Tag: migration of people

Almost 965,000 migrants and refugees were registered in Germany from the start of the year to the end of November, the Interior Ministry said...

Brussels (dpa) - The European Union agreed Sunday to grant Turkey 3 billion euros (3.2-billion dollars) in refugee aid and promised to boost relations...

Seventeen migrants from South Asia were back in Indonesia after their boat was pushed back by the Australian navy while en route to Christmas...

The rapprochement between Washington and Havana has, ironically, sent a new wave of Cubans fleeting to the United States, for fear that favourable entry...

The pictures show birthday parties, family, friends and former homes. Most refugees are not able to take many personal items on their journey. The...

The US House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to require tightened checks of Syrian refugees, in the wake of last week's Paris attacks by...

Slovenia and Croatia on Thursday began playing a reverse tug-of-war with economic migrants, with Ljubljana saying it would return them to its neighbour in...

Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said on Tuesday that Croatia would stop accepting refugees if their transit towards Germany was stopped. Speaking to the press at...

First there is the life-or-death journey across the Mediterranean, then the trek through the Balkans with hopes of a fresh start in Western Europe....

Kabul (dpa) - Germany launched a campaign in Afghanistan on Sunday to deter refugees from paying criminals to organize the long and often deadly...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday stood by her decision to welcome refugees to Germany, saying in a live television interview that she would...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to answer questions about her migration policy in a televised interview Friday night, as a new poll showed...

The European Union wants to slow down the arrival of migrants from Africa, and is offering money to enlist the cooperation of African governments....

Sweden's move on Thursday to introduce temporary border controls to help manage the flow of migrants - the latest EU member to do so...

Sydney (dpa) - The two-day riot at the Australian immigration detention centre on Christmas Island has left a 10-million-Australian-dollar (7.1-million-US-dollar) bill and seven inmates...

The European Union was trying Wednesday to secure African help to control migration flows, offering in return billions of euros in development aid, at...

Germany denied on Wednesday that the government had changed its open-arms policy towards refugees with its return to the Dublin Regulation, one day after...

Sydney (dpa) - Officers have regained control of the migrant detention centre on Christmas Island, Australia's Immigration Department said Tuesday afternoon.Five inmates were injured...

Refugees who have already reached Germany may not automatically be able to have their families join them given the massive numbers of people trying...

Europe is keen in enlisting Africa's help to discourage migrants from trying to reach its shores. Dozens of leaders from the two continents are...

Slovenia is running out of patience with the European Union and is moving closer to building border fences, Prime Minister Miro Cerar said in...

On average, an asylum application in Germany takes five months to process. But not for everyone. Ali Mohamed Sharif is from Somalia and has...

Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan has temporarily suspended a 2010 agreement with European Union countries that allows them to deport its citizens entering the continent...

Thailand's Labour Ministry is seeking to reduce visa fees for Vietnamese workers to tackle a labour shortage in the country, media reports said Saturday.The...

Croatia has announced that it will increase its capacity for the temporary accommodation of refugees to 5,000 by the end of the year, the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken the lead in EU efforts to address the bloc's refugee crisis, announced plans Thursday to speed up...

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken the lead in European Union efforts to master the migration crisis, began talks Thursday on her next step...

Sydney (dpa) - Australia may take more refugees from Syria than the 12,000 extra arrivals it pledged to take in September, Immigration Minister Peter...

The flood of refugees in the eastern Aegean is not easing up. Each day, more and more people are drowning on the dangerous sea...

The first train with 1,000 refugees from the camp at Opatovac will arrive at the provisional winter transit centre for migrants at Slavonski Brod...

Athens (dpa) - More than 1,400 refugees and migrants were rescued over the past three days in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coast guard...

Wellington (dpa) - New Zealand saw record immigration in the year to the end of June, with China and India the largest source of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of her Christian Democrats' Bavarian sister party appeared on Sunday to have defused a dispute over the...

Hopes of Germany's governing coalition hammering out a new policy to better manage the unabated stream of migrants to the country seemed unrealistic Sunday...

Freital, on Dresden's south-western outskirts, has become synonymous with hatred of foreigners. But the new refugees are not the first to feel the animosity....

Chancellor Angela Merkel has called coalition party leaders to an emergency meeting on Sunday to draw up an action plan to deal with the...

Eleven people were killed and about 40 are missing after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos capsized, Greek...

Sydney (dpa) - The Australian government on Thursday rejected a report by Amnesty International that said Australian officials paid people smugglers to return asylum...

Thousands of refugees continue to stream into Germany each day, with most seeking safety from the wars gripping their homelands while hoping to find...

Croatia on Monday became the latest country to ask the European Union for material help, such as beds and tents, to cope with the...

About 10,000 refugees and migrants have entered Croatia in the last 24 hours, including about 3,000 who arrived between midnight and 9am on Monday,...

Eleven leaders from the European Union and the Balkans promised Sunday to limit the uncontrolled tide of migrants and asylum seekers flowing through their...

Gay residents in a Dresden refugee shelter have fled persecution in the Middle East only to face much of the same from fellow refugees....

Thousands of refugees kept streaming into Slovenia on Thursday, straining the small country's resources and its patience with other EU nations that have been...

Ten EU and Balkan leaders will meet in Brussels on Sunday for talks on the "unfolding emergency" as a steady surge of migrants threatens...

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of refugees congesting in Croatia because the government is operating in an organised manner...

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said in Opatovac on Tuesday that Croatia had honoured agreements with Slovenia but that migrants were met with dogs...

Sydney (dpa) - A refugee in Australia set himself on fire during a video call with supporters, out of fear of being sent back...

Several thousand refugees and migrants are on the Serbian-Croatian border between Bekasovo and Bapska and Croatian police are preventing illegal border crossing and entry...

Diplomatic tensions flared Monday amid chaos at the Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian borders as the slower intake of refugees created bottlenecks, while migrants continued...