In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite numerous ethical and other concer1
Croatian police are hunting for an alleged people smuggler who is believed to have dumped the bodies of four migrants and abandoned dozens of others near the Slovenian border earlier this month.
On Monday, officials from the EU met with Syrian officials, including the interim Syrian foreign minister, Assad Hassan al-Sahaibani, to talk about economic support for Syria as a preliminary step toward increasing returns.
Late on Sunday, a wooden boat with 125 people on board was spotted off El Hierro. Earlier that day, a similar boat with more than 100 migrants on board was brought to port in Tenerife by Spanish rescue authorities. Another 62 migran1
Over the last two days, hundreds of migrants were rescued south of the islands of Crete and Gavdos in several different operations. Most of the migrants said they had set off from Tobruk in Libya one or two days earlier. According t1