Germany: Report notes worsening situation in Iran but fails to ban deportations
A internal report by the German foreign ministry gives a bleak assessment of the situation in Iran. But it stops short of a ban on deportations.
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Two West African migrants dead, 88 rescued off Cape Verde islands
Eighty-eight people were rescued at the weekend from a small boat off Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The migrants had left Gambia more than three weeks ago. Two men died during the journey.
Several migrants found dead at Polish border, fear over rising death toll
The Polish authorities have been searching for bodies in wetlands at the Polish-Belarus border after at least three bodies of migrants were found in the last ten days. There are fears that the death toll could rise.
Geo Barents, Ocean Viking: Migrant minors to stay in Senigallia, adults in Lombardy
The prefecture of the Marches city of Ancona has decided where to house the migrants who have reached the Adriatic port city on board NGO-run migrant-rescue ships Ocean Viking and Geo Barents.
Lampedusa 'open' but 'lacks resources', mayor
Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino has told Turin daily La Stampa in an interview that the island needs aid from the government after registering nearly 3,000 migrant arrivals in the first days of January. If the current trend continue1