France last month suspended expelling Afghan migrants whose asylum applications had been rejected, due to the deteriorating security situation in the country as the Taliban presses an offensive, the government said Thursday.
The economic crisis in Lebanon has left 120,000 migrant workers in need of humanitarian assistance to survive, according to UN migration agency IOM.
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has accussed Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko of trying to 'destabilize the EU' by letting migrants cross into Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
French maritime authorities have rescued another 108 migrants attempting to cross the Channel between Britain and France. The migrants were in four separate boats which got into trouble near the French coast.
Latvia has become the latest Baltic state to start pushing back migrants hoping to cross its border from Belarus. Dozens were turned back on Tuesday night under a new state of emergency declared by the government in Riga.