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EU To Invite Taliban Officials To Brussels For Migrant Return Talks
As part of a broader tightening of immigration policies, around 20 EU countries are exploring how to return migrants -- particularly those with criminal convictions -- to Afghanistan.
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Could Iran War Trigger New Refugee Wave? Countries Most Likely To Feel It First
During the Syrian crisis, similar routes brought more than one million migrants into Europe in 2015, triggering political upheaval across several EU countries.
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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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15 EU States Demand Plan To Send Asylum Seekers To Third Countries
Fifteen EU states have demanded a further tightening of the bloc's asylum policy, making it easier to transfer undocumented migrants to third countries, including when they are rescued at sea.
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EU Announces $1 Billion Aid To Lebanon Amid Economic Crisis
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday announced $1 billion in aid for Lebanon during a visit to the country mired in an economic meltdown exacerbated by a migrant crisis and the threat of war with Israel.
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'Historic": Greece Hails Landmark Overhaul Of EU Asylum, Migration Rules
The migration minister for Greece, one of the countries worst affected by arrivals of growing numbers of undocumented migrants, on Wednesday hailed a landmark overhaul of EU asylum and migration rules as a "historic day".
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Faster Deportation, Detention Centres: EU's Proposed Migration Law
EU countries and lawmakers reached an agreement Wednesday on an overhaul of the bloc's laws on handling asylum-seekers and migrants, officials said.
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Belarus Says "Need No Confrontation" With Poland, Urges EU To Take Migrants
President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday Belarus seeks no confrontation with Poland but wants the European Union to take in 2,000 of the migrants stranded on its border, and he added that if the crisis deteriorated "too far, war is unavoidable"
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Border Crisis "Greatest Attempt To Destabilise Europe In 30 Years": Poland
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the EU's eastern frontier, the "greatest attempt to destabilise Europe" since the Cold War.
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Hundreds Of Migrants Arrive Back In Iraq On Flight From Belarus
Hundreds of Iraqis who failed to enter the EU from Belarus returned home Thursday, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Belarus's attempt to "weaponise migration" had to stop.
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Europe Migrant Crisis: Turkey Bans Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis On Flights To Belarus
Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Belarus' capital Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis.
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Indian Doctors In UK Protest Doubling Of Healthcare Surcharge On Migrants
UK-based Indian doctors and healthcare professionals are campaigning against what they describe as an "unfair" doubling of a health surcharge imposed on professionals from outside European Union (EU) living and working in Britain.
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19, Including Kids, Killed As Truck Carrying Migrants Crashes In Turkey
Nineteen people, including children, died on Sunday when a vehicle carrying migrants reportedly heading for EU member Greece plunged off the highway into a waterway in western Turkey.
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Italy Refuses Safe Harbour To Charity Ship Carrying Over A Hundred Migrants
Italy on Monday said it would not offer safe harbour to the 141 people rescued by the humanitarian ship Aquarius off the coast of Libya last week, urging Britain or other European Union allies to take them in.
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After Night-Long Talks, Europe Leaders Agree On Migration Plan
EU leaders struck a deal on migration after all-night talks, the bloc's president Donald Tusk said Friday, after Italy had blocked an agreement until it got more help on the issue.
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EU To Invite Taliban Officials To Brussels For Migrant Return Talks
As part of a broader tightening of immigration policies, around 20 EU countries are exploring how to return migrants -- particularly those with criminal convictions -- to Afghanistan.
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Could Iran War Trigger New Refugee Wave? Countries Most Likely To Feel It First
During the Syrian crisis, similar routes brought more than one million migrants into Europe in 2015, triggering political upheaval across several EU countries.
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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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15 EU States Demand Plan To Send Asylum Seekers To Third Countries
Fifteen EU states have demanded a further tightening of the bloc's asylum policy, making it easier to transfer undocumented migrants to third countries, including when they are rescued at sea.
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EU Announces $1 Billion Aid To Lebanon Amid Economic Crisis
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday announced $1 billion in aid for Lebanon during a visit to the country mired in an economic meltdown exacerbated by a migrant crisis and the threat of war with Israel.
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'Historic": Greece Hails Landmark Overhaul Of EU Asylum, Migration Rules
The migration minister for Greece, one of the countries worst affected by arrivals of growing numbers of undocumented migrants, on Wednesday hailed a landmark overhaul of EU asylum and migration rules as a "historic day".
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Faster Deportation, Detention Centres: EU's Proposed Migration Law
EU countries and lawmakers reached an agreement Wednesday on an overhaul of the bloc's laws on handling asylum-seekers and migrants, officials said.
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Belarus Says "Need No Confrontation" With Poland, Urges EU To Take Migrants
President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday Belarus seeks no confrontation with Poland but wants the European Union to take in 2,000 of the migrants stranded on its border, and he added that if the crisis deteriorated "too far, war is unavoidable"
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Border Crisis "Greatest Attempt To Destabilise Europe In 30 Years": Poland
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the EU's eastern frontier, the "greatest attempt to destabilise Europe" since the Cold War.
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Hundreds Of Migrants Arrive Back In Iraq On Flight From Belarus
Hundreds of Iraqis who failed to enter the EU from Belarus returned home Thursday, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Belarus's attempt to "weaponise migration" had to stop.
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Europe Migrant Crisis: Turkey Bans Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis On Flights To Belarus
Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Belarus' capital Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis.
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Indian Doctors In UK Protest Doubling Of Healthcare Surcharge On Migrants
UK-based Indian doctors and healthcare professionals are campaigning against what they describe as an "unfair" doubling of a health surcharge imposed on professionals from outside European Union (EU) living and working in Britain.
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19, Including Kids, Killed As Truck Carrying Migrants Crashes In Turkey
Nineteen people, including children, died on Sunday when a vehicle carrying migrants reportedly heading for EU member Greece plunged off the highway into a waterway in western Turkey.
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Italy Refuses Safe Harbour To Charity Ship Carrying Over A Hundred Migrants
Italy on Monday said it would not offer safe harbour to the 141 people rescued by the humanitarian ship Aquarius off the coast of Libya last week, urging Britain or other European Union allies to take them in.
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After Night-Long Talks, Europe Leaders Agree On Migration Plan
EU leaders struck a deal on migration after all-night talks, the bloc's president Donald Tusk said Friday, after Italy had blocked an agreement until it got more help on the issue.
