A young girl has died during a rescue operation to save migrants trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands in a small boat. The boat, carrying 36 migrants, drifted for more than two weeks before it was found by a merchant tanker.
More and more people are arriving in the UK on boats or are intercepted in the English Channel. At the same time, overall migration to the UK remains at a steady level. Politicians, however, are still using images of dinghies washin1
A fake website about Germany's asylum policy has attracted attention and caused some confusion. The website wrongly claims that Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced that Germany would take in refugees from camps on the Greek I1
The Italian news agency ANSA has reported that seven people, including a pregnant woman, died in a shipwreck about nine kilometers off the coast of Lampedusa. Rescuers saved 46 people after the boat overturned, the agency reported.
A prominent figure in the Algerian pro-democracy movement Hirak was found among a group of migrants on a boat heading to Spain. Chems Eddine Laalami and others on the boat were, however, intercepted by the Algerian coast guard, a ri1