Many of the almost 8,000 people who are believed to have died in 2025 may have done so in "invisible shipwrecks," stated the UN Migration Agency IOM on Tuesday. The most deadly migration routes were sea routes to Europe.

Greek authorities arrested a man driving a car with 11 migrants squeezed into his car this week. He was discovered at the land border with Turkey and has already been charged.

Talks are planned in Brussels between representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban government and the EU on deportations to Afghanistan, raising human rights concerns.

Since the introduction of expanded border checks in May 2025, Germany's Federal Police has prevented more than 28,000 people from entering Germany, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). Meanwhile across Europe, ch1