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File photo used for illustration: The far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party has been trying to capitalize on anti-migrant attitudes among German voters | Photo: Hans P. Albert/dpa/picture-alliance
Tunisian national guard members recover a drowned body during a search operation after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the country's southeastern coast, near Zarzis, Tunisia, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Bassem Aouini)
A plane takes off at Halle/Leipzig Airport. 23 Afghan men were deported using a charter flight, August 25, 2026 | Photo: picture-alliance

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Migrants wait in line for food and other humanitarian aid, Ceuta, Spain, August 27, 2026 | Photo: picture-alliance
Five men were kidnapped in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on August 26 | Photo: Picture-alliance/dpa/K.Sulejmanovic
The SOS Humanity 2 was a former yacht converted to search and rescue vessel in response to the severe lack of rescue capacity in the Central Mediterranean | Photo: Paula Gaess/SOS Humanity

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Police stand guard as migrants gather near a makeshift beach camp to be relocated to official shelters across the city after authorities cleared the site, following a mass crossing from Morocco, in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, August 20, 2026 | Photo: REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Arriving in Britain is only the first step for many asylum seekers; the Home Office explains that integrating into the UK means understanding how to act and behave | Photo: May James/ZUMAPRESS/picture alliance
This handout photograph released on August 10, 2026, by the Berck sur Mer branch of French volunteer sea rescue organisation Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) shows migrants on a dinghy attempting to cross the English Channel off the coast between Berck and
Merlimont, northern France | Photo: Handout SNMS Berck sur Mer / AFP