In the latest discovery of migrant smuggling in Europe, police in the Czech Republic found 48 people inside a Turkish truck. The migrants reportedly said they were from Syria and on their way to Germany and the Netherlands.
A Syrian refugee in Beirut set himself ablaze outside the offices of UN refugee agency, a UN official said on Thursday. Living conditions for the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon have long been deteriorating.
Four migrants have perished in the attempt to reach Melilla, one of two tiny Spanish autonomous cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, via a sewer tunnel.
Italian police on Wednesday discovered four migrants hidden in the back of a lorry that was travelling from Slovenia to Lombardy in northern Italy. The day before a smuggler and six migrants were stopped in the Friuli Venezia Giulia1
In the wake of attacks in France and Austria, France's Macron said his country would be doubling its border guard and urged the EU to boost its own security. He warned people were using "migratory flows" for terror acts.