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Boat carrying 500 asylum seekers disappears in Mediterranean Sea
May 26, 2023 14:21A boat carrying about 500 asylum seekers, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean, according to two humanitarian organizations.
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Biden restricting asylum access at Mexico border as Title 42 ends
May 11, 2023 06:15The United States rolled out a new regulation on Wednesday that will deny asylum to most migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, a key part of President Joe Biden's enforcement plan as COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 end this week.
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Mexico opens homicide probe as number of migrants killed in blaze increases
Mar 30, 2023 12:59Mexican authorities have announced a homicide probe against eight officials who face possible murder charges for the death of 38 migrants in a detention center, accusing them of doing nothing to evacuate the victims.
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Minors from controversial migrant ship Ocean Viking flee French refugee centre
Nov 18, 2022 17:03More than two dozen unaccompanied underage migrants aboard the controversial Ocean Viking refugee rescue ship have gone missing from their reception center, authorities said on Thursday.
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Spanish coast guard rescues 61 migrants at sea, one dead
Aug 10, 2022 16:42Spanish coast guards rescued 61 sub-Saharan migrants approaching Gran Canaria's coast in a wooden boat on Tuesday.
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Dutch plan to place refugees on cruise ships slammed as ‘absurd’
Jul 23, 2022 12:12The Dutch government's plan to house non-Ukrainian refugees arriving in the Netherlands on floating cruise ships has sparked controversy in the European nation with critics slamming the move as “absurd.”
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Vast majority of Afghans turned away by US entry program
Apr 28, 2022 12:45The administration of President Joe Biden has denied nearly 85 percent of the applications it has processed from Afghans who want to enter the US through a program which allows for temporarily waiving immigration requirements.
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Outrage over UK’s decision to send migrants to Rwanda
Apr 19, 2022 19:34The UK has launched a plan with Rwanda to send asylum-seekers to the African nation. The UK is giving Rwanda £120m to accommodate migrants. Critics say it’s inhumane to send migrants to Rwanda. Rights organizations also say the plan will hurt asylum-seekers.
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US arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border in March, rivaling record highs
Apr 16, 2022 19:11US border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for US President Joe Biden.
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Kremlin: Russia seeks ‘more substantial’ talks with Ukraine to end conflict
Mar 22, 2022 17:06Russia says it would like to have more “substantial” talks with Kiev to end almost a month of conflict, which has so far forced more than 3.5 million people to flee Ukraine.