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France’s immigration minister vowed Thursday to tear down tent camps housing hundreds of illegal migrants outside Calais to prevent them from trying to cross the English Channel to Britain.
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AP, Calais
French police raided tent camps for a mass identity check Tuesday and detained nearly 200 people found without residency papers around Calais, an English Channel port...
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AP, Rome
About 140 migrants arrived on Italian territory after being stranded aboard a cargo ship amid a standoff with Malta over who would take them, officials said Monday.
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AP, Rome
Italy agreed Sunday night to accept 140 migrants stranded aboard a Turkish cargo ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean, ending a four-day standoff with Malta...
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AP, Rome
The Italian coast guard delivered 1,000 liters (1,006 quarts) of drinking water to 140 migrants stranded on a Turkish cargo ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean,...
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AP, Rome
About 140 migrants remained stranded aboard a Turkish cargo ship on Saturday night as Malta and Italy argued about which country should accept them.
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AP, Tripoli
An international migration official says more than 200 people are believed dead as more bodies washed ashore in Libya after their overcrowded boat with illegal migrants...
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AP, Beijing
China announced plans Thursday to assist millions of unemployed migrant workers with increases in grain subsidies and rural infrastructure projects, a top Agriculture...
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AP, Geneva
Six African migrants drowned and 11 more are presumed dead after smugglers in the Gulf of Aden forced their passengers overboard in deep water off Yemen, the U.N....
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AP, Madrid
A rickety boat carrying illegal migrants from Morocco capsized in rough seas just off Spain’s Canary Islands and 19 of them drowned, an official and witnesses...
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AP, Veracruz
Mexican officials say they have rescued 79 kidnapped migrants from a house in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
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AP, Bangkok
Two migrants told a refugees’ advocacy group they were detained and beaten by Thai authorities on a remote island and then abandoned in the Indian Ocean in a boat...
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AP, San Juan
The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search Wednesday for at least 12 missing migrants _ including two Sri Lankans _ in choppy waters off the British Virgin Islands...
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AP, San Juan
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AP, San Juan
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AP, Beiya Village
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AP, San'a
Hundreds of people are missing and feared dead after three boats carrying about 400 migrants from Somalia capsized Saturday near Yemen, a U.N. official said.
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AP, Bangkok
Thailand will investigate reports that the Thai navy abandoned migrants on a barge in the ocean where hundreds of them may have drowned, the government said Saturday.
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AP, Mexico City
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