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Suella Braverman

01 Nov 2022

Suella Braverman, Indian-origin UK Home Min calls migrant crisis 'invasion'

Indian-origin UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday said that migrants have launched an "invasion on our southern coast". "Let`s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress.

02 Dec 2021

Europe's migrant crisis dominates Pope Francis' Cyprus-Greece trip

Francis is expected to raise the migration question 'and Cyprus' nearly half-century division when he arrives in Nicosia The visit will also take him back to Lesbos, where in 2016 he brought a dozen Syrian migrants home with him from a refugee camp Francis is also meeting with the Orthodox leaders in both Cyprus and Greece, as well as the small local Catholic communities in each country

EU migrant crisis

25 Oct 2016

Italy PM Matteo Renzi threatens EU budget veto over migrants

Asked if he was ready to use Italy`s veto to torpedo the EU`s budget, he said: "Yes, absolutely."

Migrant boat reaches Sicily

25 Oct 2016

Boat with 1,100 migrants, 17 corpses reaches Sicily

As the boat docked at Palermo on Monday, workers from the Red Cross, Catholic charity Caritas and the local health authority were waiting to assist the migrants, who included many minors, Italian officials said.

Migrants in Libiya

22 Oct 2016

1,000 migrants rescued, 9 drown, off Libya

The Italian interior ministry said Friday that more than 146,500 migrants had landed in Italy so far this year.

28 Apr 2016

UN chief slams `increasingly restrictive` EU refugee policies

UN chief Ban Ki-moon hit out Thursday at what he called "increasingly restrictive" refugee policies in Europe as the continent faces its worst migrant crisis in decades.

15 Mar 2016

700 migrants held in Macedonia after crossing Greek border

Some 700 refugees and migrants were being held in Macedonia on Tuesday after they managed to slip across the border from Greece, a frontier that has been shut for a week.

08 Mar 2016

EU agrees to work for Turkish deal on migrants: Luxembourg PM

European Union agrees to work for a deal with Turkey on migrant crisis.

19 Feb 2016

EU, Turkey to hold `special meeting` on migration early March: Tusk

The EU and Turkey will hold a "special meeting" in early March to push forward an aid-for-cooperation deal to curb migrant flows to Europe, European Council President Donald Tusk said Friday.

28 Jan 2016

EU migrant crisis: Sweden plans to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers

Sweden, a country of 9.8 million, took in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015.

European Commission

15 Jan 2016

EU states 'failed to deliver' on migrants: Juncker

So far just 272 refugees have been moved to other countries out of the 160,000 that European Union nations agreed to relocate.

Politics News 2015

31 Dec 2015

Events that shaped the world in 2015

Europe's herculean efforts to address the migrant issue, as a mammoth sea of humanity fleeing from persecution in their native lands, continued to knock on its door to Myanmar's historic elections that saw pro-democracy crusader Aun San Suu Kyi ascending to power for the first time.

10 Nov 2015

Slovenia to tighten border, fears unmanageable migrant wave

Slovenian government has said it would take urgent measures to strengthen control of its Schengen border with Croatia, fearing an expected new wave of migrants would be scarcely manageable.

09 Nov 2015

EU states pledge to move faster on migrant crisis

European Union interior ministers have agreed to deliver more quickly on their promises for tackling the migration crisis as their host called for averting a humanitarian catastrophe with winter approaching.

25 Oct 2015

Refugee flow unabated as EU leaders hold summit on crisis

As thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others kept up their relentless march through the Balkans, European leaders held an emergency summit today to find ways of easing the plight of those caught up in the continent's greatest immigration crisis in decades.

18 Oct 2015

Hungary re-introduces controls on border with Slovenia

Hungary is temporarily re-introducing controls on its border with Slovenia, Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

24 Sep 2015

North Korea blames `evil` US for Europe`s migrant crisis

North Korea on Thursday offered its verdict on the migrant emergency facing Europe, blaming the "evil empire" United States for triggering the continent`s worst refugee crisis since World War II.

20 Sep 2015

Thousands more pour into Austria as EU migrant crisis deepens

Crowded aboard buses and trains, thousands more migrants flooded into Austria on Sunday from countries unable or unwilling to cope with a desperate human tide escaping war and poverty for a better life in western Europe.

13 Sep 2015

Munich buckles under strain of refugee influx as rival protests rage

Authorities in Munich have said they are overwhelmed by the influx of migrants streaming into the Bavarian capital, as Europe-wide protests saw tens of thousands take to the streets in both support of and opposition to refugees.

EU migrant crisis

13 Sep 2015

British new Labour leader calls to help refugees

Jeremy Corbyn, new leader of British Labour Party joined thousands of people in London for a rally in support of refugees, just hours after he won the election.

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