The Tunisian authorities have said that 8,853 migrants returned to their home countries via the IOM’s voluntary return program. This was an increase of 28 percent compared to the number of voluntary returns in 2024.
One migrant has died, and six others were taken to the hospital with severe symptoms of hypothermia following the rescue of a boat carrying 143 people off the Canary Islands.
An 18-year-old Afghan migrant is the first person to be charged with endangering others during a sea crossing to the UK. He was charged on January 5, the same day the new law came into force and appeared in court on Wednesday.
After weeks spent sleeping rough, the 24 young asylum seekers currently in L'Aquila were accommodated during the night between January 7 and 8 in a temporary dormitory set up inside a charity-run soup kitchen. The group was given sh1
A Turkish national identified by the UK’s National Crime Agency as a major supplier of boats and engines used in English Channel migrant crossings has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined 400,000 euros by a Belgian court.1