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"We can do it" — Merkel famously told Germany when she decided to accept over a million refugees | Photo: Stefan Wermuth/ASSOCIATED PRESS/picture alliance

Germany: Former Chancellor Angela Merkel receives UN refugee rights prize

Merkel dedicated her award to the thousands of people who volunteered to welcome refugees in 2015 when Germany took in over one million people fleeing war, many from Syria.

Refugee identification of Ukrainian citizens in a school in Monza, in Lombardy | Photo: ARCHIVE/ANSA/MATTEO BAZZI

Italy: Only 20% Ukrainian refugees receive shelter in public structures

Over 150,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Italy -- the Italian administration has provided shelter for less than 20%, who were placed in hotels, shelters and supported by Italy's Civil Protection. This is according to a new report1

A group of migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, on a Border Force vessel, October 9, 2022 | Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Over 1,000 migrants cross Channel to UK

More than 1,000 people on board 25 small boats were detected in the English Channel by UK authorities on Sunday. 367 others were rescued from the Strait of Pas-de-Calais and returned to France.

Pope Francis said Scalabrini and Zatti had dedicated their lives to a Church that was inclusive and without barriers | Photo: Eric Vandeville/abacapress.com/picture alliance

Pope calls Europe's treatment of migrants 'sinful'

Pope Francis has denounced what he called Europe’s indifference to migrants who risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean, saying their exclusion was "scandalous, disgusting and sinful."

Rescuers and paramedics carry the body of an undocumented migrant at the port of Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/GIORGOS PAPADOPOULOS

Athens calls on Turkey to stop migrant departures

Greece has called on Turkey to block all boat departures of migrants from its country, due to the shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea last week in which 23 persons lost their lives.