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KERKENNAH, Tunisia (AFP) — The Tunisian navy has recovered four more corpses from a deadly shipwreck of migrants over the weekend, bringing the official number of victims to 52, the interior ministry said Tuesday. “The toll is now at 52 corpses recovered, 48 of which have been identified,” ministry spokesman Khalifa Chibani told AFP. Chibani said the identified bodies belonged to “36 Tunisians and 12 foreigners”, referring to migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. A total of […]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) — At least 150 Central American migrants reached the border between Mexico and the United States on Sunday, determined to seek asylum from the US. The group arrived in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, part of a caravan of more than 1,000 people who set out from Mexico’s southern border on March 25. “We still need to ask for asylum and we hope the US government will open the doors,” Reyna […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday launched a fresh attack on a European Union plan to share thousands of migrants around the bloc, saying that forcing his country to partake in the scheme bordered on “violence.” The comments came a day after the European Court of Justice, the bloc’s top court, rejected a legal challenge to the relocation plan lodged by Hungary and Slovakia. They also followed criticism by EU […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday promised that his government would redouble its efforts to handle the influx of migrants illegally entering the country from the United States to seek asylum. “I want to reassure Canadians that we are ensuring that the capacity to deal with these refugees is in place and our immigration system remains strong and robust,” Trudeau told a press conference. “We are an open and compassionate […]
OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) — Canada will offer temporary residency to people stranded in the country as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said on Sunday (January 29). “We will continue to ensure that our immigration system is about compassion, efficiency and economic opportunity and the protection of the health, safety and security of canadians. We welcome that fleeing persecution, terror, and war,” said Hussen at […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence Presse France WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama on Thursday ended a five-decade-old open door policy for Cuba migrants, who will now face similar residency restrictions to other citizens from Latin America. In one of his final acts before leaving the White House, Obama scrapped rules dating back to the 1960s which allowed those fleeing communist Cuba a fast track to US citizenship. In a statement, Obama said […]
ABOARD THE ASTRAL, Italy (AFP) — Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said. The photographer, who was able to go aboard the vessel, said it appeared that many of the dead had suffocated. He said there were about 1,000 people on three levels. He counted 22 bodies and said […]
ROSETTA, Egypt (AFP) – by Haitham El-Tabei Rescuers brought more bodies to shore on Thursday a day after a boat crowded with migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, drowning at least 51 people. Survivors said up to 450 migrants were on board the fishing vessel when it sank about 12 kilometres (eight miles) off the coast of Rosetta, an Egyptian Mediterranean port city, on Wednesday morning. The military has said 163 survivors have been […]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (Reuters) — Actress Angelina Jolie joined U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for meetings regarding the plight of migrants on World Refugee Day on Monday (June 20). “We cannot ignore or turn our backs on” the more than 65 million people displaced by conflict, Jolie, a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said. Jolie met with several refugees at the State Department in Washington and participated […]
