have died of hypothermia after crossing the Mediterranean on a boat from Libya towards the Italian island of Lampedusa
France24 says Rescue crews searched waters off Florida’s Atlantic shore on Tuesday for 39 people reported missing by a survivor found clinging to a boat that capsized.
The Metro says Dozens of people have risked their lives in treacherous waters to reach the UK’s shores.
France24 says At least 53 mostly Central American migrants died when the truck transporting them turned over in southern Mexico on Thursday.
The Daily Mirror says France tonight said it would not be “held hostage” by Britain as relations with the UK worsened over Channel migrant crossings.
The Daily Mirror says At least 27 migrants died in the Channel as the lives of these children were put at risk making the same crossing.
BBC News says About 150 British army Royal Engineers will be sent to help reinforce Poland’s border with Belarus, the defence secretary has said.
Lithuania’s parliament has voted to build a fence on the Belarus border to stop Iraqis, Afghans and other non-EU migrants entering.
The highest ever single-day total of migrants sailed across the Channel and arrived in the UK on Monday.
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Britain and France agree to join together to fight migrant traffickers. The interior ministers of Britain and France have signed an agreement creating a new…
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