Category: Europe
Nearly 11,000 migrants walked into Austria on Sunday adding to the 10 and a half thousand who’d made the same journey the day before. Aid agencies and the Red Cross were on hand to provide food, drink and medical help… euronews
Several thousand migrants and refugees spend Friday (September 18) night in an open-air sports arena after another failed attempt to walk to Turkey’s land border with Greece. Their progress towards the EU was halted by Turkish authorities because Greece has not offered to accept them. “This passage is not possible,” Dursun Ali Sahin said in […]
What began as an appeal on social media turned into an event that organisers say gathered more than 100,000 people in central London in support of refugees… euronews
The head of the European Parliament has launched a scathing attack on some European countries he accuses of failing to take in refugees. Martin Schulz says amid the European blame game the Mediterranean Sea is being turned into a “mass grave” while “gruesome scenes” are being played out at borders. “We are not dealing with […]
Riot police in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) fired tear gas and reportedly stun grenades on Friday to disperse thousands trying to enter the country from neighbouring Greece. The crowd, from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, many of them Syrian refugees, had spent a night in the open in no-man’s land after […]
The Italian navy said on Saturday that at least 40 migrants drowned after their boat sank en route to Europe across the Mediterranean. “Operation underway… many migrants saved. At least 40 dead,” the Italian navy said in a post on Twitter. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that at least 2,300 people have died […]
More than 1,500 migrants landed on Italian shores on Monday, as the influx of desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty continues. Some 550 migrants were brought to shore in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, including children – among them dozens of unaccompanied minors. More than most, these youngsters face an uncertain future. Rescued by a […]
Almost 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. The bodies of a further 25 people had been recovered, but dozens more were […]
“Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugees have died as of this past weekend,” Itayi Virri, a spokesman for the IOM, said on Tuesday. Also in a statement, the organization said the number of deaths so far this year proves “this route as the deadliest” one for migrants seeking […]
