Faced with ever-increasing police pressure, more overcrowded boats and departures ever farther from Calais, migrants are at even greater risk of dying when attempting to cross the Channel.

In Germany, Protestant and Catholic churches, as well as Jewish communities have offered asylum to refugees for decades. But German authorities have increasingly been intervening.

A debate over deporting foreign nationals who commit serious crimes has been reignited in Germany after the fatal stabbing of a police officer in the city of Mannheim last week. The attacker was an Afghan national who had lived in G1

Desperate Syrians are weighing up whether to stay in an increasingly hostile Lebanon or risk dangers of life back in opposition-held areas of Syria. The return journey is deadly and conditions in Syria are tough.