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Judge Daniela Monaco Crea reads the sentence on Tuesday in the trial against ship captain Mohammed Ali Malek and crewmate Mahmud Bikhit in the April 2015 shipwreck off Libya that killed 700 people.

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Italy Convicts 2 Men For Shipwreck That Killed Some 700 Migrants

5:11pm December 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

A Sicily court has convicted the ship's captain and another man over the wreck involving hundreds of migrants in April 2015. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean.

A recently arrived migrant (right) receives clothes at Paris welcome center for migrants that opened earlier this month. They can stay for up to 10 days, but are then moved to migrant centers around the country.

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For Newly Arrived Migrants, Paris Offers An Upgraded Welcome

3:18pm November 25, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

It's taken a while, but Paris finally has a safe place for migrants congregating in the city. A new facility has been opened which offers asylum seekers showers, medical care and a bed.

Haitian nationals at a Mexican government immigration office near the port of entry between Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and Nogales, Ariz., wait day after day for appointments with U.S. immigration agents so they can enter. As a result of the Haitian influx

At The U.S.-Mexico Border, Haitians Arrive To A Harsh Reception

1:59pm November 23, 2016

by John Burnett

By way of Brazil, where they migrated in recent years, many Haitians are now hoping to resettle in the U.S. But a shift in policy has left some 5,000 stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani with Sharbat Gula (center) at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Wednesday.

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Woman In Iconic 'Afghan Girl' Photo Deported Back To Afghanistan

5:34pm November 09, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Sharbat Gula, who appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1984, was returned to her native country Wednesday. Pakistan had accused her of illegally obtaining identity documents.

A family disembarks from the Topaz Responder, a rescue ship, Oct. 27 at Brindisi in southern Italy. The ship arrived with 347 migrants and refugees from Central Africa and Syria following a rescue operation off the Libyan coast.

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Italy Becomes A Leading Destination For Migrants, Matching Greece

8:29am November 05, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Italy received almost 160,000 arrivals this year and the nation says it can't manage the flow. Meanwhile, it's creating a DNA database to help ID migrants who've perished on the way.

Migrants from Jalabad, Afghanistan, drink tea at the camp on Monday as authorities began processing and evicting residents.

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PHOTOS: France Begins Evicting Thousands Of Migrants From Notorious 'Jungle' Camp

5:59pm October 24, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

French security forces intend to dismantle the squalid camp that, despite its poor living conditions, has housed thousands of people who fled wars or poverty for a better life in Europe.

Egyptians wait on shore in Rosetta on Sept. 22 as a coast guard boat arrives carrying the bodies recovered from a boat that capsized off Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

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Seeking A Better Life, A Migrant Survives A Shipwreck And Wonders What's Next

10:07am October 02, 2016

by Jane Arraf

More than 200 migrants drowned on Sept. 21 trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, in search of better lives. A survivor explains why he risked the journey.

Migrants walk past makeshift shops and shelters by the Jungle Books Cafe at the Jungle camp on Sept. 6 in Calais. Overcrowding has become an issue in the camp. "I imagined a little camp," says Calais resident Nicole Cordier, who has protested against The

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For One French Woman, An Eye-Opening Visit To Calais' Refugee 'Jungle'

12:39pm September 13, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

The camp has grown to 9,000 people. Calais residents oppose it and want it shut down for good. But when one protester goes there for the first time, she is moved and surprised by what she sees.

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A Costa Rican Red Cross member distributes food to migrants in an encampment of Africans in Penas Blancas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on July 19. In a makeshift camp hundreds of tents shelter Haitians, Congolese, Senegalese and Ghanaian migrants waiting to c

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Costa Rica Becomes A Magnet For Migrants

6:35pm September 01, 2016

by Carrie Kahn

Peaceful and relatively prosperous, Costa Rica hasn't traditionally been a crossroads for migrants. But they have been descending on the country in growing numbers, straining resources.

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Australian protesters demonstrate in Melbourne on Feb. 4 after the Australian High Court upheld a challenge to the government's right to hold asylum seekers at detention camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

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What Happens When An Aid Group Sees Abuse, But Is Sworn To Secrecy?

8:16pm August 25, 2016

Save the Children had to sign confidentiality agreements to work at a migrant detention camp run by Australia in Nauru. The group's Mat Tinkler discusses what they did and didn't say about abuses.

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