EU migration

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, top center, addresses the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament in Rome Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.

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Italy's lower chamber of parliament approves deal with Albania to house migrants

3:25am January 25, 2024

by The Associated Press

The proposal, which passed 155-115 with two abstentions in the Chamber of Deputies, now goes to the Senate, where Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing forces also have a comfortable majority.

The Sos Mediterranee-run charity rescue ship, Ocean Viking, is moored in Bari, southern Italy, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.

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Italy's regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean

2:44am January 17, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Ocean Viking has been impounded, as Italy targets charity groups that operate vessels in the Mediterranean Sea looking for migrants and refugees in distress.

A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, southeast of Berlin, Oct. 11. On Wednesday, European Union leaders hailed a major breakthrough in talks on new rules to control migration.

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The EU agrees on a migration deal, but critics warn of possible rights abuses

10:11am December 20, 2023

by The Associated Press

The European Union agreed on a major overhaul of rules that many hope will address challenges posed by migrant arrivals in the last decade. Critics warn the reforms may weaken asylum-seekers' rights.

This handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on June 14 shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece, drowning hundreds of migrants.

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Nearly 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean this year. Here's why

10:33am June 28, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

Flimsy boats, EU policies and an increase in migrants attempting the crossing are some of the factors converging to make this year an especially deadly one.

Mayor Wojciech Bakun of Przemysl, Poland, estimates that 350,000 refugees have arrived in his Polish border town since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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This Polish mayor has become a hero for Ukrainians in crisis. But what of his past?

6:09pm March 11, 2022

Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front-line humanitarian worker dealing with the rush of refugees from Ukraine. And some onlookers have been surprised by his response too.

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Blend, a Kurd from Iraq, considers himself lucky. He has only spent 14 days in a camp on the Belarusian side of the border and five days in the woods after crossing to the Polish side. When his kidney problems started to become unbearable because of lack

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This photographer captured how activists helped migrants at the Poland-Belarus border

10:48am January 03, 2022

Polish-based photographer Kasia Strek documented what it was like for migrants and people in Poland as the crisis evolved at the border in November.

Migrants aiming to cross into Poland camp near the Bruzgi-Kuznica border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border on Nov. 17.

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Syrians say Belarus deported them even though they're wanted by Assad's regime

4:41pm December 24, 2021

After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR.

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Raydel Aparicio Bringa (left) and Doniel Machado Pujol are photographed while being apprehended by Poland's Border Guard in the town of Sokolka, on the Polish border with Belarus. The two men, from Cuba, are among thousands of migrants from impoverished o

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Belarus' Lukashenko is accused of creating Europe's latest migration crisis

4:27pm October 12, 2021

by Rob Schmitz

Poland has stopped some 16,000 migrants crossing its border from Belarus since August, and accuses Belarus' authoritarian regime of facilitating illegal migration into the European Union.