The United Kingdom has sent the first asylum-seeker whose asylum application was denied to Rwanda through a voluntary scheme. The plan is separate from the government's forced deportation program.

At least 51 people died after their boat sank south of Spain's Canary Island El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean. Nine survivors were rescued by helicopter.

An international investigation has found that tens of thousands of unaccompanied child migrants – nearly 47 each day on average – have vanished after arriving in Europe over the past three years.

The political and institutional campaign against Syrian refugees living "illegally" in Lebanon is intensifying, amidst years of the worst financial crisis in the country's history.