More Afghan women are being granted refugee status in Germany in light of the Taliban's relentless efforts to curb their freedoms and erase them from public and social life.
Marius Mihai Draghici was reportedly part of an international human smuggling ring that profited from trafficking people across Europe's borders. Draghici is the fifth man to be sentenced in a case that sparked widespread outrage.
The Greek coast guard has posted a video of a rescue operation it said took place during the night of July 9-10. During the incident, 111 migrants were found crouched on cliffs after disembarking a sailing boat in southern Greece.
The humanitarian group SOS Mediterranée says that a Libyan patrol boat fired several shots at the Ocean Viking's speed boats during a rescue operation in international waters. This is not the first time that such an incident has occ1
Italy, Slovenia and Croatia on July 10 pledged to fight migrant trafficking and transnational organized crime at a trilateral meeting in the central Italian city of Ancona.